Remember back when the Internet offered a promise of information democracy, and you could hope to find the truth about what’s really going on? Now, many independent media sources are under pressure and being buried in search results, losing views and revenue, despite ever-increasing subscriber interest. Are we doomed to become passive followers of whatever Read More…
Censorship
Nazi Fears And ‘Hate Speech’ Hysteria Are Being Amplified To Attack Civil Liberties
It doesn’t take courage to denounce Nazism. Moreover, it appears many of the people incessantly proclaiming how anti-Nazi they are, happen to be the same folks who have the most to answer for when it comes to all sorts of transgressions against the world over the past couple of decades. That said, I’ll give my Read More…
New Google Search Censorship Appears To Be Worse Than Originally Feared
New data released by the World Socialist Web Site seems to confirm what many had feared: the new Google search evaluation protocol is adversely affecting a broad array of leftist, whistleblower and democratic rights organizations, and anti-war news outlets. The data, collected from the search engine metric website SEMrush, shows massive drops in traffic to WikiLeaks, the Intercept, Read More…
When Washington Decides Democracy Is Dangerous: Stoking Opposition In Venezuela And Syria
The opposition “movements” in Venezuela and Syria have a great deal in common: both are seeking the demise of democratically-elected governments; both resort to violence and acts of terrorism; both are tools of U.S. and Western imperialism, and both are failing. If you’ve been following international news in recent years, you know that two countries, Read More…
YouTube Is Now Purging Evidence Of War Crimes—Labeling It As “Extremist” Content
Just one month after YouTube deleted a video of the United States air-dropping weapons to ISIS and claimed that it contained “violent or graphic content,” the video platform is now being criticized for implementing a new artificial intelligence program to monitor “extremist” content that is deleting videos that document U.S. war crimes. The monitoring organization Airwars.org recently Read More…
Fired Coder Speaks Out On Google’s “Potentially Illegal Practices”, “Recorded Meetings” And “Science Denial”
For those who have managed to avoid this storyline, James Damore, now a former Google employee, caused outrage when he circulated a manifesto on Friday, complaining about Google’s “ideological echo chamber,” alleging women have lower tolerance for stress and that conservatives are more conscientious. By Monday, the chess master, who studied at Harvard, Princeton and MIT and worked Read More…






