This fucker keeps getting more and more powerful. Him being a Jew, I
would not be surprised if he banned Baptists from the Internet because of
their fake, countrified religious worship practices. That would be a
good thing but then, what if he turns on the Africans living here in
Murica and denies them access to his Internet?
You know, Jews don't really like blacks. Socially, you will very rarely
see them associating.
https://goo.gl/MnQ1BP
Is Google Working with Liberal Groups Snuff Out Conservative Websites?
BY PAULA BOLYARD AUGUST 19, 2017 CHAT COMMENTS
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See below for an important update.
Google revealed in a blog post that it is now using machine learning to
document "hate crimes and events" in America. They've partnered with
liberal groups like ProPublica, BuzzFeed News, and the Southern Poverty
Law Center (SPLC) to make information about "hate events" easily
accessible to journalists. And now, there are troubling signs that this
tool could be used to ferret out writers and websites that run afoul of
the progressive orthodoxy.
In the announcement, Simon Rogers, data editor of Google News Labs, wrote:
Now, with ProPublica, we are launching a new machine learning tool to
help journalists covering hate news leverage this data in their reporting.
The Documenting Hate News Index — built by the Google News Lab, data
visualization studio Pitch Interactive and ProPublica — takes a raw feed
of Google News articles from the past six months and uses the Google
Cloud Natural Language API to create a visual tool to help reporters find
news happening across the country. It’s a constantly-updating snapshot of
data from this year, one which is valuable as a starting point to
reporting on this area of news.
The Documenting Hate project launched in response to the lack of national
data on hate crimes. While the FBI is required by law to collect data
about hate crimes, the data is incomplete because local jurisdictions
aren't required to report incidents up to the federal government.
All of which underlines the value of the Documenting Hate Project, which
is powered by a number of different news organisations and journalists
who collect and verify reports of hate crimes and events. Documenting
Hate is informed by both reports from members of the public and raw
Google News data of stories from across the nation.
On the surface, this looks rather innocuous. It's presented by Google as
an attempt to create a database of hate crimes — information that should
be available with a quick Google search, it should be noted. But a quick
glance at the list of partners for this project should raise some red
flags:
The ProPublica-led coalition includes The Google News Lab, Univision
News, the New York Times, WNYC, BuzzFeed News, First Draft, Meedan,
New America Media, The Root, Latino USA, The Advocate, 100 Days in
Appalachia and Ushahidi. The coalition is also working with civil-rights
groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, and schools such as the
University of Miami School of Communications.
ProPublica poses as a middle-of-the-road non-profit journalistic
operation, but in reality, it's funded by a stable of uber-liberal
donors, including George Soros's Open Society Foundation and Herb and
Marion Sandler, billionaire former mortgage bankers whose Golden West
Financial Corp. allegedly targeted subprime borrowers with "pick-a-pay"
mortgages that led to toxic assets that were blamed for the collapse of
Wachovia. The Southern Poverty Law Center, of course, is infamous for
targeting legitimate conservatives groups, branding them as "hate groups"
because they refuse to walk in lockstep with the progressive agenda. And
it goes with out saying that The New York Times and BuzzFeed News lean
left.
Tech Companies Begin Blacklisting Alt-Right Sites, Purging Them from the
Internet
A perusal of the raw data that's been compiled thus far on hate stories
shows articles from a wide array of center-right sites, including The
Daily Caller, Breitbart News, The Washington Times, National Review, and
the Washington Examiner. It also includes many articles from liberal
sites like BuzzFeed News and The New York Times. One story from PJ
Media's Bridget Johnson is included in the list. It's a report about a
Sikh ad campaign aimed at reducing hate crimes against members of their
faith community. Many of the articles are simply reports about alleged
hate crimes from sources running the gamut of the political spectrum.
ProPublica vows to diligently track "hate incidents" in the coming
months. "Everyday people — not just avowed 'white nationalists' —
intimidate, harass, humiliate and even harm their fellow Americans
because of the color of their skin, how they worship or who they
love." [Emphasis added] Note that they're not just focusing on hate
"crimes."
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It's easy enough to figure out the direction of this project by taking it
for a test drive. A search for "Scalise" returned four results, one of
which didn't even mention Steve Scalise, the congressman who was shot by
a crazed leftist in June. A search for "Trump" during the same time
period yielded more than 200 results. A search of the raw data resulted
in 1178 hits for Trump and not a single mention of Scalise.
Note that Google, which recently fired an employee for expressing his
counter-progressive opinions, thinks this information could be used to
"help journalists covering hate news leverage this data in their
reporting." What do they mean by "leverage this data"? They don't say,
but an email sent to several conservative writers by a ProPublica
reporter may give us some indication. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer
along with some others received this from ProPublica "reporter" Lauren
Kirchner:
I am a reporter at ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative newsroom in New
York. I am contacting you to let you know that we are including your
website in a list of sites that have been designated as hate or extremist
by the American Defamation League or the Southern Poverty Law Center. We
have identified all the tech platforms that are supporting websites on
the ADL and SPLC lists.
We would like to ask you a few questions:
1) Do you disagree with the designation of your website as hate or
extremist? Why?
2) We identified several tech companies on your website: PayPal, Amazon,
Newsmax, and Revcontent. Can you confirm that you receive funds from your
relationship with those tech companies? How would the loss of those funds
affect your operations, and how would you be able to replace them?
3) Have you been shut down by other tech companies for being an alleged
hate or extremist web site? Which companies?
