Posted on 10/28/2015 10:53:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Basically, google's full of crap. Apparently, they have two issues with FR. One is that a user (a long-time user not a hacker) posted a link to an image that (unknown to him) resides on a site google has registered in their database as a malware site. We've pulled the post and notified google. Have no idea when they'll stop flagging us.
The other is that we have links to aim.org. NSS! Aim (Accuracy in Media) is a well known conservative site. Have no idea how many, but I'm sure we've had hundreds or even thousands of links posted to aim.org. We're not going to pull them.
Why google is apparently randomly flagging unrelated threads on FR I have no idea. Your guess is good as mine.
But it's not just google Chrome. Any browser that relies on google's database is doing this.
If you want to stop these erroneous and obnoxious warning messages immediately, you can set a browser option to ignore such warnings. Your virus protection software will catch any real viruses.
Thank you all very much for notifying me. I've received dozens and dozens of these already. Sorry, cannot answer each one individually.
I believe that is correct. There was much discussion of Google's motto "Don't be evil" back when Google did it.
In my opinion, Google is now the most evil corporation in existence.
Which is exactly what the ransomware slime want. "This is the FBI. You have been found entering forbidden sites. Your files are all encrypted. Send $200 by PayPal to get them unlocked."
You have an interesting post history Desert rose2003.
Yes. But if you clear your cookies or history or cache (I am not sure which did it) they will be back and you'll have to click it again.
Yeah, I noticed that. I am going to try different browsers on my MacBook: Opera, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. This is bullshit!
bfl
Although I concur with the fact that it is an abuse of “our” (scare quotes to be explained) First Amendment rights, IMHO “speech” is really a figure of speech in this, and many other, cases. Even SCOTUS uses (IMHO abuses it.Nobody is interfering with your ability to talk. You aren’t insisting on your right to talk. The true issue is the use of technical means of communication. “The press” was the only technical means of communication in common use in the founding era when the First Amendment was written and ratified. Now there other, far more sophisticated, means of doing so. Telegraph, telephone, radio, TV, Internet - and, like the printing press, all requiring money to set up and operate (and, unlike the press, all requiring equipment to receive). Is it legitimate to extend the meaning of “the press” to the other technical means? Yes, because the Framers/ratifiers also gave us
. . . which means that improvements in the means of communication cannot be taken as a surprise in principle to the Framers/ratifiers of the First Amendment. In addition, the Ninth Amendment codifies the historical fact that the Framers of the original document left out a bill of rights because they wanted and expected everything not specifically granted to the government to be left as was, not affected by the new Constitution. Finally, the prohibition of titles of nobility (and the implication of the First Amendment of no established priesthood) means that if anybody has a right to put up a web site then we all do.
- Article 1 Section 8.:
- The Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . . .
Finally, it is not “our” freedom of the press which is being abused - it is only that of Jim Robinson. He is the one with the web site; he is the one who is in charge of what is and is not published in it. We may donate to it, but it is his. We post to it, at his pleasure. We have no recourse if he pulls our post or even bans us altogether. We would find another web site, or create our own, if we didn’t like that. But, Thanks Jim, we do like it.
I don’t know if this applies to you, but note that different web browsers will default to different search engines.
I contacted the owners and they verified they have been receiving a lot of these attacks of falsely being reported as abusive, despite having been verified by numerous third parties that their website contains no malware. Google is apparently falling for the censorship of anti Christian bias. If they aren't complicit in this then they need to be a little more proactive about these frivolous complaints by people with an agenda. And these other browsers ought not to be so trusting of Google. Time to start using Bing or some other search engine. It's still a sort of free internet after all. But the clock is certainly ticking.
Thank you so much, Jim. It’s been very difficult for me to post the last couple of days.
Is it getting better today? I’m not getting near as many warnings now. Maybe 1 or 2 per hour. Yesterday it was like 1 out of ever 4 clicks.
to wit, I recommend FR threads often to non-FR people, some threads have been safe and static for months. Now they are marked as dangerous.
Some of our threads finish high on google (first in at least one very important case).. now after months and months safe and static they are marked as dangerous.
That's were the advice to sue (elsewhere on this thread) ought to be given serious consideration. You can not sabotage the owners' financial well-being.
I can’t use half of my options. For example, I can’t click on the post number or the “back” arrow. Once the message is there, I can’t get out of it. I have to open up FR in another tab. I can’t go to the next page of a thread.
My husband tried to follow your instructions to fix it just a short time ago, and I am hoping that works.
Thanks, Jim.
StopBadware.org is run by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Oxford University's Internet Institute, and vendor partners such as Google, Sun Microsystems, and Lenovo.
According to an entry in StopBadware.org's question-and-answer page, Google decides whether to flag a Web site based on its own independent scans of the Internet.
Harvard, google, Lenovo (ain't that Red China?)
Harvard? Cass Sunstein works there and is a big time critic of Free Republic and has written often of the problems sites like FR cause.
Can you recommend a good - and fair - search engine ?
Thanks....just did it. Hope it works.
Testing.
Worked okay with Pale Moon.
I agree wholeheartedly !!
When Googlie was using U.S. Government discounted fuel for three years for corporate officer's travel
and there was never an attempt by the government to correct this transgression
that told me all that I needed to know about the relationship between Googlie and the FED.
That was no 'oversight' , but was rather purposefull and intentional on the governements behalf.
Truth be known , I trust illegal actions by NSA more than I do Googlie (or Googliemail, et all )!
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