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Google News, Censorship or Responsible Journalism?
MSTCrow5429 writes to mention an article published by WorldNetDaily attacking the policies and actions of Google News. The author takes issue with the practice of removing sites that offer very frank discussions about radical Islam and terrorism as "hate speech." Several sites have complained about removal including The Jawa Report, MichNews, and most recently The New Media Journal. In the termination email to The New Media Journal Google cited several stories as objectionable in order to further explain the action.
Fuck you, you jack-booted Western Zionist lackey of the anti-Mohammed hegemony!
Behead the infidels in the name of the religion of peace!
Furthermore, the neo-feudalist/libertarians who run WND should know that better than anyone; but that doesn't stop them whinging when their "principles" clash with their desire to belittle liberals.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
One of the reasons why the USA is hated not only by others of the World especially in the Islamic countries but also the Liberal/Left Wing faction is because the ordinary, common person has a lot of leeway to make decisions about their life without elitist interference. In most other countries, the common person has to basically bow down to the elite.
In Europe, there are still some old social rules that you cannot patronize certain restaurants if a member of the lower class even if you can afford to go there. In other words, the common person is told, "you better know your place!" In the Middle East, the imans or Islamic Religious rulers dictate how you live your life even to the type of clothes you wear such as jeans not being acceptable.
In this country, it is the liberals that have disdain towards common people. On the surface, they say they care so much for the common person but yet, look at people like John F. Kerry and similar people. They send their kids to elite private schools. Live in gated communities. Control neighborhood HOA's where pickup trucks are not allowed or must be parked inside a garage. Many corporate executives are liberals and the same type of disdain is shown towards rank and file workers. A person I know had a manager that was a proud Liberal Democrat and he was a jerk when it came to taking vacation. This person was told that vacation was a company benefit but it was considered a privilege to use it when and how. That manager also mentioned that the company gives him leeway to regulate the vacation benefit to where it can be used to reward his favored people such as getting time off around holidays such as 4th of July and Christmas where as the ones that were not favored can take vacation only during time periods other than Summer or Christmas.
I don't see why Google removed the New Media Journal articles. I just sat down and read them and they seemed perfectly Fair and Balanced.
John.
Linking to WorldNetDaily in any sort of positive light. Surely a link to a more intelligent site could have been found to discuss the censorship or lack thereof of Google News.
well-paid people tend to be more liberal than conservative
I find that a better way to a priori determine liberal/conservative bias is this:
Living on someone else's money - liberal.
Living on your own money - conservative.
It works in so many ways - young people are strongly biased towards liberal: they live with their parents. PHDs are strongly biased towards liberal: they have tenure. Rich people from old money are strongly biased towards liberal: they do not work for their money. Actors, singers, etc: they do not work for their money, they get paid to play.
Middle aged people are biased towards conservative: they have to earn their way. Rich people that earned the money themselves: the had to earn their way.
Look at the statistics - it really does align very well.
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This is a good question. Why are hate sites like Fox News, Worldnetdaily, Newsmax.com, and dennisprager.com (a jew who hates his fellow jews) allowed to be on the internet?
Please cite for me one, and I repeat for emphasis, just one act of terrorism that has been attributed to Hizb ut-Tahrir, but one stipulation first: any claims made by former Bush ally, Islam 'butcher of Andijon' Karimov, or his kleptocratic regime, Uzbekistan, doesn't count.
Even The Nixon Center's Cent.Asia wonk, Zeyno Baran, who I consider to be one of the most knowledgeable tankers regarding them, admits they aren't violent, even though he offers many valid cautions:
I am always interested in data about Hizb ut-Tahrir, please give up citations to the literature which led you to believe that Hizb ut-Tahrir is dangerously radical.
(i cited a Nixon realist to counter trotskyite dialectic from neoconservatives. i am going out of my mind...)
Rush Limbaugh is a perfect real world example of an oxycontinmoron
If you had any familiarity with the fever swamps of the Left, you would've known better than to make that asinine assertion.
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