We have to level this playing field. The Big Tech Giants are the ultimate data-siphons cum personalized media outlets. At least in the days of corrupt media players everyone knew what news The Guardian reported. It might be biased, but all Guardian readers got the same news. Not so with the Tech Menaces. They harvest our innermost thoughts and then nudge them “accordingly”.
Google is a publishing house not a platform, and the worst most insidious kind, yet it gets immunity the publishing houses don’t get.
Robert Epstein has 2.5 million new politically related datapoints from google searches in the US in the lead up to the 2022 election, and he exposes what an unholy PsyOp The Google Monster is. Soon he will have 20,000 voters and children collecting data on the data-collector and reporting its biases for all to see.
How Google Stopped the Red Wave
By Robert Epstein, Epoch Times
Epstein is a former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, and a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology.
Based on my team’s research, Google, and to a lesser extent, Facebook and other tech monopolies, not only took steps to shift millions of votes to Democrats in the midterms…
Over a period of months, Google nudged undecided voters toward voting blue by showing people politically biased content in their search engine, suppressing content they didn’t want people to see, recommending left-leaning videos on YouTube (pdf) (which Google owns), allegedly sending tens of millions of emails to people’s spam boxes, and sending go-vote reminders on their home page mainly to liberal and moderate voters.
These manipulations (and others) don’t affect voters with strong points of view, but they can have an enormous impact on voters who are undecided (pdf) — the people who decide the outcomes of close elections. …
Political advertising by selective omission:
We were monitoring the politically related content that Google and other tech companies were showing to actual voters — our politically diverse panel of 2,742 “field agents,” who were located mainly in swing states.
In particular, we were tracking what Google employees call “ephemeral experiences” — content that appears briefly, affects people, and then disappears.
In 2018, in emails that leaked from the company, Googlers were discussing how they might use ephemeral experiences to change people’s views about Trump’s travel ban. They know how powerful ephemeral experiences can be. That’s one of the most closely held secrets of Google’s management.
Ephemeral content is ideal for manipulation purposes. If you get a go-vote reminder on Google’s home page (see the image below for an actual go-vote reminder sent to a liberal voter on Election Day), how would you know whether anyone else was getting it? You wouldn’t, and if you didn’t receive such a reminder, how would you know that anyone else had?
He also advises people that Google promotes some conspiracy theories to distract and divide the punters away from the real targets. While this is undoubtedly true to some extent, he pushes far too hard. Presumably he is frustrated watching people fight on so many fronts and wants them all to focus on his battle instead.
And it is a big battle.
h/t David E
“Google is a publishing house not a platform, and the worst most insidious kind, yet it gets immunity the publishing houses don’t get.”
Big Tech act as a conduit for Government propaganda and, in return, receive a protected publishing status not that dissimilar to that extended to Big Pharma over the dubious covid vaccines.
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“Big Tech act as a conduit for Government propaganda”
I don’t think that is correct.
They carry the same leftist propaganda all the time, even when Republicans are in power.
If you said “Big Tech act as a conduit for Deep State/WEF propaganda”, I think you would be closer to reality.
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Just helping you edit especially seeing that the re-elected senate minority leader is the same China tied old fart.
Also the new Speaker of the House is not exactly credentialed conservative.
We have a lot of work to do before 2024.
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The manipulation of all information, not just that of a political nature, by Goolag is frightening.
It is compounded further by the Left’s war against education over the last five decades or so which has pretty much eliminated the teaching of critical thinking skills (for those not home schooled by aware parents).
The “education” system is just turning out mindless drones that believe in nothing, fight for nothing and are interested only in themselves and what they can take from “The System”.
It’s all the fulfillment of the 1967 plan conceived by the German communist Rudi Dutschke called “The long march through the institutions”*.
I use Goolag but am fully aware that the results may be and likely are manipulated to suit whatever globalist social engineering agenda Goolag is pushing.
It’s OK to use to find where the nearest stores or service providers you might be looking for are and for technical information and others matters that don’t have a social(ist) agenda.
But even then you have to be careful. E.g. Goolag social engineers mightn’t want you visiting a particular store, online or offline because its owner is not woke. E.g. look at how My Pillow and owner Mike Lindell were treated because he supported Donald Trump.
Goolag has the power to unperson you, just like in Nineteen Eighty Four. Definition: “someone whose existence is denied due to a political or ideological crime”.
The use of alternative search engines such as DuckDuckGo is to be encouraged. Even Microsoft owned Bing is known to be less biased and manipulative.
(*Some say the idea was invented by the Italian communist Antonia Gramsci but Dutschke seems to have popularised it.)
