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Welcome To The Algorithmic Memory Hole
The Revolutionary Act ^ | 07/01/19

Posted on 07/01/2019 9:21:04 AM PDT by Liberty7732

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” George Orwell, 1984

The algorithmic Memory Hole has arrived.

In doing some research recently, I found that I could no longer quickly locate items on Google that were at the top of the first page in the past year or so. These topics, such as the Obama administration keeping children separate from adults, are almost impossible to locate now. Articles “debunking” Obama’s policies being similar to Trump’s are everywhere.

And when looking for a current news item, I got a litany of first-tier and second-tier news and commentary outlets, all on the left, such as CNN (frequently the first option on news) the New York Times, Slate, Salon, BBC, London Guardian and so on — page after page and some repeated several times, before getting to even one on the right, usually Fox News.

I’m a reasonably advanced searcher. I was using the concept of Boolean string searches before Google. So I understand at 30,000 feet how their algorithm works. And yet I cannot find items at all that I previously found quickly.

There’s a good reason for this and you probably know what it is: They have changed their algorithm to emphasize “trusted” sources, by which they mean left-wing sources that reflect Google’s leftwing worldview.

There was last week’s news from Veritas interviewing whistleblowers at Google and leaking documents showing that Google is intent on not letting another Trump ever happen again. We know they’ve been placing their thumbs the scales for awhile, but this is a whole new level.

If you search “google whistleblower” you get all the appropriate results. Today. But what will be the results in six months or a year? Will you get the Daily Wire, Newsmax, the Spectator? Will you find Dave Rubin’s take? Or will it be Slate and Salon and CNN spinning Veritas as acting illegally and using controversial methods? Methinks think the latter.

And I realized with sudden clarity that here sat before me what we all have been reading about, but in an entirely new light: This is the algorithmic version of the Memory Hole made infamous in George Orwell’s dystopian 1984 novel. This is the modern step in how you erase history and alter people’s opinions in real time. Eventually, many things will just never have happened.

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” George Orwell, 1984

Google employees become a little army of Winston Smiths coding away to fill up the memory hole.

They are not alone, of course. The social media giants of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (owned by Facebook) Pinterest and Youtube (owned by Google) have all been squeezing out conservatives through shadow-banning, demonetizing, de-platforming and outright banning. It’s not just whackadoodles like Alex Jones. When it gets to comedians like Steven Crowder who was actually trying to follow all of Youtube’s rules and the mainstream pro-life outfit Live Action, you know the digital noose is tightening.

Free Market Health Care PAC The Revolutionary Act supports the work of the Free Market Health Care PAC Banks and credit card companies have begun closing the accounts of people based on those people’s opinion. It starts with the awful Proud Boys group and the neo-Nazi Stormfront site, but it never stops there.

Here’s my prediction on the final step, which may start before 2020 or after, but it sure feels as though it will eventually happen.

Once the noose has been tightened around conservatives, forcing them off social media and onto only their own websites, WordPress, Godaddy and other web hosting sites will eventually just start pulling the plug because of offensive this and offensive that.

And then they will have totally shut up conservative voices, and we will have a totalitarian leftist country.

But it won’t end there. Not really. Heed the wise words of Martin Niemoller:

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

In the end, as in 1984, liberals and progressives will also become the victims, because only the state will matter. They think that is what they want. They don’t.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: antifa; facebook; fascistbook; google; internet; markzuckerberg; media; news; projectveritas; technotyranny; twitter; youtube; zuckerberg

1 posted on 07/01/2019 9:21:04 AM PDT by Liberty7732
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To: Liberty7732

I’ve had this problem for a while. I’ll see a new video come up on my phone and type the exact title into my desktop computer and it is not in the first page of hits. It should be on top. For recent stories it’s easy, just search today or the last week. But for older stuff it’s more difficult. Quotes can work, but not always.


2 posted on 07/01/2019 9:23:47 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Liberty7732

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” George Orwell, 1984

“Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished?”

1984 by George Orwell
Home Literature 1984 Characters Winston Smith

“Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, and every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day-by-day and minute-by-minute. History has stopped.

Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don’t know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories.

Just in that one instance, in my whole life, I did possess actual concrete evidence after the event – years after it.” (2.5.14, Winston to Julia)

https://www.shmoop.com/1984/winston-smith-quotes-2.html


3 posted on 07/01/2019 9:24:32 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (KAG! Keep America Great! Vote for President Trump in 2020! KAG! Keep America Great. Again!)
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To: Liberty7732

Al Gore’s ‘Carbon Taxes’ are an algor-ithmic money hole


4 posted on 07/01/2019 9:26:46 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Liberty7732

“on Google that were at the top of the first page in the past year or so.”

