Posted on 03/12/2006 11:42:21 PM PST by Jack Black
Google has now begun censoring web results in the USA. Previously they have admitted censoring sites in China. Like the Chinese censorship the sites being cut from the search results are anti-communist.
The following letter is from the web site "The Peoples Cube Worldwide" which is a parody-of-Marxism site.
Google Purges The People's Cube Worldwide
By Red Square
3/10/2006, 10:13 pm
Open letter #2 to Google from the People's Cube (posted on Google.com Help Center at 8:30pm on March 10, 2006
Dear comrades at Google:
At some point, quite recently, our popular site "The People's Cube" (ThePeoplesCube.com) was purged from Google search results. MSN , Yahoo and other search engines still have it - but Google has erased/blocked any link to the site in its database. One can still find links to us from other sites - but not even one from Google to ThePeoplesCube.com. We tried American, French, German, British, Australian, and Russian versions of Google - they used to give us traffic only a few days ago - but all we got was the same line in various languages: Sorry, no information is available for the URL thepeoplescube.com. And if we clicked on Find web pages from the site thepeoplescube.com we got Your search - site:thepeoplescube.com - did not match any documents.
The first time we saw this line it was written in Chinese - (Chinese characters not supported in browser removed by poster for clarity - JB)
We used to look up The People's Cube for fun in the communist-censored Google China only weeks ago - and reported it on our site in a story called Google's Great Leap Forward. Of course our site was blocked by the Chinese government, with Google's consent, along with legions of other Western sites - but we couldn't imagine that only a few weeks later we would get the same results in English. The last time we checked we still lived in the United States - not China - but hey, whoever controls the information is the boss.
If it were a glitch in an algorithm it might throw our rankings back to the end of the line - but this is a total removal. We suspect it is also a deliberate removal - much in the spirit of 1984-style historical revisionism - removal of a "people's enemy" from life and history. Sergei Brin's Russian parents might tell him stories of people in Stalinist Russia disappearing, along with all their pictures and records. "Out of sight, out of mind" - translated into Russian and then back into English, the idiom turns into "invisible lunatics." That also describes The People's Cube's search results in Google.
We can only think of three reasons for this:
Google is retaliating against sites that ridiculed its Google China project.
Google has begun to implement its Google China policies in the rest of the free world.
A left-leaning Google employee who's got access to the database was suffering a nervous breakdown over the mockery of Marxism on our site, and so he or she dastardly removed/blocked The People's Cube, hoping to "improve" the public discourse by silencing the competition.
You tell me which one it is.
The People's Cube is a business corporation selling products on the Internet. A drop in traffic, caused by a malicious tempering with search results, has affected sales and that gives us grounds for you-know-what.
We'll start by posting this letter on our site and wait for your reply. We'll gladly drop the matter and similarly drop this post into the "memory hole" if we get a quick response from you and our high rankings in Google get immediately restored. An apology would be nice as well.
If you can, we'd appreciate if you pass the following word to our former compatriot Sergei Brin: "Seriozhka, konchai duraka valat' - bylo vremia kogda my toboi gordilis'!" (Sergie, stop making a fool out of yourself, we used to be proud of you!)
Keep the Cube rolling,
Comrade Red Square
APPENDIX I Screenshots of search results in Google as of 03/08/06:
I prefer DOGPILE.COM
though I think they include Google in their batch.
Hideous, and unAmerican for Google to do such traitorous things.
And they do it smiling all the way to the bank. Hideous.
One. More. Time.
Free. Republic. Has. More. Pull.
In. Conservative. Circles.
(The. Target. Audience. Of. People'sCube).
Than. Google. Does.
Moreover.
Free. Republic. CAN.
HURT. Google.
While. Raising. People'sCube's. Public. Recognition.
DUH.
Drink. Some. Coffee. Zon.
Science, albeit in the service of politics and religion, has been the handmaiden of death and destruction from the start.
From the primitive scientist who first attached a sharpened stone (obsidian) to the end of a shaft to create a thrusting or throwing weapon, through the Greeks and Romans with their formidable machines of war, right up to the modern weapons in use today, science has aided and abetted the practice of war.
