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Is Google Serving as Obama’s Online Gestapo?

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It sure seems so.  Especially since Google has a history of active censorship.

Some bloggers opposed to Barack Obama say they suspect Obama’s supporters — with the assistance of Google — may have tried to censor them when the Internet giant froze their Web sites for five days last month.

Seven blogs run by Democrats who oppose Obama’s nomination for the presidency were incorrectly flagged as spam sites by Blogger, the hosting service Google has owned since 2003. Google says it was an automated response from a spam filter.

But the bloggers believe that Web surfers who support Obama took advantage of a loophole in Blogger’s system that allows readers to report spam blogs, the artificial Web sites that abound on the Internet and are used to promote other sites.

“It appears that [Blogger’s] policy can be manipulated by people determined to shut down the free exchange of ideas,” said Carissa Snedeker, whose blog, BlueLyon, was among those that were frozen.

“It’s unusual — I’ve never heard of similar blogs of the same nature being shut down like that,” said Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of the tech site SearchEngineLand.com.

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“The conclusion that many of us came to was that we were specifically targeted by some over-enthusiastic Obama supporters,” Snedeker said.

The bloggers believe it’s part of a larger campaign to evict them from left-wing sites like the Huffington Post and DailyKos.

(For you younger folk that aren’t allowed to be taught these things in your public schools, here’s a refresher on the Gestapo so you can follow the allusion.)

And can someone remind me again…. what side of the political spectrum will you find the roots of fascism?  Let me help you out — read this book:  Liberal Fascism.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  3. Paging Mr. Winston – you are needed at the corrections desk. (H/T Orwell’s “1984”)

    Keep trying to spin, snObama. We’ve got your number. And we are not afraid of you or your mind-numbed robots.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  4. Also, as I mentioned further down, it appears as though the Obamanator wants his own (shall we say) “truth squad” when in office, as stated in his July 2 address in Colorado Springs:

    “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

    Be afraid. Be very afraid.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  5. There is no doubt in my mind that SNObama (good word choice, Peter H.) is deep in his heart an extreme Marxist leftist with no moral compass and no core American values except to grab power, exercise it and keep it…notice how pissy he gets when anyone questions him in any way or dares challenges him.)

    Notice the scrubbing of his own website from saying the surge is a disaster to the surge is working…

    Notice that he lied and hoodwinked his own supporters to get the nomination and now has changed all his positions to get elected..and if he gets elected, there is no doubt that he will change his positions again…and Gestapo like tactics will be well used during a NObama Administration……

  9. I like Google’s search engine and email, but I wouldn’t pay them for anything. A little tweaking here and there to hide anti-Messiah blogs wouldn’t surprise me. It’s not a ridiculous allegation.

    Silicon Valley is oh, so progressive when it comes to global warming and saving the whales or whatever but hypocrites to the core.

    But when it comes to making a buck, principle goes out the window (censored Chinese blogs and cooperating with Chinese authorities attempting to identify political dissidents). Ditto for Yahoo! and Microsoft.

    I think it was J.C. Watts who said “character was doing the right thing when no one is watching”. I would add “and doing the right thing even when it costs you something”.