? I didn't know Google censored. 'Course, they are a private company so who can complain?
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Posted on 03/21/2006 6:53:55 AM PST by RepublicNewbie
A couple of traditionalist blogs recently have encountered what may be PC, thought-police suppression.
It may be purely coincidental, but two traditionalist blogs have at roughly the same time been black-listed or threatened with disbarment from an internet service provider in what seems to be an arbitrary manner. Maybe it's paranoia, but the suspicion is unavoidable that this may be an additional liberal tactic, along with threats to bar some conservative websites for supposedly violating campaign finance laws.
Alains Newsletter was informed by Google that it would not be included in sites referenced by Google, because in Google's opinion the site publishes hate-speech. Take a look at the site yourself. I doubt that you will agree with Google. Continue reading this article below
As another blogger pointed out, Google's webcrawler trawls Al Jazeera, apparently not finding its blatant support of Al Queda's call for liquidation of the Western world to be hate-speech.
Larry Auster's View From The Right was without warning deactivated by his website host. Fortunately, as he explains, that action was reversed equally mysteriously.
VFR is back! Dear VFR readers, My hosting service, Hostic.com re-activated View from the Right at 7:56 p.m. Sunday evening March 19 after suddenly and without warning de-activating it on Friday morning March 17. As relieved as I am, the end of this Kafkaesque experience is as Kafkaesque as the beginning, because, just as the reasons for my websites being suddenly taken offline were obscure, seemingly arbitrary, and required my pushing myself against impenetrable layers of incommunicative bureaucracy to learn the truth of why this had happened and how to solve the problem, the ending is also without apparent reason.
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So, host your site on a PC in your living room. If it's only text, you can run it on business DSL for $59 a month.
A common carrier can't cut you off unless your content is illegal.
It is the left limiting exposure of the message.
The fact of the matter is that if you don't appear on Google or Yahoo your message does not exist.
yes the can be cut off. The argument was that "conservative message=hate speech=criminal act"
The issue here is IDEAS can be banned.
Google is a business, owned and operated
by private people making bit money. They
also are part and parcel a faction of the
media. Now we KNOW how the media opts to
report what it wants, slants the news the
way it wants, and actually fabricates the
news as it wants. So, how can Google be
expected to allow its postings to fall too
far from the "directed path"?
Conservatives acting like whining liberals again.
The ISP is a private business, and can refuse service to anyone. The bloggers should shop for another ISP or use their DSL/cable to host from home, and use DynDNS if they don't have a static IP address.
As far as Google, another private enterprise there, so no complaining.
The Army uses industry-standard blockers like WebSense, no conspiracy.
This is inappropriate racist usage
The sites in question are more likely being blocked as "entertainment". FR is not blocked BTW. (There'd be a mutiny!)
It would be nice to know the heuristics at work, but I guess that's a trade secret.
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