4) Many people opposed to sites like yours are currently pressuring tech
companies to cease their relationships with them – what is your view of
this campaign? Why?
In other words, nice website you've got there. It would be a shame if
anything happened to it.
To summarize: Liberal ProPublica, working with the smear merchants at SPLC
— powered by Google — sent a reporter out to issue not so veiled threats
against conservative websites. It's blatantly obvious that the goal here
is to tank websites they disagree with by mounting a campaign to pressure
their advertisers and tech providers to drop them as clients. This comes
on the heels of Google, GoDaddy, CloudFlare, Apple, and others singling
out alt-right sites for destruction in the wake of the Charlottesville
riots.
Robert Spencer (who also writes for PJ Media) responded to the threat on
his Jihad Watch blog:
The intent of your questions, and no doubt of your forthcoming article,
will be to try to compel these sites to cut off any connection with us
based on our opposition to jihad terror. Are you comfortable with what
you’re enabling? Not only are you inhibiting honest analysis of the
nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, but you’re aiding the attempt
to deny people a platform based on their political views. This could come
back to bite you if your own views ever fall out of favor. Have you ever
lived in a totalitarian state, where the powerful determine the
parameters of the public discourse and cut off all voice from the
powerless? Do you really want to live in one now? You might find, once
you get there, that it isn’t as wonderful as you thought it would be.
Spencer has recently criticized Google and the SPLC here at PJ Media for
their attempts to squelch dissent, so it's not surprising that they've
decided to target him. Only instead of fighting Spencer's words with
words of their own, they're lashing out with actions designed to silence
him.
William A. Jacobson, writing at Legal Insurrection, explained the
seriousness of this recent spate of blacklistings:
Companies like Cloudfare and others who provide internet infrastrucure
will come under increasing pressure, and it won’t be limited to the Storm
Fronts of the world. We know from history that the “hate” label is
broadly applied for political purposes, and will be used only against
right-of-center websites.
Being cut off from domain registrars and other aspects of the internet
backbone is something we expect from totalitarian governments. Now that
power is in the control of almost-uniformly left-wing corporate managers.
He went on to warn that the threats he highlights have gone way beyond
mere politics. "They are about our liberty — on the street exercising our
free speech rights, accessing the internet to communicate our ideas, and
preserving the protections of the First Amendment and free speech," he
writes. "It’s a dangerous time."
Robert Spencer wrote, "Authoritarianism in service of any cause leads to
a slave society despite the best intentions of those who helped usher it
in."
We're on a very slippery slope. Be assured that the left won't stop at
taking down alt-right sites. They've tasted blood with their recent
successes and they won't quit until we are all silenced.
UPDATE August 19 5:43 p.m.: ProPublica came out today with the expected
hit piece on Richard Spencer, Jihad Watch, and others they disagree with,
repeating the Southern Poverty Law Center's smears and legitimizing the
dishonest group's hate list. In the article titled "Despite Disavowals,
Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate," Lauren
Kirchner along with two fellow journalists activists documented the
recent blacklisting of "hate websites" by tech companies and, although
they didn't come right out and say it, strongly implied that this should
be the norm. They accept without question the hate designations bestowed
by the SPCL and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The article leaves no
doubt that ProPublica — which is working with Google, remember — wants to
see more blacklisting. They will not rest until every one of the names on
SPLC's dubious 900-member hate list is purged from the Internet. Make no
mistake. They are marshaling forces to pressure advertisers and tech
providers to take conservative sites down. Just take a look at this list
of Christian groups that made the list because they haven't jumped on the
LGBTQ bandwagon.
ProPublica explained what they're doing with excruciating duplicity under
the guise of "journalism":
We supplemented the SPLC list with a list of top extremist websites
provided to us by the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL does not publish
this list and supplied it to us for research purposes. [Wasn't that super
helpful of the ADL?]
See the list of websites we investigated. Download the data.
We located websites associated with the SPLC hate groups and combined it
with the ADL’s list of hate sites. [Because 917 isn't enought — they want
more scalps.] We then compared the combined SPLC/ADL lists with the
Alexa’s Top Million websites and filtered our list to use only websites
that had enough traffic to appear in the top million sites worldwide.
We then wrote software to automatically browse to each website and
collect a list of external domains contacted by each website. In the wake
of Charlottesville, some popular white nationalist websites, such as The
Daily Stormer, were shut down and we removed them from our list. Others,
such as Richard Spencer’s National Policy Initiative, were shut down
after we finished collecting data and so we included them in our results.
In order to identify which domains loaded advertisements or provided
payment forms for the hate sites, and to eliminate domains that only
provided basic functionality, we checked the external domains we found on
those sites against the AdBlock Easylist. This crowdsourced list is used
by ad blocking software to hide ads when users are browsing the internet.
[...]
In order to verify our results, we visited every website and clicked on
the payment links to determine if a working credit card form was loaded,
and we visually inspected each site to ensure that the ad networks were
actually delivering ads when we loaded the page.
Note what they didn't do? They didn't actually read the sites to verify
they were "hate sites." It continues:
We then contacted all the websites and the tech companies and asked them
to verify whether our results were correct. In some cases, such as Google
Custom Search, the company clarified for us that although some websites
were using the technology, none were being paid for its use.
If the SPLC and ADL, with their (growing) list of "hate groups" is going
to be the arbiter for approved online speech, we have reached a very
scary place in this country. It will be the end of the Internet as we
know it and America will be no better than totalitarian China and N.
Korea.