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Google hiding websites of Trump and other Biden challengers – report

Searching ‘presidential campaign websites’ returned incumbent Joe Biden’s webpage and several inactive Democrats

Google is suppressing the 2024 campaign websites of all serious challengers to Democratic incumbent President Joe Biden, a report from the Media Research Center claimed on Thursday.

Searching the web for ‘presidential campaign websites’ using Google returned results that did not include a single Republican candidate on the first page the day before the first Republican primary debate of the 2024 season, according to the MRC.

Not even former US President Donald Trump, who is polling neck-and-neck with Biden, appeared in the first few pages of results, the media watchdog observed.

Nor did Democratic challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the chief threat to Biden’s candidacy from within his own party, appear in the results at all, even though a recent poll had him at nearly 20% in a matchup against Biden.

YouTube Demonetizes Channel Over Video of Democrats Challenging Election Results

YouTube has demonitized a channel over a video for the crime of making Democrats look like raging hypocrites.

A journalist named Matt Orfalea, who works with Matt Taibbi, created the video which intersperses clips of Trump questioning election results with Democrats doing the exact same thing.

Someone at YouTube clearly thought this was a problem and yanked the monetization for the entire channel. ...

So what kind of video could spur YouTube’s censors to declare Matt Orfeala, or “orf,” a single independent video journalist a “violent criminal organization”?

One that pushes back against the totalitarian left’s current narrative that Trump is the only person to have ever challenged states’ slates of electors, of course.

We can’t have Trump’s jurors seeing this!

YouTube is telling people that they can make money only through some political speech — political speech that serves the Democrat Establishment and Tech Oligarchy.

The tech censorship never ends. ...

https://www.racket.news/p/youtube-hits-orf-again-as-censorship




As you will see if you click now, the above video, as I argued to Google, could not possibly be violative of any “misinformation” guideline, as it was comprised entirely of “real, un-altered clips of public figures making public comments.”

In the HTML which defines the page, we see:

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans%3A400%2C600%2C700%22 rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?onload=onloadRenderRecaptcha&render=explicit%22 async defer>

The first tag, the "link", gets CSS files from Google servers, to aid in formatting the page. This service is "free" to the creators of https://apply.coveredca.com/ for the sole reason that Google can use it to collect information about the people using it, for example, the fact that they are applying for coverage. Simply loading those CSS files not only lets Google know the URL, IP address, and browser type of the user, but for people who have Google accounts, it also will transmit a "cookie" to Google which allows Google to exactly identify the particular person applying for coverage.

But CSS files the smaller invasion of privacy. The larger invasion is the second line, where a javascript script is loaded, because that invades the privacy of everyone who uses the application for coverage, whether they have a Google account or not, and irresponsibly gives Google unlimited powers of surveillance and control over the page.

When javascript is loaded from a 3rd party server (1st party is user's browser, 2nd party is coveredca.com, 3rd party is Google), that javascript is automatically entrusted with 100% visibility and control over the page. This is simply how all web browsers work. So Google could easily use its javascript to:

1. read everything the user types, including the password, and report it back to Google
2. alter any of the text on the page to say anything Google wants
3. alter what the user is trying to say to coveredca.com without the user or coveredca.com being aware
4. block the page from loading, if Google wants

This is all well-known to javascript programmers who have had sufficient security training. So, for example, no bank will ever include 3rd party javascript on a login or account page for the reasons given above. Sadly, most javascript programmers have not had sufficient security training, and are easily tempted to use the "free" services from Google without consideration as to Google's motive for providing these services. The programmers care about their deadlines for providing the functionality they were tasked with. If they can speed up their work by using Google services, they will do it. They usually either do not even consider the danger to privacy, or just don't care. It is typically only the banks which care, because of the real threat of financial loss and lawsuits.

Even the FBI's "anonymous" tip web page gives an open door to Google to read and write anything in this way, and to identify the tipper. Any tip reported there to the FBI is also visible to Google.

I would be delighted to help more, because this is a serious issue affecting perhaps half of all websites, and it is very difficult to get any attention for it.

Patrick

Someone created a Google doc of students who showed support for Hamas as a record for future employers but Google deleted it

Someone created a Google doc of students who showed support for Hamas as a record for future employers but Google deleted it

I don't like blacklisting, but find it hilarious that the very students who are so much into cancelling people are themselves getting cancelled.

I wouldn't be too quick to ascribe this blacklisting to be from "the left".

richwicks says

I wouldn't be too quick to ascribe this blacklisting to be from "the left".

I do not think anyone is saying the blacklisting is from the left, just that the students who are so quick to cancel others are being cancelled themselves.

In my opinion, those doing the canceling are corporate leaders who have more allegiance to Israel than they do to the United States.

Seriously, this is how I found out about a former Hamas leader calling for a “Day of Jihad” on Friday the 13th.




At first, I wasn’t sure if it was fake news… So, I googled Day of Jihad on Googlenet news - this is what I got.




Nothing - main stream media (MSM) and the Googlenet is not reporting on it. “A Day of Jihad” is evidently not a worthwhile news story.

OK then.

But is the statement real?

This is the problem with censorship and selective news reporting. Where does it end?

