Google lashes out at blogs critical of Obama
Is anyone really surprised at this? It’s totally consistent with Google’s leftist ideologes.
Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites On Its Blogger Platform
Posted by Warner Todd Huston on Sunday, June 29, 2008 4:18:40 PM
It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to go through its many thousands of blogs to lock out the owners of anti-Obama blogs so that the noObama message is effectively squelched. Thus far, Google has terminated the access by blog owners to 7 such sites and the list may be growing. Boy, it must be nice for Barack Obama to have an ally powerful enough to silence his opponents like that!
It isn’t just conservative sites that Google’s Blogger platform is eliminating. For instance, www.comealongway.blogspot.com has been frozen and this one is a Hillary supporting site. The operator of Come a Long Way has a mirror site off the Blogspot platform and has today posted this notice:
USA Partisan (my other site) was among the sites targeted by Google. I suppose I can take a small measure of pride in qualifying for the hit list.
Below is Bloggers explanation:
August 2, 2008
You knew that already, and now we do too. We have now restored all accounts that were mistakenly marked as spam yesterday. (See: Spam Fridays)We want to offer our sincerest apologies to affected bloggers and their readers. We’ve tracked down the problem to a bug in our data processing code that locked blogs even when our algorithms concluded they were not spam. We are adding additional monitoring and process checks to ensure that bugs of this magnitude are caught before they can affect your data.
At Blogger, we strongly believe that you own and should control your posts and other data. We understand that you trust us to store and serve your blog, and incidents like this one are a betrayal of that trust. In the spirit of ensuring that you always have access to your data, we have been working on importing and exporting tools to make it easier to back up your posts. If you’d like a sneak peek at the Import / Export tool, you can try it out on Blogger in Draft.
Our restoration today was of all blogs that were mistakenly marked as spam due to Friday’s bug. Because spam fighting inherently runs the risk of false positives, your blog may have been mis-classified as spam for other reasons. If you are still unable to post to your blog today you can request a review by clicking Request Unlock Review on your Dashboard.
— SiobhanSpam Fridays
August 1, 2008
While we wish that every post on this blog could be about cool features or other Blogger news, sometimes we have to step in and admit a mistake.We’ve noticed that a number of users have had their blogs mistakenly marked as spam, and wanted to sound off real quick to let you know that, despite it being Friday afternoon, we are working hard to sort this out. So to those folks who have received an email saying that your blog has been classified as spam and can’t post right now, we offer our sincere apologies for the trouble.
We hope to have this resolved shortly, and appreciate your patience as we work through the kinks.
— Brett
Here is a note I posted (via a Text Box) shortly after receiving notice from Blogger that I was barred from posting due being suspected of being a Spam Site.
7-31-08 Notice to readers of USA Partisan
8-3-08 USAP has been released from Blogger lock-downToday (7-31) I received notice from Blogger that USA Partisanis a spam site (I have not a clue what that means or what makes this site a spam site). A review, or some such thing, is in progress, I am told. During this review period I am prevented from posting to USAP.
The reason I bring this notice up is the discrepancy between when Blogger says they locked sites down and when it actually happened – almost 2 days ealier.
Not only are they lying about why the lockout occured but when they actually initiated it.
Hans Gruen, Publisher
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Have any of you tried recently to send a message to Axelrod’s snoop site? Earlier this week, I was blocked with an error message stating ‘this page is temporarily whatever…’
I changed my screen name and they accepted my memos as of yesterday. When the word count exceeds the query box limit, I had to break it into several increments to abide that parameter. No problem. Today, the site accepts as many words as I stuff into the box now. However, after the notation send, the site ‘thanks for the memo. Great, er, ah, not so fast. When I toggle the ‘resend’ button and return to the comment box, a yellow ribbon states the ‘message was not processed’ for lack of completion of the ‘subject’ box. I ALWAYS check that box. Nonetheless, I repeat it and have noted my input remains as it was before I submitted it. Ergo, this is their ploy to blockade information they choose not to read.
Have any of you encountered the Rorschach test before you are enabled to submit comments in Axelrod’s wacky wiki flag site? The blots are impossible to decipher. I was so frustrated for so many failures to register my plaints, I made several photos to verify that I had accurately done so. My messages were constantly rejected because I was accused for failing to translate their goofy graffiti.
Try accessing the ‘site’. When the gov tires of your tirades, you will be challenged with the gauntlet of undecipherable ink blots. The scribbled ‘art work’ appears to be the product of the three benighted monkeys. In fact, the ploy smacks of the CIA caveat known as ‘plausible denial’.
awl
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion”.
–Edmund Burke, 1729-97
“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once”.
–David Hume, 1711-76
“. . . the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, ‘“I have found it [liberty]‘, merely shows by doing so that he has lost it”.
–Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906
“If people ignore those who decry tyranny, the loudest favoring freedom will be the first to lose it”.
–A.W. Loescher, 1940-2010
After the imbroglio of NLE-09 was done, I warned it was merely a modest skirmish in the ongoing ‘cruel war’. Information overload choked the the snooper sites of the bight house. Despite the outcries from PILMOA, we are now identified as ‘domestic terrorists’. Our names are now on a dossier on Axelrod-Emanuel’s read-only mega hard drive. Another quote:
In Flanders Fields:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
–Lt. Col. John McCrae, 1918
AWL