[P2P-F] does google censor?

Wed Oct 19 03:03:12 CEST 2011

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!!
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> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Sepp Hasslberger<sepp at lastrega.com>  wrote:
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>> 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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>>    *"The individual is supreme and finds the way through intuition"*
>>
>> http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/
>> http://www.laleva.org
>> http://blog.hasslberger.com/
>> http://www.facebook.com/hasslberger
>>   http://twitter.com/healthsupreme
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>>   On Oct 17, 2011, at 5:13 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
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>> if true, then it is very worrying ...
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>> http://ampedstatus.org/shocking-censorship-at-google-news-and-the-future-of-net-neutrality/
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>> http://ampedstatus.org/shocking-censorship-at-google-news-and-the-future-of-net-neutrality/
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