Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
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Re: Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
#2>The WSWS has been blacklisted in searches dealing with history, and in particular historical topics related to the revolutionary struggles of the 20th century. These include the terms “Russian revolution,” “Bolshevik revolution” and “October revolution,” all of which returned results in the top 50 in April
That's probably ... correct.
Re: Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
#3>The WSWS has been blacklisted in searches dealing with history, and in particular historical topics related to the revolutionary struggles of the 20th century. These include the terms “Russian revolution,” “Bolshevik revolution” and “October revolution,” all of which returned results in the top 50 in April That's probably ... correct.
Blaming their own SEO failure to censorship. Sounds pretty left to me.
Re: Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
#4When Google, Facebook, and others announced that they were banning "fake news", many on the left cheered.
But it was probably naive to assume Google would limit itself to censoring political opinions with which one disagrees.
Re: Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
#5>The WSWS has been blacklisted in searches dealing with history, and in particular historical topics related to the revolutionary struggles of the 20th century. These include the terms “Russian revolution,” “Bolshevik revolution” and “October revolution,” all of which returned results in the top 50 in April That's probably ... correct.
Blaming their own SEO failure to censorship. Sounds pretty left to me.
Why?
Re: Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
#6> These findings make clear that the decline in Google search traffic to the WSWS is not the result of some technical issue, but a deliberate policy of censorship.
Quite a claim.
Re: Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
#7>The WSWS has been blacklisted in searches dealing with history, and in particular historical topics related to the revolutionary struggles of the 20th century. These include the terms “Russian revolution,” “Bolshevik revolution” and “October revolution,” all of which returned results in the top 50 in April That's probably ... correct.
What do you mean?
Re: Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
#8>The WSWS has been blacklisted in searches dealing with history, and in particular historical topics related to the revolutionary struggles of the 20th century. These include the terms “Russian revolution,” “Bolshevik revolution” and “October revolution,” all of which returned results in the top 50 in April That's probably ... correct.
Why is that correct? Looking at their website they're currently running a lecture series/look back at the Russian revolution: http://www.wsws.org/en/special/1917/chronology.html
None of it seems to be conspiracy theory or low-quality material.
Re: Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
#9Meh, I have a hard time caring about this because I want Google to block propaganda and misinformation. From my experience, socialist websites and forums tend to ignore, rewrite, or white wash the history of communism in Russia/USSR, Venezuela, and even North Korea. So much so that the No True Scotsman fallacy should just be the No True Socialist fallacy. Go check out /r/socialism if you want your head to spin. According to that sub, there were no famines in the USSR, Stalin never killed anyone, and everything bad we hear about Venezuela is just media bias. And then when it's objectively true and can't be dodged, they aren't really socialists.
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