Posted on 07/15/2008 8:55:53 AM PDT by Zakeet
Some bloggers opposed to Barack Obama say they suspect Obama's supporters — with the assistance of Google — may have tried to censor them when the Internet giant froze their Web sites for five days last month.
Seven blogs run by Democrats who oppose Obama’s nomination for the presidency were incorrectly flagged as spam sites by Blogger, the hosting service Google has owned since 2003. Google says it was an automated response from a spam filter.
But the bloggers believe that Web surfers who support Obama took advantage of a loophole in Blogger’s system that allows readers to report spam blogs, the artificial Web sites that abound on the Internet and are used to promote other sites.
"It appears that [Blogger's] policy can be manipulated by people determined to shut down the free exchange of ideas," said Carissa Snedeker, whose blog, BlueLyon, was among those that were frozen.
"It’s unusual — I’ve never heard of similar blogs of the same nature being shut down like that," said Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of the tech site SearchEngineLand.com.
Google said in a press release that the blogs were blocked because an automatic spam filter had locked on to those seven Web sites.
"We believe this may have been caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the ‘Just Say No Deal’ network of [anti-Obama] blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam," Google wrote, referring to a coalition of disaffected Democrats who oppose Obama's candidacy.
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Google and Al Gore are partners in the Current Network (TV).
“No results were found for the search term obama birth certificate.
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Eight (8)! hits TOTAL on Clusty.
EIGHT!!!
Google is run by leftists and they have about as much belief in free speech as any other leftists.
Just reported 30,800 hits.
Down the memory hole...
As the gun banning folks say....Founding fathers could not have envisioned a 50cal BMG, so we must ban them....
I say, as the founding fathers could not have envisioned computers, we must ban them/sarc .....A TV? Ban them..... A national newspaper? Ban them...
I may have to try it.
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