Since this is a day ending in 'y', it means Google fucked up at something. And this story so clearly points to a conspiracy that one wonders why no other blogs have picked it up.
Google Groups once carried misc.health.alternative - just as it purports to carry all the other countless newsgroups that are out there. But this week, I read that Google dropped this group and gave users this message: "The group named misc.health.alternative has been removed because it violated Google's Terms Of Service."
I thought this had to be just a misunderstanding - until I tried looking for this group on Google and found it was true. Google has deleted this group from its supposedly "complete" Usenet archives and from its Google Groups service.
Google doesn't specify how a group about alternative medicine violates its terms of service. For one thing, it's not a Google group. It's a Usenet group, and Usenet is not owned by anybody, let alone Google. For another, how can the subject matter possibly violate its terms?
Supposedly, Google started blocking this group as a warning to one of its users who allegedly violated Google rules. In other words, one person abused it, so Google blocked everybody else. That's like if the highway department closes an entire road because one person runs a stop sign. So I don't believe that was the reason. No sirree!
I believe with almost 100% certainty that Google blocked this group because drug companies wanted it blocked due to its subject matter. I'm convinced of it. After Google yanked this blog's AdSense account because of its political views, what other conclusion is there?
At the same time, however, Google carries newsgroups that are designed only as attack groups and don't have a shred of redeeming value. Google even carries groups that were founded to defame specific individuals who aren't even public figures.
To sum up, we can say with near-certainty that Google deleted an alternative medicine group just because Big Pharma told it to. That's what Google has stooped to.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Google censors newsgroup
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Alternative medicine is BS.
ReplyDeleteAs if corporate medicine isn't.
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ReplyDeletePeople actually pay for corporate medicine, so no, it isn't.
ReplyDeleteTranslation: Corporations are getting rich off of it.
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"One person (me) kept their entire movement out of the county. And of all the counties for this to happen."
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As if you've ever contributed a damn thing.
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"What a stupid argument."
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You should be some sort of bookie or something. You said both Brown and Christie would lose.
ReplyDelete"ecause I've joined several Facebook groups designed to counter the War on Drugs propagandists, the drug warriors have asked me why a working guy like me - who probably had to take a drug test for work - opposes drug tests for unemployed welfare recipients"
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Your brain doesn't work.
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ReplyDeleteTo repeat: So where's your book, Gufus?
ReplyDeleteOut there not sucking.
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ReplyDeleteIt looks like misc.health.alternative is back online. I guess Google got caught with its pants down.
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