{"id":113999,"date":"2022-04-28T09:05:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T13:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=113999"},"modified":"2022-04-28T09:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T13:05:24","slug":"all-search-engines-are-effectively-controlled-by-the-u-s-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=113999","title":{"rendered":"All search-engines are effectively controlled by the U.S. Government."},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Eric Zeusse<\/p>\n

Because it has become widely known that Google search-results exclude any find that proves the falsehood of the U.S. Government\u2019s key allegations regarding international relations (such as the U.S. Government\u2019s allegation that Ukraine\u2019s Government is not<\/i>\u00a0controlled by racist fascists or \u201cnazis\u201d as it\u00a0actually is<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and has been\u00a0ever since February 2014<\/span><\/a>), many researchers have started using\u00a0other<\/i>\u00a0search-engines, such as DuckDuckGo, which advertises on America\u2019s neoconservative liberal National Public Radio (NPR) network as being an alternative to Google. However, on March 9th, DuckDuckGo\u2019s CEO & Founder, Gabriel Weinberg, issued a\u00a0tweet<\/span><\/a>\u00a0saying \u201cLike so many others I am sickened by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine. At DuckDuckGo, we\u2019ve been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n

There was immediate blowback from researchers who hate Google because it does what DuckDuckGo had just admitted there that DuckDuckGo ALSO does: filter out information that the U.S. Government doesn\u2019t want the public to know (such as that Ukraine\u2019s nazis control Ukraine and\u00a0are backed by the U.S. Government<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n

So, Weinberg quickly followed up with \u201cIn addition to down-ranking sites associated with disinformation, we also often place news modules and information boxes at the top of DuckDuckGo search results (where they are seen and clicked the most) to highlight quality information for rapidly unfolding topics.\u201d<\/p>\n

That didn\u2019t quell the blowback; so, on April 17th he\u00a0tweeted<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthere is a completely made up headline going around this weekend. We are not \u2018purging\u2019 any media outlets from results. Anyone can verify this by searching for an outlet and see it comes up in results.\u201d<\/p>\n

That response from him was assuming what he undoubtedly knew to be false: that the users\u2019 concern was whether or not a given \u201coutlet\u201d that\u2019s being searched-for by a user will be found if specifically searched-for on DuckDuckGo. He\u2019s not so stupid as to actually\u00a0believe<\/i>\u00a0that\u00a0that<\/i>\u00a0is what users are actually rebelling against \u2014 he knows that\u00a0instead<\/i>\u00a0they are rebelling against having a search-engine, whether Google or DuckDuckGo or any other,\u00a0pretend<\/i>\u00a0to be able to predetermine which allegations or types of allegations that are accessible through the Web are true, and which are false (or \u2018low quality\u2019). Obviously, no search-engine can do that; any that\u00a0pretend to<\/i>\u00a0are committing fraud. But that sadly includes every search-engine.<\/p>\n

Any intelligent user of the internet knows that ANY censorship on the Web is dictatorial, NOT democratic. It\u2019s at least as dictatorial if it is coming from billionaires such as Gabriel Weinberg, or Jack Dorsey, or Mark Zuckerberg, or their agents, as it is if it comes from the Government itself \u2014 which the user can vote against at election-time\u00a0without needing<\/i>\u00a0to purchase shares of stock in some corporation in order to become enabled to vote against its CEO and other officials. Corporate dictatorship is what Mussolini proudly advocated for in 1920s Italy and called alternatively \u201cfascism\u201d and \u201ccorporationism.\u201d That\u2019s what we\u2019ve now got in the U.S. and its allied countries.<\/p>\n

One of the U.S. Government\u2019s mouthpieces, the neoconservative liberal website Slate (owned by<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the neoconservative liberal Donald Graham who had sold the neoconservative liberal\u00a0Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0to the neoconservative liberal Jeff Bezos), headlined on March 15th\u00a0\u201cThe DuckDuckGo Users Furious at Its Response to the War in Ukraine\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and tried to marginalize the opponents of censorship by pretending that all of them are far-rightwingers:<\/p>\n

More than 30,000 users on Twitter have responded to Weinberg\u2019s post with largely negative comments about the decision, accusing the company of engaging in censorship and injecting bias into search results. Breitbart ran a piece attacking DuckDuckGo as \u201cDiet Google,\u201d and high-profile\u00a0<\/i>libertarian YouTubers<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0have also told their followers to stop using it.<\/i><\/p>\n

DuckDuckGo\u2019s executives have been trying to quell the unrest. \u201cThe whole point of DuckDuckGo is privacy,\u201d Weinberg\u00a0<\/i>wrote back<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0to one of his critics. \u201cThe whole point of the search engine is to show more relevant content over less relevant content, and that is what we continue to do.\u201d The company also released\u00a0<\/i>an official statement<\/i><\/span><\/a>, which read in part, \u201cIt\u2019s also important to note that down-ranking is different from censorship. We are simply using the fact that that these sites are engaging in active disinformation campaigns as a ranking signal that the content they produce is of lower quality, just like there are signals for spammy sites and other lower-quality content.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

DuckDuckGo didn\u2019t originally set out to be a conservative-friendly \u201cfree speech\u201d platform, even though many of its users seem to see it that way.<\/i><\/p>\n

On March 10th, a thread was started at Reddit titled\u00a0\u201cWhelp no more DDG for me\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and users were asking there for recommendations of search-engines that are NOT being controlled by agents of the U.S. Government. Allegations were made there that the Brave Browser\u2019s Brave search-engine isn\u2019t censoring its finds. However, I have consistently found that the Brave search-engine is just as cleansed of finds that are in sites that America\u2019s billionaires and the Government they control blacklist as is Google and DuckDuckGo. Someone instead recommended \u2014 and it was seconded \u2014 \u201cYandex.\u201d That is a Russian search-engine, but \u2014 at least in America \u2014 it rides on the back of Google and thereby excludes finds that U.S. billionaires and their agents blacklist. I have tried other search-engines as well, but never yet found one that doesn\u2019t censor-out almost all of the sites that publish (or have published) my articles. In fact, I know that some excellent sites that publish or did publish my articles were closed down by the FBI, and that others have told me that they received warnings from Google to stop publishing articles from me. Almost all of the sites that publish my articles fail to show up in any search-engine when the article\u2019s title is web-searched. Instead, mirror-sites that automatically republish from sites that publish me show up, and sometimes ONLY such mirror-sites show up in a web-search for an article from me. You can try it yourself (such as by web-searching the title \u2014 including the quotation-marks surrounding it \u2014 of the first linked-to source in the present article, \u201cZelensky\u2019s Secret CIA-Nazi Ukrainian Government\u201d). Most of the finds are mirror-sites, not sites that actually accepted and published the article that I had submitted. The U.S. regime doesn\u2019t seem to be trying to crush mirror-sites, but only to crush independent publishers. And, so, independent publishers, in U.S.-and-allied countries, tend not to last very long, because they are blacklisted, by the billionaires and their Government.<\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse\u2019s next book (soon to be published) will be\u00a0AMERICA\u2019S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler\u2019s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change<\/i>. It\u2019s about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world\u2019s wealth by control of not only their \u2018news\u2019 media but the social \u2018sciences\u2019 \u2014 duping the public.<\/p>\n

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