The battle for the Internet

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  • August 5, 2017 at 7:42 am #71897
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    The battle over the internet is going about the way one would predict.
    More and more ‘alternative’ sites are getting harder and harder to find.

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    internet:https://off-guardian.org/2017/08/04/sky-blocks-offguardian-as-a-malware-site/

    “A reader in the UK has just advised us that SKY has been blocking the OffGuardian as a malware site, using its Sky Broadband Shield to deny the public access to us….
    ……..Between April and June, Google completed a major revision of its search engine that sharply curtails public access to Internet web sites that operate independently of the corporate and state-controlled media. Since the implementation of the changes, many left wing, anti-war and progressive web sites have experienced a sharp fall in traffic generated by Google searches. The World Socialist Web Sitehas seen, within just one month, a 70 percent drop in traffic from Google.

    In a blog post published on April 25, Ben Gomes, Google’s chief search engineer, rolled out the new censorship program in a statement bearing the Orwellian title, “Our latest quality improvements for search.” This statement has been virtually buried by the corporate media. Neither the New York Times nor the Wall Street Journal has reported the statement. The Washington Post limited its coverage of the statement to a single blog post….see link…”

    August 5, 2017 at 10:26 am #71903
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    I noticed a few years back that Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple have subtle and not so subtle ways of suppressing leftist thought online. Unless it’s changed recently, if you look up “socialism” or “marxism” on Ipod search, or in their “university” section, you’ll find a far-right site like mises.org explaining what socialism and marxism mean. You won’t find leftists doing it.

    And in news aggregators, similar things occur. If you choose “socialism” as one of the topics you’re interested in, the news sources for that are almost all from the far right or center right. It’s less than rare that actual socialist sites pop up.

    Silicon Valley has long had a right-libertarian foundation, and the more they dominate the Internet, the more brazen they’ve become in trying to steer the conversation their way, toward a “free market” interpretation of history and current events. The folks who own the gateways and have billions and billions in their war chests are going to do what they can to suppress anticapitalist views.

    Things could go in a lot of different directions, but under capitalism, the chances of true dissent coming out aren’t good.

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