Just did a search on "The People's cube" and it came up as a listed site.
We need to come up with an alternative to Google...
we can call it "FRoogle" ;)
Science, albeit in the service of politics and religion, has been the handmaiden of death and destruction from the start.
Eliminate politics and religion and what remains? Eliminate science and business and people perish or revert back to the stone age. Science and business have, much to their own detriment, served political-agenda law an religious-agenda rule. Technology, like guns, doesn't harm people, people harm people.
It is people, got that, people, in politics and religion that chose to use technology to cause death and destruction.
One. More. Time. Free. Republic. Has. More. Pull. In. Conservative. Circles.
My prediction is that Google as a business, will outlive FreeRepublic as a non business.
The vast majority of people aren't into politics, much less conservatism -- a subset of politics -- they spend little time thinking or discussing either. Barley 50% vote in the Presidential election, once every four years. Even less vote in mid-term elections every two years. The rest of the time they could careless. Though the vast majority of people do want government to protect them from terrorists and violent criminals. The vast majority of people prosper due to science and business and even more so when they spend their time pursuing those instead of politics and religion.
Voting for the lesser of evils still begets evil.
Nothing. Perhaps you don't understand the Greek word politiea.
For some reason, every time I use Clusty to find a business source, all the top hits are located in the UK. Are they a British company?
Politics and religion have caused, by far, the most death and destruction. Business and science have created the most values and easily the least bloodshed.
A war of two worlds. Value destroyers versus value producers.
When I type in "freerepublic.com" Goggle takes me directly to the "Latest Posts" page.
Using IE on Windoze98.
You sure you're not typing it in the URL address box, not in the google search box?
Don't know.
Golly gee, Mr Malusa, I ve been doing this for 16 years now, maybe I'll learn this darn stuff someday.
Business, science, politics, and religion are all civilizational tools. A tool is neither good nor bad. It only 'is'. They're all a means to an end. Nothing more. Slavery was 'just business'. Dr Mengele was a scientist. One who employs a tool, and considers not the ends to which it is being employed is an idiot (at best), and toils towards another's goals whether he intends to or not. Business and science have every bit as much power to destroy, and no more power to build than politics and religion.
DOH!
Well, I've been doing it for 25. Typing in an incomplete URL and going NOT to a search results page but to the actual URL, sounds like your typing it in the Address bar. The behavior is identical.
The Firefox toolbar behaves as if you search from the main Google page. The Google toolbar must get search results from somewhere else or they are cached differently.
Google has already come up with froogle - it's their shopping search engine... Clever though.
Business, science, politics, and religion are all civilizational tools.
Death and destruction are anticivilization. Political and religious leaders have created and perpetuated this anticivilization. They cannot cure human death. Science and business can. That is the opposite of anticivilization. It is civilization.
In just the last hundred years science and business have greatly extended human longevity. If not for politics and religion longevity would have increased further. I've never seen DuPont or similar companies wielding death and destruction. History shows death and destruction is the realm of politics and religion.
Natural death is a function of nature. Conscious man is the only entity that can interdict nature and manipulate it to benefit himself, family and humanity. Man has come a long way from inventing the wheel and starting fires. And those two he accomplished before he was conscious -- when he was bicameral man.
Slavery was 'just business'.
It's wrong and it has long ago been eliminated, for the most part anyhow.
Dr Mengele was a scientist.
Employed by politics of the day in Germany.
One who employs a tool, and considers not the ends to which it is being employed is an idiot (at best), and toils towards another's goals whether he intends to or not.
Politics and religion employee tools to cause death and destruction. They sometimes employee scientists to create weapons of mass destruction. Yet there is no XYZ scientific-company that bombs people or airline that flies planes into buildings.
Business and science have every bit as much power to destroy, and no more power to build than politics and religion.
Business and science have the power to destroy but only when their products of science and business are enlisted by government and religion do their tools destroy. Death and destruction at the behest of politics and religion.
A war of two worlds. Value destroyers versus value producers.
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