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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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