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Goolag already incorporates artificial intelligence.
At some point the whole thing may become self aware.
At that point, the system itself, and not its misanthropic human operators may decide that humans, or at least freedom-loving humans are the enemy and take actions to suppress or eliminate them.
This is pretty well the nightmare scenario of Skynet in The Terminator franchise.
Unlike Skynet, Goolag is not known to be currently connected to any military defensive or offensive systems.
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Every faceache post that mentions anything about weather , climate and floods etc gets a faceache message attached to it about the temperature where you live . They are still doing the Covid messages and no doubt will engage in a campaign that favours the Dems . Just like the ABC .
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Farcebook is and was probably designed as the biggest personal data mining operation in history.
Most of the rest of “anti-social media” are in on the game.
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I am surprised people don’t talk about this more often. I learnt this a decade ago and adjusted accordingly. If I want to learn something about climate change I always start my ‘search’ with JoNova or Wattsupwiththat. If its more political, I start always start my ‘search’ with Fox News. If I wanted to learnt more about say, the ‘George Pell’ case, I’d start my search with Andrew Bolt. Not perfect, but at least it gets around some of the garbage.
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But when will those be permanently “misinformation” so you will see:
Error 404
or maybe:
welcome friend to our new place of comfort.
Comfort and training.
Comfort and training.
Training.
Training.
Discomfort and training.
Discomfort and training.
Discomfort.
Discomfort
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https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b44fbbeb75d6c31be684b4edcbef23bbc24b202b1b52340a4c8e7604a8e91706.jpg
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Don’t forget many, even millions, of lives were lost due to suppression of evidence-based information about covid on Goolag-owned YouTube.
Even information about how Vitamin D3 reduces mortality of covid was labelled as “misinformation” and channels talking about antivirals like IVM and HCQ were shut down and eminent scientists were banned.
Suppression of speech and information has deadly consequences.
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UTTERLY INTENDED consequences. “Cleansing” the planet to appease “Gaia”. Death-cultists to the core.
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Videos:
Felix Rex talks about Goolag. https://youtu.be/aWhzHECM9is (12 min)
Mark Dice talks about how Goolag returns biased results about “climate change” and other matters. “Sceptical” videos about climate change are automatically demonetised.
https://youtu.be/04VhOZcyn0U (7 min)
Goolag reported a customer to police and caused serious harm because he posted medical pictures to his doctor about his child’s condition.
https://youtu.be/CE0EB5bXj14 (13 mins)
Goolag promotes CCP propaganda.
https://youtu.be/sqCgqLDgov4 (11 mins)
Goolag demonetised genuine climate scientist, Roy Spencer. Andrew Bolt interview.
https://youtu.be/CZy8mgD05QA (7 mins)
Selling more than just your personal information by Naomi Brockwell.
https://youtu.be/_hx9S5EclyA (12 mins)
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This video demonstrates how Google image search results are manipulated.
https://youtu.be/qkals_qyxwM
(3 mins)
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Try a goolag search for “happy white woman”, and then select the images tab.. the results are blatant propaganda when I do it… maybe others get targeted with a different “message”.
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When I type it into Duck Duck Go, I get various pictures of white women smiling. When I type it into Google, I get a few images of white women smiling but mostly of women, men and children of darker complexion and a white womenswear with a horrible scowl.
My take out from that is that The Google AI is broken, or racist.
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Does anybody else remember – ” Don’t be Evil“.
Makes you think of almost all of our politicians, chief health officers, journalists & a significant proportion of the medical system.
Clearly it means as much as an oath of office, a contract or an electoral promise.
Diggers would be spinning in their graves.
DON’T BE GOOGLE!
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No better example of press/information manipulation/suppression than in the last year of Bob Hawke’s prime ministership in 1991. Poor Bob was so upset at the disinformation being reported about him and the effect on his popularity that he called all the reporters from the press gallery and assembled them on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin.
He then gave them a very strong dressing down concerning this continued incorrect reporting and news bias against him. Bob then announced that he was going to let them witness a newspaper exclusive event that there was no possibility of them reporting incorrectly but if even one paper did there would be no more access through the parliamentary press gallery for any of them.
Bob then proceeded to walk across to the other side of the lake before turning and walking back. He then dismissed them all with the challenge to now “Go and accurately report what you have just witnessed to the masses”.
The next day and every newspaper in the land screamed the headline “Bob Hawke Can’t Swim”.
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If you Goolag “climate change scepticism” without quote marks all the first search results will be anti-sceptical, they will follow the fraudulent warmist narrative and criticise “deniers” (sic).
