Is Google Working with Liberal Groups to Snuff Out Conservative Websites?

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Google revealed in a blog post that it is now using machine learning to document "hate crimes and events" in America. They've partnered with liberal groups like ProPublica, BuzzFeed News, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to make information about "hate events" easily accessible to journalists. And now, there are troubling signs that this tool could be used to ferret out writers and websites that run afoul of the progressive orthodoxy.

In the announcement, Simon Rogers, data editor of Google News Labs, wrote:

Now, with ProPublica, we are launching a new machine learning tool to help journalists covering hate news leverage this data in their reporting.
The Documenting Hate News Index — built by the Google News Lab, data visualization studio Pitch Interactive and ProPublica — takes a raw feed of Google News articles from the past six months and uses the Google Cloud Natural Language API to create a visual tool to help reporters find news happening across the country. It’s a constantly-updating snapshot of data from this year, one which is valuable as a starting point to reporting on this area of news.

The Documenting Hate project launched in response to the lack of national data on hate crimes. While the FBI is required by law to collect data about hate crimes, the data is incomplete because local jurisdictions aren't required to report incidents up to the federal government.

All of which underlines the value of the Documenting Hate Project, which is powered by a number of different news organisations and journalists who collect and verify reports of hate crimes and events. Documenting Hate is informed by both reports from members of the public and raw Google News data of stories from across the nation.

On the surface, this looks rather innocuous. It's presented by Google as an attempt to create a database of hate crimes — information that should be available with a quick Google search, it should be noted. But a quick glance at the list of partners for this project should raise some red flags:

The ProPublica-led coalition includes The Google News Lab, Univision News, the New York Times, WNYC, BuzzFeed News, First Draft, Meedan, New America Media, The Root, Latino USA, The Advocate, 100 Days in Appalachia and Ushahidi. The coalition is also working with civil-rights groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, and schools such as the University of Miami School of Communications.
ProPublica poses as a middle-of-the-road non-profit journalistic operation, but in reality, it's funded by a stable of uber-liberal donors, including George Soros's Open Society Foundations and Herb and Marion Sandler, billionaire former mortgage bankers whose Golden West Financial Corp. allegedly targeted subprime borrowers with "pick-a-pay" mortgages that led to toxic assets that were blamed for the collapse of Wachovia. The Southern Poverty Law Center, of course, is infamous for targeting legitimate conservatives groups, branding them as "hate groups" because they refuse to walk in lockstep with the progressive agenda. And it goes with out saying that The New York Times and BuzzFeed News lean left.

Is Google Working with Liberal Groups to Snuff Out Conservative Websites?
 
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They post this: (We are a community of racial realists and idealists. We are White Nationalists who support true diversity and a homeland for all peoples. Thousands of organizations promote the interests, values and heritage of non-White minorities. We promote ours. )

Yet they hate Jewish people my Dad fought for in WWll , This is (NOT) acceptable to me !!!!
 
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Bushmaster said:
They post this: (We are a community of racial realists and idealists. We are White Nationalists who support true diversity and a homeland for all peoples. Thousands of organizations promote the interests, values and heritage of non-White minorities. We promote ours. )

Yet they hate Jewish people my Dad fought for in WWll , This is (NOT) acceptable to me !!!!
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I find it reprehensible myself. The problem I have with is not that I agree with their content (I don't, however they do make a point that every other, race, religion, etc. has a special interest group except white people and if they try to form one it's already immediately branded as racist). The problem I have is the wholesale slaughter of free speech that is occurring in this country. That is far more dangerous than any potential reactionary that might be radicalized by a white nationalist message.

First it was the Confederate flag. Then it was the statute of the generals. Already you hear rumblings of taking down statues of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, etc. because they were slave owners. Anyone that doesn't agree with the progressive globalist point of view is automatically branded the worst thing you can call a white person: a racist. Once you get that scarlet letter, whether you deserve it or not, your life is pretty much over.

The best way to counteract white nationalist/neo-Nazi rhetoric is with opposing, peaceful speech. If and when the bullets start to fly then you have every right to shoot back (contrary to what the mainstream media says it was the Antifa goons who started the violence).

Trust me on this. Maybe not today, tomorrow or even next year but someday EVERYTHING that doesn't completely align with the far leftwing position will be banned or censored.
 
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Trolls could be working for these providers on forums such as ours or paid by the DNC or even NY State Police Gun Squad. This is why I am careful about feeding the trolls . I still have some faith in humanity. I know that America has been dumbed down, but I really find it hard to believe that people could be that stupid.
They have to be either getting paid or are simply acting stupid to get you to say something that gives them a reason to shut us down or make an arrest.
Here is a warning. When someone says yelling fire in a theater is not free speech, your Trollometer 1000 should peg.
The First Amendment Protects your speech from Government Interference or arrest. It doesn't do squat to private businesses or individuals.
 
