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Google is World Censor: check out the 9 Blacklists

Google blacklists 10,000 sites a day for various reasons, mainly for spam.²⁰ For them this includes sharing or modifying blog posts like the one below. Thousands of blogs and alternative news sites, including this one (thefreeonline) are permanently ‘deranked’ for sharing, so they only appear in Google Search if you search the exact title or URL. Many bloggers see their traffic vanish and close down.

The New Censorship How did Google become the internet’s censor and master manipulator, blocking access to millions of websites?

By Robert Epstein.. re-blogged with thanks, (illustrations etc added)

Google, Inc., isn’t just the world’s biggest purveyor of information; it is also the world’s biggest censor.

The company maintains at least nine different blacklists that impact our lives, generally without input or authority from any outside advisory group, industry association or government agency. Google is not the only company suppressing content on the internet.

Reddit has frequently been accused of banning postings on specific topics, and a recent report suggests that Facebook has been deleting conservative news stories from its newsfeed (good on em!), a practice that might have a significant effect on public opinion – even on voting. Google, though, is currently the biggest bully on the block.

Blacklist Check – Finds and Checks your IP Address? free service Check to see if an IP address is blacklisted with one of nearly seventy DNS based blacklists(DNSBL) in our database which identify sources of spam.

When Google’s employees or algorithms decide to block our access to information about a news item, political candidate or business, opinions and votes can shift, reputations can be ruined and businesses can crash and burn. Continue reading “Google is World Censor: check out the 9 Blacklists”

Spain: The ‘Podemos Plan’ CAN upset EU Austerity Agenda

There will be no revolution if the ‘far left’ Podemos can put a government together after the election. They have sold out on their already watery principles, on NATO, on the Monarchy.. etc to get power.

Plus it’s written into the Constitution that most of the budget must go to paying back the mega loans granted to keep the banks afloat.

Rising from the 15M movement, Podemos is still organised in hundreds of circles, assemblies and anti hierarchical structures

But there is room for raising cash to reverse austerity, from forcing the EU to delay defecit goals, from proposed cuts to the army, bureaucracy and police, from solidarity taxes on the rich and banks, from a crackdown on corruption and from increased revenue from the ‘recovery’, etc.

The ‘Podemos Plan’ , for all its faults, (see below) reverses austerity and could bring back hope to Europe.

Spain: Can left’s economic plan reverse austerity?

By Dick Nichols, Barcelona

United We Can.

United We Can — the united ticket made up of Podemos, the United Left, the green party Equo and three broader alliances in Catalonia, Galicia and the Valencian Country — is campaigning in the June 26 Spanish general elections on a plan to reverse economic austerity.

Is the new alliance’s plan up to the huge job? What chances of success can it have against the opposition of the Spanish and European powers-that-be? Indeed, is a capitalist Spain (and Europe) without austerity even conceivable in a world of intensifying international economic rivalry? Continue reading “Spain: The ‘Podemos Plan’ CAN upset EU Austerity Agenda”

1000’s Of British Refugees Make Dangerous Journey Across Irish Sea

BREAKING NEWS, WORLD NEWS

THE IRISH coast guard has today issued a nationwide warning for the East Coast as hundreds of thousands of British refugees risk their lives to cross the Irish sea in an attempt to flee the impoverished and unstable nation.

Dinghies overflowing with desperate migrants are so far half way through their journey, many with women and children aboard, wishing to make a new start on the Emerald Isle.

“We have rescued hundreds of people from crafts due to overcrowding,” winchman Derek Ryan of Rescue 117 told WWN today. “It’s a terrible situation as many of these people are only hoping for a better quality of life in the EU”.

Penelope Higgsbottom was rescued by the Irish Navy — Penelope Higgsbottom was rescued by the Irish Coast Guard

: Taoiseach Enda Kenny has called an emergency meeting in the Dáil this afternoon to help find a solution to the influx of British refugees.

It is expected many of those landing on the Irish coast will have to be quarantined, as they are not a part of the European Union.

Under present rules refugees need to be residents of Northern Ireland or be betrothed in matrimony to an Irish person in order to be granted Irish EU citizenship.

“Emergency prefabs will be erected to help cope and house these poor unfortunate people,” Mr. Kenny stated. “I urge everyone to do what they can to help support the migrants in any way, whether that be waiting with hots cups of tea on the shoreline, to giving them fresh clothes to wear”.

An estimated 450,000 people have already fled the UK mainland to neighbouring EU countries.

from waterford whispers with thanks