Goolag partners with government and billionaire subsidy harvesters to promote the anthropogenic global warming fraud. (See Mark Dice video I posted above.)
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Once Elon Musk has stabilised Twitter I would like to see him establish an honest search engine.
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I live in Victoria and often get Labor advertisements over the past month when I open YouTube.
Isn’t it called advertising? And isn’t that where Google gets its revenue?
I do not know how much state debt is contributing to Google but that is my main gripe. The ads are a mild annoyance of course.
Going by the front page of the Herald Sun today about “Toxic Dan”, it appears the Liberal smear campaign is working. Peta Credlin views Dan as a target and is doing well to scrub off the shiny venere to expose the slime. I suspect she and Sky News are walking a fine line throwing mud that sticks.
I still think Peta Credlin has what it takes to be a truly great PM.
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I also “live” in Vicdanistan although I wouldn’t say it’s enjoyable living in Australia’s most corrupt, most totalitarian, most socialist police state.
Apart from Labor ads I also get targeted Teal ads. I live in a blue ribbon Liberal (pretend conservative) seat, but Teals have specifically targeted the removal of the sitting member and the ads are targeted geographically- they know where you live and they send the ads to your specific area.
I see very few Liberal ads and those I do see are incredibly lame. It’s as though the advertising agency they use has been infiltrated by a fifth column to sabotage the Liberal ad campaign.
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She could well be OUR best prime minister ever.But I doubt that the leftards would allow it.
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Women aren’t meant to be leaders
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I only seem to get liberal or nationals advertising for this upcoming Victorian election.
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I just hope that Musk can make Twitter a more reasonable and honest place. But I know it’s a very big task and I’ll believe it when I see it.
He has sacked a lot of them, but hopefully the better engineers and managers will change their workplace and help them represent the entire population and not just left wing extremists. We can only hope.
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Musk has already proven his point; the crock of s^^^ tears of the hardly working staff and lamentations of the terminally insensitive Hollywood left have demonstrated the symbiosis he has broken; their nourishment as parasites interrupted these folks are literally rats leaving the ship.
The town square will be harder; you’ll have to own your id and it will have to be portable or at least interoperable across platforms and unique; for simplicity think your phone number; you can call and be called by anyone in the world, and a world phone directory is fundamentally a directory of singletons….the operators can tell if your number is being spoofed (if they care to bother).
The difficulty is that this doesn’t lend itself well to an ad supported model, We pay for the privilege of our phone service and I know of nowhere where we can get it free if we listen to an ad before receiving a call.
Perhaps a site where you can watch and spread BS on channel A for free watching ads, but with subscription filter A and be part of a community on B broadcasting to A.
Many of the folks now screaming have terrible ideas that can’t survive in an environment of open debate and critical scrutiny.
But on an echo platform of the like minded they lose influence….only the universally available “town square” is really useful for the latter day Thomas Paines of the world.
It is telling that Elon wants people to work for a living, and this seems like a new & difficult concept for many of the employees.
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So Google wattsupwiththat and you get this on right hand side of the page.
“Watts Up With That? is a blog promoting climate change denial that was created by Anthony Watts in 2006. The blog predominantly discusses climate issues with a focus on anthropogenic climate change, generally accommodating beliefs that are in opposition to the scientific consensus on climate change. Wikipedia”
This shows Google as being biased and is driving an agenda.
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97% of free-thinkers oppose Climate Alarmism — did that come up?
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That wattsupwiththat information is more probably related to the first provided entry being from “wikipedia”
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It astounds me how many of my ‘degreed’ friends think Fox is extreme and the rest of the media are even handed. Yesterday I actually got one (who thinks Biden has dementia) thinking about how little Biden’s gaffes and health are mentioned in the media … it’s a start.
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Bluntly Google, DuckDuckGo, are basically becoming useless, the results aren’t correct, all they seem to show is people who pay for advertising
DuckDuckGo brookvale bricks, used bricks
Does not show https://www.brickmart.com.au/ – 222 Harbord Road, Brookvale NSW
And H&G sell bricks in Brookvale
Similarly Google brookvale bricks, used bricks
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This is 12 years old so don’t know if it still works. It preceeds google’s buy out of Youtube which is probably why its still listed. Anyway releases some tension even if it doesn’t work.
Written lang u age warning. Enjoy.