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Bushmaster said:
They post this: (We are a community of racial realists and idealists. We are White Nationalists who support true diversity and a homeland for all peoples. Thousands of organizations promote the interests, values and heritage of non-White minorities. We promote ours. )

Yet they hate Jewish people my Dad fought for in WWll , This is (NOT) acceptable to me !!!!
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How'd that work out, did they save any?

Such a joke when people say stuff like that because America and FDR did nothing to help the Jews when they heard reports of the concentration camps. The Nazis didn't fire up the gas chambers and commence large scaling killing until after they knew the war was lost.

If we supposedly fought to save the Jews then we should have taken them in because Hitler offered them to us and we refused... so blame that bigot FDR. Then that fat ass degenerate Winston Churchill wouldn't give them Israel even though the Nazis suggested sending them back there.

Sometimes it's hard to figure out what side won WW2? After all the Germans were successful at ridding their country of most of the Jews and undesirable gypsies, gays, and retards. And the Jews got Israel after all so the whole thing was pointless, the stupid Brits should have allowed them in 10 years earlier and saved millions of lives.

Same argument that we fought the Civil War to end slavery because we loved Black people so much, hahaha. Sounds great 150 years later in hindsight but that's not the way it was.

As for the Daily Stormer I think it's a joke, they're trolling.

Also activists just doxed one of the Nazi flag wavers at Charlottesville. He's employed by the FBI. Hope he got paid overtime.

History is bunk.
 
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http://nypost.com/2017/08/20/why-cant-tech-firms-shut-down-terrorists-as-fast-as-they-do-nazis/


After the violence in Charlottesville, Va., some tech firms and social-media sites were quick to ban white supremacists — far quicker than they were when it came to scrubbing radical Islamic terrorists.

Yet the tech companies haven’t treated all “objectionable” sites equally. Even after the shooting attack that nearly killed House GOP Majority Whip Steven Scalise, or the violent rallies against conservative speakers, little if anything was done to shut down online violence-spouting left-wing extremists, such as the antifa thugs.

Which raises a key question: Can these mammoth custodians of information and public debate be trusted to fairly decide what’s objectionable?

True, as private entities, these firms may be within their legal rights to decide whom they’ll do business with, who gets to use their sites and how.

But given their near-monopoly status and enormous power to control thought and debate, that ought to make everyone nervous.
 
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Arjuna said:
http://nypost.com/2017/08/20/why-cant-tech-firms-shut-down-terrorists-as-fast-as-they-do-nazis/


After the violence in Charlottesville, Va., some tech firms and social-media sites were quick to ban white supremacists — far quicker than they were when it came to scrubbing radical Islamic terrorists.

Yet the tech companies haven’t treated all “objectionable” sites equally. Even after the shooting attack that nearly killed House GOP Majority Whip Steven Scalise, or the violent rallies against conservative speakers, little if anything was done to shut down online violence-spouting left-wing extremists, such as the antifa thugs.

Which raises a key question: Can these mammoth custodians of information and public debate be trusted to fairly decide what’s objectionable?

True, as private entities, these firms may be within their legal rights to decide whom they’ll do business with, who gets to use their sites and how.

But given their near-monopoly status and enormous power to control thought and debate, that ought to make everyone nervous.
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Who is watching the watchers?
 
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Arjuna said:
http://nypost.com/2017/08/20/why-cant-tech-firms-shut-down-terrorists-as-fast-as-they-do-nazis/


After the violence in Charlottesville, Va., some tech firms and social-media sites were quick to ban white supremacists — far quicker than they were when it came to scrubbing radical Islamic terrorists.

Yet the tech companies haven’t treated all “objectionable” sites equally. Even after the shooting attack that nearly killed House GOP Majority Whip Steven Scalise, or the violent rallies against conservative speakers, little if anything was done to shut down online violence-spouting left-wing extremists, such as the antifa thugs.

(1) Which raises a key question: Can these mammoth custodians of information and public debate be trusted to fairly decide what’s objectionable?

(2) True, as private entities, these firms may be within their legal rights to decide whom they’ll do business with, who gets to use their sites and how.

But given their near-monopoly status and enormous power to control thought and debate, that ought to make everyone nervous.
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(1)Absolutely not.

(2)Ask various bakers and other small businesses how that worked out for them. That "equal justice under the law" thing seems to be directly proportional to how much cash you supply to the DNC or other progressive causes.
 
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