Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms

Re:Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms by pmarreck on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:31PM (#14975496)

It's almost like "truth" isn't an absolute thing, but an ongoing discussion... which has become fractured!

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Re:Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms by diogenescynic on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:36PM (#14975528)

And yet there are observable and objective facts. Water freezes at 32 degrees. The sky is blue. Grass is green.

When a source repeatedly tells you not to believe your own eyes, but offers no valid counter-argument--you should be suspicious. I'm fine with Google/Facebook or whoever filtering out known dishonest and inaccurate websites, whether they are intentionally malicious or just ignorant.

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Re:Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms by undersuit on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:47PM (#14975601)

So WSWS is a known dishonest and/or inaccurate website?

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Re:Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms by macspoofing on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:17AM (#14978202)

WSWS? Oh yeah. It's an extreme left site that makes no attempt at any objectivity.

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Re:Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms by undersuit on Thursday August 10, 2017 @10:22AM (#14979952)

I hate to have to ask again. Lack of objectivity isn't dishonest or inaccurate.

ob·jec·tive (of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.

So is WSWS a dishonest and/or inaccurate website?

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Re:Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms by macspoofing on Thursday August 10, 2017 @12:29PM (#14981329)

If you notice, they seemed to be flagged for neutral historical search queries. Things like "Russian Revolution". Someone reading it would get a viewpoint that is not supported by mainstream historians. So yes, dishonest.

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Re:Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms by undersuit on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:31PM (#14982689)

Do you have any proof that the content they host is dishonest? I'm seriously asking.

EDIT This page doesn't seem dishonest: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/07/twrr-a07.html Are you saying Google has examined the historical accuracy of this page and found it lacking?

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Re:Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms by macspoofing on Friday August 11, 2017 @06:05AM (#14988100)

The first line in their chronology uses terms like 'bourgeois' - a loaded term that is exclusively used by Communists and Marxists. I wouldn't trust it as a source for a middle school essay.

I'm sorry you don't see why an ideological advocacy organization would be de-prioritized for neutral search queries by a search engine. If you don't get it, I cannot bridge that gap for you. A Marxist perspective on the Russian Revolution is interesting and there's value to it but it has to be rooted in that context, otherwise it's just dishonest.

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Re:Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms by slededit on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:46AM (#14977725)

Up on the top of this mountain my water freezes at 31 degrees! You are a liar and propagandist.

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Re:Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms by pmarreck on Thursday August 10, 2017 @12:51AM (#14976505)

> When a source repeatedly tells you not to believe your own eyes, but offers no valid counter-argument--you should be suspicious

Who put Google in charge of determining what is true and what is fakenews? And how are you entirely comfortable with that?

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