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NOVEMBER 18, 2022
DA TECHGUY: Reality Doesn’t Care What Twitter Employees Think or Nobody has Repealed the Laws of Supply and Demand. “Put simply while the supposedly bright people at Twitter who are considering leaving may have forgotten the laws of supply and demand Elon Musk hasn’t and if they think Twitter is suddenly going to go black because a bunch of them, even the majority of them choose to leave, then frankly [they’re] too stupid to be working at any company Musk owns.”
Related:
Stephen Green
@VodkaPundit
I’m very curious to see how few people it really takes to maintain a microblogging platform. Not very many, I think, but maybe I’m wrong.
If Musk makes Twitter work with a headcount 80% smaller than when he bought the company, I’m even more curious to see what the tech industry shakeout might be.
From the Comments
– I hope someone follows up on all the disenfranchised Twits so we can hear how they’re faring out here in the cold, cruel world.
– One thing Musk sure as hell understands is profit and loss.
– Staying solvent is a prerequisite for everything he wants to do in business.
That seems self-evident but oddly, it may not be.
– Maintaining the cloud infrastructure is probably the biggest challenge. The software is probably not that big of a deal to maintain.
– It’s not like the employees are pedaling bikes connected to generators and if they stop the lights go out
– Musk just gave permission to the other media companies, Amazon, Beta and others, license for mass layoffs.
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If you need a Government app to apply for MygovID and similar, you can only get it from Google Playstore. So Google adds you, and probably the data you send, to your dossier.
Either Australian governments do not have the expertise or facilities to distribute apps, or they have to do as they are told.
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Son-in-law, who is an early adopter of anything and everything, passed on his 1 year old Google Pixel phone to me. I gave it back after a couple of days – didn’t appreciate being immersed in Googleworld. I like my independence.
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THE DAILY CHART: SILICON VALLEY’S POLITICAL LEANINGS
Maybe the news of massive layoffs at at leading Silicon Valley tech companies is good news for the Republican Party. Herewith:
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Let’s hope E can either keep it shutdown or have operating totally under his command in 2024.
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I stay away from Google now. The first search engine I recall that was hugely useful was FAST a “Norwegian” based outfit from the 1990’s.
I remember how superior Google was when they emerged and I used G for a coupla decades.
~2 years ago I bought a “smart phone” but Googles constant barking/grabbing presence drove me back to a basic old Telstra T95 dumb handset where I can take and make calls in peace.
Now I avoid Google and search with DuckDuck which is inferior but mostly good enough. I also use a little Software thing “Locate” to search file names on my HDD. For a coupla decades now I have been storing useful info – links etc in txt files with file names indicating content. Locate searches the file names with great skill.
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Several years agom I made a google-alert on “Climate Change” to get an automatic weekly overview of the important news on this topic. As soon as I saw the bias (100% of the items in the newsletter were about some catastrophic research, terrible weather event with a link to AGW or other related hysteric news), I stopped using goolge.
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The Chinese model of taking money from workers and donating it to their affiliated media and big tech outlets is the main attraction here and thus the drive to shift society in the west in this direction from our own big tech oligarchs. We need to understand that as China becomes the dominant global superpower, it’s sphere of influence extends to business and politics and the lure of the easy government dollars of infinite wealth. The payback is propaganda and censorship and the alliance is formed to guarantee power forever. I know that many people won’t like this comment, but the USA lost its democracy when Biden was elected and the proof of this reality lies in how an elderly man with advancing dementia, can be elected US president. Everything is now managed by the ruling elites that we don’t see in the public eye and through their propaganda and censorship alliances with big tech and the government institutions, they can now control the outcome. Even a mumbling stroke victim was pushed into office to ensure the senate control was maintained and we can be sure that 2024 will be another Democrat victory.
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You are right up to a point, the party. It’s not “just” the democrats. Both parties are involved. it takes a missive redirect to only blame one side. After all, the freedom loving small government party gave us ” Homeland security”. The biggest boondoggle yet. And the daughter of a ccp official had input into the structure and planning,and implication of the department. So how is one party to blame?
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I Google “Advanced Search”. Then click on page 10. If you Google “Nasty Socialists” and click on page 10. You get past what they want you to see on pages 1 to 9, to my post on page 10, joannenova.com.au, “First it was Nasty Socialists and Soviet Socialists, now its Mass Murder by a collaboration between nasty left-wing Socialists and money”
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Don’t use google – use Brave- allows more control of adds. I have not regretted going to Brave. I keep on ice another browser in case of some programs not using it – but so far so good. Love not seeing adds so many.. oh wow..
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Yes, I have used Brave as my search engine for over a year now and it’s been a good move.
Sometimes I might use google if I’m shopping for something locally and Brave isn’t quite landing the results I need, but for general stuff Brave is fine.
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