Posted on 03/29/2024 5:57:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Big Tech monopoly finally reveals why it’s censoring Front Page Magazine.
When Front Page Magazine applied to join Google’s AdSense advertising program, we were turned down. Since Google, like other Big Tech monopolies, has censored and deplatformed us in the past, we weren’t too shocked. But this time, Google told us why we had been banned.
Usually Big Tech monopolies censor, shadowban and deplatform you without telling you why.
But the Google AdSense rejection told us what we could do to make our way into the good graces of the company that dominates online search and advertising, controlling what much of the country and the world sees. All we had to do was stop talking about Islamic terrorism.
According to Google AdSense, our “entire site” contained “dangerous or derogatory content”, as did David Horowitz’s writing in particular, but one of the sample pages that the company claimed contained forbidden content was an article about the San Bernardino Muslim terrorist attack.
The article, “Remember The San Bernardino Fourteen” by Lloyd Billingsley, like a lot of our articles, is blocked in Google Search. The Front Page article doesn’t come up when you type in its name. It doesn’t even appear when you do a site search for the exact title in quotation marks that has been entirely limited to the Front Page Magazine site. That means that Google likely specifically excluded it. And it’s far from the only one of our articles banned by Google.
It’s an extraordinary act of censorship for a company that claims to want to collect all the information in the world and make it easily available for everyone to find. But it’s also a silent act of suppression that is hard to confirm and easy to blame on technical factors or errors.
But now here it was, Google flagging “Remember The San Bernardino Fourteen” as “dangerous” and “derogatory” content, not to mention guilty of “unreliable and harmful claims”.
What’s dangerous, unreliable and harmful about “Remember The San Bernardino Fourteen”?
Published on Dec 3, 2021, around the anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attack, it contains fairly little editorial commentary and a great deal of uncomfortable facts.
Lloyd Billingsley starts by documenting how “Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik drove up to the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, and began firing automatic rifles.” He names the victims, describes the bombs and quotes Kamala Harris, then attorney general, defending Islam and excusing Islamic terrorism, as she would go on to do after the Islamic terrorist attacks of Oct 7, while promoting CAIR and other Islamist terror friendly groups.
Billingsley’s article laid out the complicity of other family members of the Muslim terrorists in the attack, and the silence of Biden and Kamala about Islamic terrorism, and closed by urging, “remember the 14 innocents murdered by Islamic terrorists Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik on December 2, 2015, in San Bernardino, California, USA.”
Google would rather that you not remember the 14 victims or the Islamic terrorists who killed them. It has told us that we “must fix” this and numberless other articles that it objects to. But what would it like us to “fix” here? What else except the truth about Islamic terrorism.
The Big Tech’s ‘Dangerous and Derogatory’ content policy has previously cast a wide net, banning Martin Luther King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” at one point because the civil rights leader had used the “n word” in the letter and also banning skin lightening products because they “imply the superiority of one skin tone over another.”
Conservative sites had previously been forced to dump their comments sections to appease Google AdSense, but we will not self-censor or compromise to appease the Big Tech giant.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center has always spoken out for what we believe in. And that’s not about to change. In a time of severe financial challenges, it would be easier for us to go along. And it would have been easier for us to bow to the IRS when it came after us for writing about Hillary Clinton’s emails than to spend 5 years resisting because we believe that our journalism is legitimate and important, not something to be ashamed of and apologized for.
We know what Google’s politics are.
We remember the Google employees crying publicly when Trump won. We know that Google employees funneled $21 million to Democrats in 2020. And we know a lot of that money went to Biden. And we know that this time around, they’ve already pumped in nearly $300,000 into the Biden campaign, over $400,000 to Democratic congressional campaign committees, $174,000 to the DNC and another fortune to leftist extremists like Silicon Valley’s Rep. Ro Khanna.
A few years after the San Bernardino terror attack, Imam Omar Suleiman, who had called for a Caliphate, defended Muslim sex slavery, described Jews as “apes and pigs”, and prayed, “we ask Allah to humiliate this Israel”, had demanded that Google ban “Islamophobia” from its search engine.
And Google complied.
After I tweeted that, “Google just erased my Sultan Knish blog and Front Page Mag articles from the first pages of results for my name doubt very much this is accidental”, Robert Spencer wrote that, “I checked for myself, and sure enough: a Google search for ‘Robert Spencer’ now does not bring up Jihad Watch, where most of my writing outside of books has been published for the last seventeen years, but it does give you defamatory and distorted attack pieces from the far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center and the Saudi-funded Bridge Initiative, and nothing that doesn’t portray me and my work in the most unfavorable possible light.”
Google has been purging us for political dissent for at least 5 years. So we’re not surprised by what happened, but we are determined to continue fighting for the truth at all costs.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center is dealing with some very challenging times because we held fast to our principles. Facing a financial crunch, we looked at AdSense as an option, but we won’t compromise our belief in the truth in exchange for Google’s money. As we struggle to navigate the high legal cost of fighting the IRS, we are exploring every possible option.
But we’ll do it while holding on to our traditional commitment to fighting for what’s right.
Who is surprised that Gurgle would do this?
Daniel Greenfield ping
So the Gurgles have gone over to the Terrorist side now, huh? Figures.
