Google blocks anti-communist web sites in the USA.

The Peoples Cube - web site (via LGF blog) ^ | March 10, 2006 | Red Square

[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:

[metesky]

Goggle has apparently relented.

[Beckwith]

I Googled both and the results were what one would expect.

Free Republic came up #1 and Wikipedia's "Free Republic" cam up #3 or 4.

Jim Robinson's About page on Free Republic came up #4.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Once they get you hooked and dependent.....you're under their control.

I've stopped using Google.......

watch the stock keep slipping away.

[Beckwith]

In 2004, Al Gore announced the first national network created by, for and with an 18-34 year-old audience. Its mission is to serve as a TV platform where the voices of young adults can be heard. The network will invite audiences to move beyond their roles as viewers to become active collaborators. Its programming will consist of 15-second to five-minute segments relating to pressing issues such as the environment, relationships, spirituality, finance, politics and parenting. Production facilities will be located in San Francisco.

Google's co-founder and president of Technology, Sergey Brin, said, "We're pleased to collaborate with the entire Current team." The new network has even adopted Google's "Current" monicker.

Among those most intimately involved with the project are a veritable who's who of super-connected Democratic donors and operatives, from INdTV's board of directors on down. Besides Gore and Hyatt, those directors include San Francisco investment banker Richard Blum, the husband of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein; Ron Burkle, the billionaire Los Angeles investment banker and Democratic megadonor; and Ed Renwick, a partner in Burkle's investment firm. (That firm, Yucaipa Companies, claims former President Bill Clinton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson among its directors.)

[Wiz]

Just give the site several domain names and counter the censorship. Also create redirects and other methods that will allow to fool Google.

[Uncle Jaque]

Thanks for the link to CLUSTY.com - Added to bookmarks, and I figured out how to remove Google search window from my Netscape 8.1 "functional" toolbar.

I've been boycotting Google ever since they started selling out Chinese Christians and dissidents anyhow.

We may be sure that with all of the $$ Google is getting from selling the Chinese wayward out to the Chicom Gestappo and probably the involuntary organ doner bank as well, they won't miss our patronage a bit, will they?

But how long will it be before some of the major ISPs or browsers here in the so-called "Free World" start blocking "politically incorrect" sites.... like, oh, this one, for example?

As long as places like DU and moveon.org continue to exist, they probably won't take the internet down entirely, but I do expect them to continue to at least try to selectively control it's content.

After all, the foundational credo of the Communist seems to be;

"If we can't CONTROL it/him/her, then it/he/she must be DESTROYED!"

When it comes to taking over and controlling key societal institutions, the left sure knows what they are about.
Consider, for example, the popular press, Academia, most labor Unions (particularly the so-called "Teacher's" Union) and about half (at least) of the nominally "christian" Churches.

Oh; did I mention the ACLU and the AARP? Surely you can fill up a page with the others.

A prime example of the "control or destroy" credo might be the Boy Scouts of America.

When the BSA resisted being infiltrated (with the probable intention of taking them over too) by Soddomites, the ACLU promptly began persecuting them, suing to get them kicked off of government land and out of public facilities.

As far as I know the Boy Scouts are surviving, but it's a constant battle.

Perhaps you've noticed one way that the left can destroy you; they keep filing lawsuits until you go bankrupt defending yourself in court, regardless of any merit the litigation might have.

Awfully clever of them, don't you think?

The Salvation Army, God bless 'em, has also resisted manipulative overtures from anti-Semetic/Christian collectivists, and it has cost them dearly.

Not to be "paranoid" here, but...

With the GOP in such contentious disarray, we may well end up with Queen Hillary in the White Palace in a couple of years. Unless, that is, she can pull off a coup sooner

And in case you havn't noticed, said coup is well under way.
She's not doing it with armed factions, but with an army of slick leftist LAWYERS and bought-&-paid-for Judges.

Just ask Tom DeLay.

Imagine the Federal Communications Commision under her rule.
Do you suppose that Radio networks who carry Conservative Talk Show Hosts are going to have their licenses renewed?

Scared yet? **{8^H~

The time for us to figure out some internet "workarounds" for such selective censorship and internet blockades may well be... well; how's "yesterday" sound?

[King Prout]

relented?
when?
as of 50minutes ago, they hadn't

[Uncle Jaque]

"Kill a Commie" may have some meritorious sentiments, we suppose, but musically, IMHO, the "Dead Monkeys" are bloody awful.

Has anyone with actual talent ever recorded it?

[Zon]

And, because of factual reporting of Google's assinine ChiCom sycophancy, FReepers and other conservative groups can give back far more than Google ever gave.59

Considering how many businesses and persons have net benefited from Google compared to how many businesses and people have net benefited from FreeRepublic I find your comment ignorant at best. Google has their foot in the door in China. Google has the potential to create several magnitude more value than FreeRepublic. How much inroad has FreeRepublic made into China?

moreover, Google is a traded stock...
we are not obliged to like Google's actions, and we are not obliged to avoid harming Google's stock value as an expression of our displeasure.

You are aware, are you not, that I never said you had to like it? You are aware, are you not,  that I never said you should help or hinder Goggle's stock price?

free markets and public opinion, baby!

What's the traded stock price of FreeRepublic? I wonder what the fare market value of FreeRepublic is -- what would be the highest bid? How many people have heard of FreeRepublic compared to how many people have heard of Google?

[bad company]

tag

[agere_contra]

I've used Clusty for months now - on the advice of a freeper. Maybe it was you!

[King Prout]

you are being stupid.
how many conservatives found the Cube via Google?
how many conservatives could find the Cube via FR.

seriously, Zon: duh.

[metesky]

I typed the URL into Google and it delivered me right to the site, no problem. I'll try it again right now.

Worked like a charm...

[King Prout]

odd. my results just now:

Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.thepeoplescube.com

Find web pages from the site www.thepeoplescube.com
Find web pages that contain the term "www.thepeoplescube.com"

[King Prout]

and:

Tip: Save time by hitting the return key instead of clicking on "search"


Sorry, no information is available for the URL thepeoplescube.com

Find web pages from the site thepeoplescube.com
Find web pages that contain the term "thepeoplescube.com"

[King Prout]

and:

Your search - site:thepeoplescube.com - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:
Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
Try different keywords.
Try more general keywords.

[metesky]

Leave the "www" off and just type: thepeoplescube.com and it works... for me anyway.

[King Prout]

and, using the FULL URL:
Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.thepeoplescube.com

Find web pages from the site www.thepeoplescube.com
Find web pages that contain the term "www.thepeoplescube.com"

[King Prout]

did that, here's the (same) result:
Sorry, no information is available for the URL thepeoplescube.com

Find web pages from the site thepeoplescube.com
Find web pages that contain the term "thepeoplescube.com"


now, all these are new, ie - different from 5am
someone's doing something over there