So, I googled “Hamas, Jihad” on the Google News. That search pulled some local news stories about local and state police forces getting ready.




Again, nothing from MSM.

With the exception of Newsweek, which did actually report on this story. Newsweek choose to run a hit piece on “Maga” in the context of the Hamas statement. Wait, what? They then asserted that the “day of Jihad”, actually just meant a day of protests…

I had to use Yandex (hat tip richwicks) to find the hamas proclamation video (I suppose I should capitalize hamas to avoid the red squiggly underline, but I do not dignify that which I hold in contempt).

Three years after Fortnite-maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win. The jury in Epic v. Google has just delivered its verdict — and it found that Google turned its Google Play app store and Google Play Billing service into an illegal monopoly.

After just a few hours of deliberation, the jury unanimously answered yes to every question put before them — that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution markets and in-app billing services markets, that Google did anticompetitive things in those markets, and that Epic was injured by that behavior. They decided Google has an illegal tie between its Google Play app store and its Google Play Billing payment services, too, and that its distribution agreement, Project Hug deals with game developers and deals with OEMs were all anticompetitive.

Google's DEI training calls "white anxiety" a public health crisis, compares voting candidates who will "bring back those jobs" to being a junkie

Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages ...

But Bard will also analyze the private content of messages “to understand the context of your conversations, your tone, and your interests.” It will analyze the sentiment of your messages, “to tailor its responses to your mood and vibe.” And it will “analyze your message history with different contacts to understand your relationship dynamics… to personalize responses based on who you're talking to.”

And so here comes the next privacy battlefield for smartphone owners still coming to terms with app permissions, privacy labels and tracking transparency, and with all those voice AI assistant eavesdropping scandals still fresh in the memory.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/02/26/new-amazon-apple-google-eavesdropping-threat-should-you-quit-your-smart-speaker/

Speaking of Death Stars, state-affiliated Google can be as fascinating as it is frustrating. While the search engine slyly suppresses the national conversation, it teaches us through its omissions what the directors of the censorship regime fear the most. For instance, this morning Google pretended not to understand my simple request for a picture of a group of people together lifting a car. Ironically, I found it on TikTok.

Here you go, today’s thematic illustration :

We are far stronger together.

Patrick says

We are far stronger together.

That is what I was saying to Rich Wicks as far as small towns and communities working together and innovating together. That is a way to address and mitigate effects from large-scale dilemmas like currency devaluation.

its like one tree stick can be easily broken. Then have a bunch of sticks and tie string around them; they cannot be broken as easily as the single stick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy

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Speaking of Founding Fathers, I wonder if kids learn anything positive about them anymore in Public Schools.

AmericanKulak says

Speaking of Founding Fathers, I wonder if kids learn anything positive about them anymore in Public Schools.

About 13% of students are proficient in History.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/us/us-history-test-scores.html

Oh, Google. Those of us in media and politics have long discarded the company’s infamous, biased, completely-unreliable search engine. And as I’m sure you heard by now, the company’s recently-rebranded AI platform caused massive controversy yesterday when users noticed the AI, called “Gemini”, formerly “Bard,” is more biased against white folks than the Black Panthers’ Grand High Wizard, or whatever he’s called these days.

In case you missed the fun somehow — Gemini’s concept of Popes:




Users went wild exploring the boundaries of Gemini’s reprehensible racism. It wasn’t just that Gemini would draw unwanted, historically-inaccurate — but diverse! — characters, it actually refused to draw any historically accurate ones, so long as it was asked to draw white folks, that is:




Google’s AI hilariously produced pictures of diverse historical figures in the most unlikely configurations. The story quickly broke into corporate media, producing many uproarious, side-splitting headlines. ...

Now they’ve shut it down. I tried this morning, and at first Gemini refused to draw any pictures of any people, citing its highbrow standards of ethics and personal privacy instead of just admitting it’s racist. (To be fair, we’ve already seen that AI’s ethical standards can change from day-to-day, which probably makes them something different from standards, per se.)

But within an hour or so the deflated AI had thrown in the towel, and now meekly says its bosses claim it’s under improvement.

So how do they inject their goofy Neo-marxist biases and repugnant racism into the AI? It’s not even the programmers doing it. It’s safety specialists who do it using something called prompt injection. That means when you enter a prompt, like “draw a pope,” the interface adds behind-the-scenes instructions before it sends your prompt on to the AI.

So, the ‘prompt’ the AI gets is different from what you typed. If you type, “draw a pope,” the AI will get “draw a pope from the perspective of a speed-addled Black Panther activist being chased by a pack of KKK hangmen. And make sure the result makes trans people feel more like real women.”

I asked ChatGPT to explain ‘prompt injection’ and it actually gave me an honest response:




Slipping a note, lol. But the problem is, we users aren’t allowed to see the true, modified prompts that get sent to the AI. That’s a secret. To its credit, ChatGPT admitted it:




The AI community barks about safety and transparency all the time. But they are just as secretive and non-transparent as any government skunkworks biolab. However, it seems sort of fundamental, for trust and confidence in the AIs, that we be allowed to see how our questions are being modified before being submitted to the computer.

Google’s racist chatbot just opened up that conversation, big time. Let’s have it. Transparently.