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I coined the term #GoogleGestapo and have watched with great concern as the major platforms — Amazon, Facebook, Google, MeetUp, Twitter, and YouTube particularly, have violated their commitment to Congress (the Communications Decency Act indemnifies them on content with the intent of protecting free speech).

They are all censoring individuals and manipulating information with impunity. I am especially troubled by Google Search now being worthless — a mix of paid search results having nothing to do with the focus on the search query and active manipulation of search results to both filter out what Google does NOT want you to see (e.g. praise of our President or criticism of Google), and to sway small minds in election rigging and other directions.

Continue reading “Robert Steele: Google Filtering — Should It Be Illegal?”

2020/05/072020/12/11

#UNRIG Video (14:36) #GoogleGestapo — Top IT Wizard Evaluates Google Search, Google Manipulation, Google Failure

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Interviews BY Robert, IO Impotency

2020/05/022020/05/01

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Is A Publisher — Laws That Apply to Publishers Now Apply to Google?

IO Impotency

Google: Another Glitch Down Under

DarkCyber spotted this story from ABC.net.au: ‘Publisher’ Google Ordered to Pay $40k in Damages for Defaming Melbourne Lawyer after Court Ruling. Aside from the money, the key point in the write up is the word “publisher.” I wrote Google: The Digital Gutenberg in 2008. The book is now out of print because another wonky publisher nuked itself.

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2020/04/292020/04/28

Robert Steele: GetGee as Anti-Thesis to #GoogleGestapo

Advanced Cyber/IO

As mentioned by Heather Marsh.

What is G?

G is a free and open data commons. It uses a universal database and trust network to return control of our data to the users who created it while still allowing for mass collaboration. It will allow people to easily change the applications they use to access their data and choose only the functionality they want in an application. It will allow anyone to collaborate without using the same applications. The structure is an ecosystem, anything can be replaced without destroying the whole.

Video Below the Fold

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2020/04/272020/04/26

Penguin: #GoogleGestapo – The Truth is What We Say It Is?

Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, IO Impotency, Media

Alert Reader sent in the below, which makes some important points but is not quite as effective as it might have been in making the case for Presidential engagement in truth-telling and the creation of truth as a national standard with lies to the public being a felony punishable by jail time for both those telling the lies, and those paying them.

The Missing Manual for Defending Yourself Against Deplatforming and Cancel Culture by Mark E. Jeftovic

2020/04/252020/04/24

Stephen E. Arnold: New Warning System for Detecting False Information?

IO Impotency

New Warning System For False Information

Science Magazine explores one way to fight false information in the article, “Researchers Develop Early Warning System To Fight Disinformation Online.”

The team collected over two million images and other content about the Indonesian 2019 general election from Instagram and Twitter. They discovered that there were spontaneous and coordinated campaigns on social media started to ignite violence and influence the election.

2020/04/242020/04/22

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Free Product Listings Challenge Amazon?

IO Impotency

Google Free Product Listings: A Free-for-All

The battle royale is one of the keys to Fortnite’s success. There will be one winner. Google, if the information in the article “In Major Shift, Google Shopping Opens Up to Free Product Listings” is accurate, has declared war on Amazon’s digital catalog of products. The Google-Amazon dust up will be interesting to watch.