Re:Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits l...
by nickysielicki on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:29PM
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It happens on more sites than YouTube now.
For example, do a normal google search for "assange ntlm xmpp manning" (without quotes) and you'll see a mere 8 results from:
- justice.gov
- forbes
- abcnews
- reuters
- washingtonpost
- newyorker
- pbs
- apnews
Google needs to cut this shit out. The most appalling part is they don't even put a warning on the results to tell you that you typed a no-no keyword and that they've filtered the results. You might be lead to believe that only these news agencies wrote about it -- that the heterodox opinions don't even exist. It's completely Orwellian.
Re:Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits l...
by TeeMassive on Sunday July 04, 2021 @06:31PM
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The first result is your comment. Yikes.
The "it's a private company they can do what they want" argument often thrown by those who claims to "fight fascism" is just plainly ignorant of how fascism and Nazism got and stayed into power in the first place.
There were other news websites talking about this but they are algorithmically supplanted by "mainstream" news sites. For example it has gotten so bad that searching for the SpaceX's stream on YouTube yielded an entire page or results from "mainstream" outlets before the actual stream, even if the keywords were explicitly just about SpaceX.
Censorship never yielded net positive results.