Posted on 08/14/2017 12:16:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Google has been completely biased for years. I remember searching for info on Obama and the first and often second page results would be all ‘debunking’ links. Was impossible to do opposition research using the site and that’s where most people go.
Very Orwellian. Control access to information via the gateways and doesn’t matter what conservatives say it’ll never get read.
Now YouTube ‘demonitized’ the Trump ladies videos this week and just shut down a conservative for merely discussing radial Islam.
Need to break up Google like the feds broke up AT&T.
Yes
They will just buy off the Republicans, nothing is going to happen.
At some point don’t the internet backbone companies become similar to utilities?
I agree. Regulate them or break them up. They have far too much power.
PING. Great perspective on breaking up the Internet Big Brother organizations.
Be cause we ALL know that they will then FOLLOW those; ahem; regulations.
Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.
....... The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further. The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary. Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify. In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building. As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames. What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs. There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence. |
Look for Google to be on thin ice with the Trump White House.
Or we can be the capitalists we pretend and incentavize new competitors?
I know that sounds sooooooooo wacky, right!?
As a conservative I am sort of against the concept of siccing gummint on folks. The 4chan kids have a good idea. They have some software they use against google that “clicks” on all the ads on a page many multiples of times simultaneously. This corrupts their data and as the advertisers realize the value of their product isn’t what they claim it is the value of Google goes down. If you ask me that is a pretty “free market” way of fighting back.
As far as I am concerned, the old fashioned way should work. Just don’t use google products.
Exactly. We need conservative alternatives to YouTube and Google.
Totally agree that these monopolies need to be regulated.
I think this will be a priority during Trump’s second term in office.
Meanwhile, new TV networks are being built that will compete with the fake news and will allow the voices to be heard on the Self-Reliant Right.
Watch this guy Bill Mitchell. His daily one-hour conversations with top-flight political experts are fun, informative, and pulling 50,000 to 70,000 plays a night on periscope.
This month his team is opening a TV studio in Palm Beach, close to the Southern White House.
And they are also planning a sports commentary show, girl talk show, etc. They are also organizing rallies. Just held their first one called MAGA Dixie Meetup in Atlanta this weekend (where Roger Stone attended and gave a short talk).
The cool thing about Mitchell is he’s not a pol. He’s a highly successful head hunter who really understands Trump’s genius and uses his incredible tweets to fight for We The People and the Trump agenda.
Indded, nobody cares how a weapon is wielded when they're the ones wielding it. And then it gets passed to the other side. And there is much wailing and gnashing of teetth. Too late, as the principle has been ceded.
Nice one, Elsie.
George Orwell was quite the prophet.
The leadership of these Silicon Valley companies is where the power lies. The venture capitalists who build these silicon monopolies are careful what kind of leader they back.
And the kind they like is someone ruthless who will stop at nothing to grow the enterprise. If you carve away the brain layers of these captains of the internet you’ll find there’s nothing there. No soul, no moral compass, no Higher Power.
PP, have seen some of Bill’s shows on You Tube via Roku. Impressed with what was heard Dr. Gina was a guest that evening.
Great, love Dr. Gina.
Naaah.
It's way much more fun to become what we hate what we say we hate and use the power of the state to attack our political opponents.
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