(Copy of a post on"REPENTANTNADERVOTER.COM".):
I HAVE RECENTLY NOTICED THAT REFERENCES IN "REPENTANTNADERVOTER.COM" TO GEORGE W. BUSH'S $500,000.00 STINT AS AN F102 JOY-RIDER TRAINEE, INCLUDING INFO ABOUT HOW HE SKIPPED OUT ON HIS FLIGHT PHYSICAL SO HE COULD AVOID GETTING FRIED IF HE HAD HAD TO SHOOT DOWN A RUSSIAN HEAVY BOMBER IF ONE WERE TO ATTACK A U.S. CITY, HAVE MYSTERIOUSLY BECOME UNFINDABLE IN THE GOOGLE SEARCH SERVICE. (THOSE BOMBERS HAD DEAD-HAND SYSTEMS THAT WOULD HAVE DETONATED ALL THEIR HUGE NUKES, AND THE OLD F102'S AIR-TO-AIR MISSILES WERE VERY SHORT-RANGE.)
MY COMMENTS ON THIS ISSUE HAVE EXISTED ON THE SITE FOR SOME TIME NOW.
AND THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN FINDABLE IN GOOGLE! ! !
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Google's Gag Order:
An Internet Giant Threatens Free Speech
June 20, 2004
Overview
How "Adwords" works
Perrspectives ads dropped by Google
Arbitrary guidelines, unevenly applied
A vast-right wing coincidence?
"Michael Moore Hates America" OK by Google
Size matters
Others banned by Google
Google's unworkable editorial standard
The email history (UPDATED 8/1/04)
A Google Freedom of Information Act
Every once in a while in America's consumer society, a company, product or service rises above its mere utility to achieve iconic status in the culture. Its very novelty, innovation, or just manufactured "cool" allow it to enter the daily American lexicon. As nouns, brands like Kleenex (facial tissues), Rollerblade (in-line skates), or Coke (any soft drink south of the Mason Dixon Line) are equated with an entire product category, eclipsing all competitors. Others achieve the even loftier status of verbs, as in "to Xerox."
Google has joined this elite group of culture-changing brands. Starting with excellent technology, the company nurtured a cult following into dominance of web searching, a daily task now common to most Americans. Its IPO has become one of the dominant business - and social - news stories of the year.
Far more important to American society, Google's pervasiveness has given it a unique and privileged role as the information gatekeeper of the 21st century. "To Google" someone or something has become synonymous with using the Internet to find information, images or news. The New York Times has detailed the emergence of Google as an alternative to the traditional library for research. As individuals, businesses and publishers leverage its search, email and advertising tools to reach readers, sell products and assemble communities, Google is on the verge of becoming the Internet arbiter of the First Amendment.
As I learned this week, however, Google may be playing a darker, more sinister role in American society: corporate censor. On June 15, the Google Adwords team informed me that it had discontinued all advertisements placed by Perrspectives.com due to "unacceptable content" on the site that includes "language that advocates against an individual, group or organization." As we'll see below, this may or may not be blatant bias against liberal viewpoints. There can be no doubt, though, that the current Google editorial guidelines, evenly applied, would bar almost any newspaper, magazine, opinion journal, political party, advocacy campaign or even religious organization from advertising on its site. And that puts Google dangerously at odds with core American values of free speech and assembly.
Electronic Direct Marketing for the Masses?
How did Google come to pose a clear and present danger to free speech in the nexus where opinion and Internet direct marketing meet?
First, a little background. The Google Adwords program allows advertisers, large and small, to purchase and display small text advertisements in the right hand side of Google search results pages:
On its face, Google Adwords is a godsend for direct marketers, allowing them to display customized ads when users enter a specific keyword or phrase. (Perrspectives.com, for example, has run ads when Google users enter terms such as "democratic party", "Enron scandal", "Richard Clarke" or "2004 election.") Advertisers pay "per click" rather than "per impression", which means they are only charged when a Google user actually clicks through to the advertiser's site. Even the smallest advertisers can specify how much they are willing to pay per click-through, as well as their daily budget. Just as important, Google Adwords provides real-time reporting of results, so advertisers can quickly see which keywords and ads are most effective, and make immediate adjustments, if needed.
Anti-Liberal Bias at Google?
The cost-effectiveness of Adwords for online stores, non-profits, specialty sites and even bloggers is extremely attractive. Since March, Perrspectives.com has used Google Adwords to bring thousands of visitors to the site. This makes Google's sudden decision to drop Perrspectives.com all the more disappointing - and disturbing.
On June 15th, 2004 the Google Adwords Team sent me a notification that all of my four-line text ads had been discontinued due to "unacceptable content." The ads involved included headlines such "The Liberal Resource", "The Progressive Resource", "Bill Clinton & More", "The Real Enron Scandal." The supporting text included expressions such as "analysis, commentary and satire", "complete liberal resource center", "caustic commentary", and others.
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If we want to keep our poor besieged butts out of the Master Matrix, we may eventually need to migrate away from the Internet(TM) entirely.
Think about getting a Firewire connected 250 MB or 750MB ZIP drive.
Firewire is intrinsically more flexible and stable than USB2, since it does not require the services of a massive CPU in order to function.
The ZIP drive disks employ a magnetic medium, and they can probably be expected to hold their data for at least 10 years, and perhaps many more (contrary to previous estimates).
However, the rewritable (and ordinary non-rewritable) optical disks use metal alloy / plastic resin laminated compositions that have recently revealed a tendency to disintegrate in about 3 years or less (contrary to previous estimates).
All removable media drives are fairly vulnerable to malfunction if exposed to grit and dust. The magnetic drives are vulnerable to external magnetic fields, although there is such a thing as magnetic shielding (typically involving moderately heavy metal containers).
The Internet is becoming increasingly "privatized"; the search engine services are becoming politicized, and Big Brother has been secretly watching the Internet(TM) more and more lately. Although you could be persecuted if a legal search turned up unlawful information on a removable disk you were found to be "holding," mass governmental control of data on publicly cirulated disks would be quite difficult, and perhaps basically impossible.