The Israelis project freedom. Islam projects forced subjugation and violence. I’m not surprised by which one our government has chosen to support.
FU Google.
As far as Giggle is concerned, it didn’t happen.
Excellent range fodder. Thanks for the image.
It’s very sad. I remember when I could find anything I wanted to find on Google. I know of stories I’ve read in the past and tried to search for later only to get totally irrelevant results or even results asserting the opposite of what I looked for. They definitely censor stories. I am surprised, but only because I remember when they were focused on quality of results. Now they are something else. Maybe drunk with power, or a tool of larger powers, political animals, beholden to big contracts… who knows.
It’s time for something else to take their place. Maybe AI will do a better job. I’ve been playing with Cortana and other AI for some things - not for search so much, but for giving me ideas or improving things I’ve already started. And I don’t use the results they give exactly (I don’t plagiarize) I take what it gives me to spur on new ideas and send me in new directions. One AI answer gives me an idea to search for another answer or explore a detail or tangent further. Sometimes it just gives me a better word, which is an improvement. But it doesn’t replace search for me (maybe it will) and I don’t have faith it will be any better when it comes to neutral service.
And it’s time to break Google up. Definitely strip their ad business from their other businesses. Maybe spin off their data center business off too.
But the Google AdSense rejection told us what we could do to make our way into the good graces of the company that dominates online search and advertising, controlling what much of the country and the world sees. All we had to do was stop talking about Islamic terrorism.
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Thanks for the ping.
The Browns are no less racist than any other Color.
I use Bing and https://www.perplexity.ai/
What makes you think that Microsoft is better than Google?
Test out Bing yourself. I got rid of Google search 5 years ago. Though I use it now and then for a difficult search/ I use three diff browsers and they are all on Bing search
Here Bing search is coming up with what goo goo hides>>>>>>>
GooGoo might be the best search, but Bing is now 90% as good. And non-political as far as searches.
Bonus ****** Try is AI search which is my favorite https://www.perplexity.ai/
Microsoft just brought in a super AI man to run Bing
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https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/03/19/mustafa-suleyman-deepmind-and-inflection-co-founder-joins-microsoft-to-lead-copilot/
The Islamofascists of "google" cannot stop the TRUTH !
Biden and the DNC Michigan Idiots support them! Thats the truth!
No way that Islam and its animals are going to run America. NO WAY!
Boston Marathon:
October 7th
HAMAS hostage rape:
"Muhammad would constantly ask about her period, inquiring if she was bleeding, if she had washed herself since, and when it would end, she added.
Sometime around October 24, Muhammad forced her to commit a sex act on him, Soussana said.
On that morning, he unlocked the chain around her ankle so that she could wash herself in the bathtub, she said, adding that after she began, Muhammad returned with a pistol.
“He came toward me and shoved the gun at my forehead,” Soussana said.
Muhammad hit her repeatedly to force her to take her towel off. After she did, Muhammad groped her before continuing to hit her.
Afterward, he dragged her back to the child’s room at gunpoint. The room was covered in images of SpongeBob Squarepants, she said.
“Then, with the gun pointed at me, [he] forced me to commit a sexual act on him,” Soussana said. After it was over, Muhammad left the room to wash up and left Soussana naked in the dark.
When he returned, she said, he expressed remorse, telling her, “I’m bad. I’m bad. Please don’t tell Israel.”
Soussana also recounted her moral quandary of accepting food from her abuser.
“You can’t stand looking at him, but you have to,” she told the Times. “He’s the one who’s protecting you. He’s your guard. You’re there with him, and you know that at any moment it can happen again. You’re completely dependent on him.”
Soussana then discussed her second captor, Amir, after she was transferred to a different location. On the day that she arrived at the new apartment, the Hamas terrorists wrapped her head in a pink shirt, forced her onto the floor, handcuffed her, and beat her with the butt of a gun, she said.
Minutes after that, they suspended her “like a chicken on a stick, suspended between two couches.” She recalled that she felt that her hands would be dislocated due to the intensity of the pain.
While suspended, her new captors beat and kicked her, focusing on the soles of her feet while demanding information that she might have had about the enemy.
After that, she was untied and led to a new bedroom, where they told her she had 40 minutes to produce information or else they would kill her.
Reports of acts of sexual violence committed by Hamas have been told in second-hand accounts by women and girls who were freed in the hostage deal last November, but none have been as explicit as Soussana’s.
Many apologists have denied any reports of sexual violence committed by Hamas, saying if it took this long to bring the allegations to light, they could not be true. Sexual crimes do not always get reported, as the trauma suffered by the victims could take such a toll as to dissuade them from bringing the crimes to light, according to experts.
Many of the victims of Hamas’s sexual crimes either died in the October 7 massacre or are still held in captivity in Gaza.
Currently, there are still 19 women hostages or whose bodies are still held in Hamas captivity: Naama Levy, Shani Louk, Noa Argamani, Romi Gonen, Arbel Yehud, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Doron Steinbrecher, Maya Goren, Ofra Kedar, Inbar Haiman, Liri Albag, Daniella Gilboa, Shiri Bibas, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Emily Damari, Amit Esther Buskila, and Judy Weinstein........................"
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