Friday, July 08, 2005

 

Google Discredits Itself

Google News is including Indymedia as a news source once again despite it being a completely unmoderated, totally uncontrolled and frequently vile cesspit.

See that thing flying out the window Google? That's your credibility as an aggregator of quality news services.

Take just a moment and tell Google what you think.

Update: I have been linked to by Little Green Footballs. This has resulted in the following comment on this entry by someone purporting to be an Indymedia moderator:
What's most fascinating is that just after you nutjobs posted this link, a half dozen anti-Jewish posts went up on my local Indymedia.
I wonder how the writer explains this article on his local NYC Indymedia which appeared before the LGF listing. Similarly, how to explain the hundreds of antisemitic posts which appear on Indymedia every other week? Look around this blog for numerous examples of this and other problems which can't be so easily dismissed.
In other words, it's obvious to us at Indymedia at least that right-wing fanatics like you have been posting articles you hope to discredit the site with.

This is just a post from an Indymedia site moderator to let you know that we know what you are doing.

These days, virtually all of the anti-Semitic posts we are forced to delete are linked from right-wing, pro-Israeli trolls.
This is not the first time I have reported on such denial of the problem on Indymedia and shifting the blame onto the victim suggesting Jews are responsible for antisemitsm. It happens all the time on Indymedia. In this post I predicted:
the common response denying genuine anti-Semitism [on Indymedia] exists and probably suggesting the above quotes were in fact posted by Jews looking for sympathy. That is, all articles condemnatory of Jews were actually written by covert Jewish Mossad agents.
As for being "forced to delete" such filth, I suspect the writer thinks he is doing someone a favor. I'm sure he doesn't believe there's any real antisemites on Indymedia... If NYC are deleting them however (albeit begrudgingly), that's a good thing. Looking through their hidden posts suggests they have a pretty small tolerance for conspiratorial rants and they are making more of an effort than most. Denying the original problem however is unhelpful.

Update 2: Numerous comments on this entry suggest there may be more going on at Google than I thought. One links to this site providing examples of controversy reported here regarding political advertising on Google.

As Scott said, Google is now a public corporation and may have to answer to stock holders if this becomes a huge issue.

Update 3: Have a look at some of the other material regarded by Google as a reliable news source . Stock holders pay heed!

Comments:
What's most fascinating is that just after you nutjobs posted this link, a half dozen anti-Jewish posts went up on my local Indymedia.

In other words, it's obvious to us at Indymedia at least that right-wing fanatics like you have been posting articles you hope to discredit the site with.

This is just a post from an Indymedia site moderator to let you know that we know what you are doing.

These days, virtually all of the anti-Semitic posts we are forced to delete are linked from right-wing, pro-Israeli trolls.

Funny, huh?
 
Nothing unusual about Google and the left.

Google allows anti-Bush and anti-Republican adwords ads despite it's policy preventing such.

However, Google bans ads advocating against liberal/Democratic causes.

"Is Google Adwords Biased Against Republicans?"

See linky: http://www.hk94.com/weblog/?p=130
 
Excellent work as usual. Google is now a public corporation, as such they have to answer to stock holders who will have to respond if this becomes a huge issue.

Let's keep the heat on a see what we can accomplish.
 
Is google biased against Republicans? Do you suppose that explains why "buyblue" gives google a 100% rating for its donations to democrats? That's why I switched to Teoma and Vivisimo search engines

BTW, I use buyblue to find out which red companies to buy from.

skyebird
 
I recently posted a comment on NYC indymedia in response to an article about ANSWER. My post contained some population figures for the WB and Gaza all. As well as mention that the first ethnic cleasing that took place in that area in the 20th century occured in Hebron in the 1920's and it was Jews who families had lived there for centuries that had been ethnically cleased. All well documented facts. My post was moved to the hidden area. Not only that but apparently imc found it so threatening that they deleted all the text of my message and added their supposed reasons for moving my post: "standard apology for Israeli ethnic cleansing, known falsehoods, racist logic, Zionist dissembling". I sent them 2 e-mails asking them which facts were false and how my logic was racist and of course recieved no reply.

Talk about a regime that allows no dissent sheesh IMC takes the cake.

What I find funny is that they must know that the arguements supporting their opinon are so tenuous that they can't stand up to any critism at all and won't even allow them to be displayed in the hidden area.
 
update on my post above. I finally got a reply from IMC to my e-mail asking why my post was deleted and guess what it was deleted by the very same person I was debating in the thread. How's that for stiffling disent. IMC should be embarrased.
 
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