Usenet used to be the armpit of not just the Internet but of all of society. But, compared to the heavily censored social media sites of today, it's looking pretty good now. The harassment isn't as bad on today's social media as it used to be on Usenet, but the censorship is far, far worse - even though Usenet wasn't free of censorship itself.
Usenet is public. Social media sites are privately owned. That's one advantage Usenet has.
But now that some have expressed a renewed interest in Usenet because of the bottomless Big Tech censorship on social media, Google has now decided to end Usenet support. Starting in February, Google will no longer support posting new messages on Usenet or archive new Usenet content. Yet its archive of past Usenet content - which is full of forged posts, spam, and other garbage - will of course remain. Google refuses to allow users to delete their own content from this archive, much less remedy forged posts. It won't even post a disclaimer warning readers that much of it is fake.
Got that? Google promoted Usenet when it was the worse alternative, but is now dropping it as more people consider it superior. Is this Opposite Day or something?
Who is putting Google up to this? The federal government colluded with Twitter and Facebook to censor "disinformation" about COVID. I suspect that's what's going on here.
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