worse, perhaps, although maybe less sensational than censoring is the self-censoring that Google facilitates through its me-me-me algorithms where what you find is what you were looking for. To paraphrase Kevin, if I always look for a hammer, then Google will show me hammers. I will never know of pliers. I will see what I saw, what I want to see according to my past, -- the future, thus, recedes and we are stuck in a hamster's wheel wall-papered with ads. Lowest individual denominator, perfect neoliberal subjects emerge in cyberspace - God and Coke forbid we associated with "the other": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_Zero_Facial_Profiler On 19/10/11 01:37, Michel Bauwens wrote:
we definitely need documented proof on this, and then publicise it!!
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Sepp Hasslberger<[email protected]> wrote:
I have no doubt that it IS true that Google is censoring.
They downgrade selected content that offends their major customers (both advertisers and government agencies) or puts them in a bad light.
I've had some experience of this myself when Google re-did its algorythms and my major articles critical of Pfizer's cholesterol lowering drug Lipitor which had been on the first page of Google results for some years, all of a sudden were way down, nowhere to be found on a search, and instead the sites that sell the drug and that sing its praises were up where my critical articles had been.
To me, it's a fact that Google censors its results, not only news but also normal search. It is not widely known, but it should be. Robin Good, who hosts my health site, at the time did not believe Google could ever do such a thing. I think he may be slowly changing his mind. If he did, and got on that story, we might have an outlet to a larger public.
Sepp
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On Oct 17, 2011, at 5:13 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
if true, then it is very worrying ...
http://ampedstatus.org/shocking-censorship-at-google-news-and-the-future-of-...
http://ampedstatus.org/shocking-censorship-at-google-news-and-the-future-of-...
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