Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood will not tolerate any form of criticism as they fear the light of truth as most feral rats do. It's sad that Google and other sites have caved in to this oppression when they could be of immense help in saving our Republic.
We, who support this website, can only hope that posting edicts are relaxed in order that important articles reach the largest audience possible.
Especially since on another site with the same rules, content from FR would be put in the same category.
The government pressure is only to erase “some” content, not all of it. We know what content they want erased.
Post the content of the take down requests and allow comments.
It's sad that Google and other sites have caved in to this oppression when they could be of immense help in saving our Republic.
Cronyism can be enormously profitable... as long as the cronies remain useful to the lord high oligarchs, of course.
It's a blog. Maybe that is a clue about why it belongs in the blog section.
The good news is there are other search engines, I never use google anymore, my current favorite search engine is ixquick.
https://ixquick.com/eng/protect-privacy.html
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Sounds like Anna, from the TV series ‘V’, about a year ago. She tells the news reporter that he can ask any question he wants as long is it doesn't cast the Visitors in a bad light. That's the Obama Admin. Remember Anita Dunn? (Mao is my favorite philosopher) She said the smartest thing the Dems did in the run up to the 2008 election was ‘manage the Media”. They are still doing it and the Media is marveling at the Admin’s ability to spin the Media. Bizarro World with a Pravda American Press.
The kids are smart enough to use proxy servers. There are plenty of young Chinese on Facebook.
The danger here is that any level of US government thinks it is OK to misuse its legal monopoly on the use of force to threaten Google. That is totalitarian thinking, and the issuers of such threats need to be identified by their communities and systematically removed from their offices.
If you run your own blog, own your domainname (don’t rent it from GoDaddy) and host it offshore.
Example: www.ccihosting.com/
You're quite the PHD indeed.
It's too bad you didn't get the memo last year:
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Nutjob conspiracy pingable?
I think we need to be careful with the words censure and erase.
Google is a company and has no obligation to index any sites.
As consumers we can visit any sites we want on the internet. Google is unable to prevent us from doing so. That’s nothing like China literally blocking sites from everyone’s access.
So google is free to include whatever sites they like in their indexing. They have a financial interest to be perceived as “objective” and include all sites, not a legal obligation.
And we consumers are free to use whatever search engines we want.
If Google were ever declared a monopoly they could lose some of their freedom to choose.
Maybe if you weren’t so arrogant as to think what you find as an important opinion so it must be everyone else’s concern you might not get your panties in a wad so easily and would be happier.
Ping
Ok, so the author has written other crazy things.
Censorship is real if more subtle. Google may not remove actual information just the search links to them. Plenty of websites get “cleaned up” when their contents draws attention. There is the “wayback machine” website which is useful but I would recommend keeping local copies of web pages, screenshots, etc. even printed hard copies.
(recently found a printed copy of the Clinton Body Count from 1993, copyrighted (?) by Linda Thompson) (no I’m not suggesting that Linda Thompson was a reliable source, more than likely a commie disinfo agent)