I still clearly recall, that Wayback When, if I googled the word ‘failure’ the first item listd was G.W.Bush ! Googlers,google has only gotten worse.....


5 posted on 07/01/2019 9:29:46 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: cuban leaf

Youtube (Google) will bury results even when you type in an exact title of a video.
Sometimes 3-4 pages deep behind stuff that is no where near a match.


6 posted on 07/01/2019 9:34:31 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Liberty7732

It starts with the awful Proud Boys group
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I don’t see them as awful. They are standing up for American values against communists.

Then again I don’t swallow the narrative from the Ministry of Propaganda.


7 posted on 07/01/2019 9:37:30 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I’m wondering if it’s a marketing ploy, just to get you to see similar stuff and maybe click on it. I say that because often it’s not even something controversial.


8 posted on 07/01/2019 9:45:01 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Liberty7732

There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that google and all the other internet giants are using their power to change our perception of history.

“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” - Orwell.


9 posted on 07/01/2019 10:06:39 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Liberty7732

This a slightly different take on the algorithm issue, but I just did an experiment. I keyed the phrase “white families” into Google, and 10 of the first 22 images showed black families or interracial families. I keyed the phrase “black families” into Google, and all 20 of the first images were of black families.


10 posted on 07/01/2019 10:28:28 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Grampa Dave

The Internet bubble has been real for a long time. First time duckduckgo showed up, the anecdote went something like this...

‘... searcher on the west and east coasts put in the same text into giggle or boing or yahooey. Two different folks, so two different search history, tracking, different ‘folks.’

Results from the two searches completely different in priority and even content.

Good case for duckduckgo or some other non-linked, no history saving search engine.

Might even be a case for a VPN suite if it weren’t for the bouncing through foreign countries......

Interesting times.....

KYPD


11 posted on 07/01/2019 10:46:01 AM PDT by petro45acp (See: "THE LAST CENTURION" by John Ringo to see how bad things could be...)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Interesting. Google returned about seven
out of ten ‘white families’ images as white.
The first displayed was all black, though.
Googling ‘black families’ gave ten for ten black.

Using DuckDuckGo, ‘White families’ was nine for ten white.
Blacks were ten for ten black.


12 posted on 07/01/2019 10:46:28 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Liberty7732

History starts new each morning. Same thing. Subjective reality to go along with relativistic ethics.


13 posted on 07/01/2019 10:53:06 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Liberty7732
"Here’s my prediction on the final step, which may start before 2020 or after, but it sure feels as though it will eventually happen. Once the noose has been tightened around conservatives, forcing them off social media and onto only their own websites, WordPress, Godaddy and other web hosting sites will eventually just start pulling the plug because of offensive this and offensive that. And then they will have totally shut up conservative voices, and we will have a totalitarian leftist country."

Then the real fun starts when 99% of democrats learn that they ARE NOT the 1% of The Party who get to lead oppulent lives of luxury while looking down on the peasants.

How shocked and angry they will be to learn they are assigned to the rank of the little people.

And as the economy collapses and they start fighting each other over whatever edible garbage and sewer water they can find, they will be even more angry.

Then again, that's if they are still around -depends on if the 1% resorts to Stalin tactics or not. He (Stalin) knew that his most dangerous enemies were the disillusioned (i.e. 99% of Comunists who thought the were in the 1%). So of course he had them all shot (Makes sense in a horrible way.).

And finally- Besides turning the country into a totalitarian nightmare- They will also have killed the golden goose- the greatest economy in the world.

The end results of Marxism are evident from history, or in any area of the United States where democrats are in control. They are all high tax, high cost, deteriorating, decaying, trash filled, poo covered, places of misery that people are fleeing from in droves.

These tech giants made their billions in a free Capitalist America.

They are actively trying to destroy it?

WTH is WRONG with them?!

14 posted on 07/01/2019 12:32:46 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait.)
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To: Liberty7732

“First they came for .... - but we knew what they were up to, and we came for them first.”


15 posted on 07/01/2019 1:01:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Liberty7732

Excellent article!

I bet you’re right that after the media giants hide news they don’t like, then Godaddy, Wordpress, Paypal, etc. will refuse service to customers based on what they call “hate” speech.


16 posted on 07/01/2019 1:42:33 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and our forests!)
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To: Liberty7732

Excellent article!

I bet you’re right that after the media giants hide news they don’t like, then Godaddy, Wordpress, Paypal, etc. will refuse service to customers based on what they call “hate” speech.


17 posted on 07/01/2019 1:43:15 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and our forests!)
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