Google to Censor Blogger Blogs on a ‘Per Country Basis’

Via: Threat Level: Google has quietly announced changes to its Blogger free-blogging platform that will enable the blocking of content only in countries where censorship is required. Twitter announced technology last week addressing the same topic. It said it had acquired the ability to censor tweets in the countries only where it was ordered removed, [...]

Pro-SOPA ‘CreativeAmerica’ Literally Resorts To Buying Signatures

by Mike Masnick I’ve received very credible evidence, that a consulting firm hired by CreativeAmerica is now offering to pay people to get signatures on CreativeAmerica’s petition. The following email was forwarded to me, with some details redacted to protect privacy… CLICK FOR FULL STORY

Tech Giants Under Fire for Conspiracy to Suppress Employee Wages

Brandon Turbeville Activist Post If current events continue in their present direction, seven of the world’s largest and most influential tech companies may have to pay anywhere from 5% to 10% of the yearly earnings of tens of thousands of their employees. Not only that, but these payouts may have to be calculated all the [...]

UK D-Notices to Go Worldwide

Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 26, 2012 Google and the British government are working together to sweep websites into Orwell’s memory hole. It is a joint effort that will soon go worldwide as the global elite continue to build and refine their censorship apparatus. Google told The Telegraph today that national security is “the single biggest [...]

Google Admits It Will Track Everything Its Users Do, No Opt Out

January 25th, 2012 In other words, Google now admits doing things that Cryptogon readers have known it has been doing for about a decade: Tracking everything. Via: Washington Post: Google said Tuesday it will follow the activities of users across e-mail, search, YouTube and other services, a shift in strategy that is expected to invite [...]

The Secret Facebook of Power

Via: Register: “It wasn’t secret, we just didn’t need to tell anyone about it” said Sid Heaslip, Programme manager at Opentext discussing the TOP SECRET FACEBOOK OF POWER that his company made for the G20 summit in 2010, exclusively for the leaders of the world’s most powerful nations to network with. Despite keeping the network [...]

Stalinist Stanford “Visiting Scholar” Wants Search Engines to Warn People About Websites That Contain Conspiracy Theories, Browsers Should Flag Information That Does Not Conform to Mainstream Views

Via: Slate: Well, perhaps, it’s time to accept that many of these communities aren’t going to lose core members regardless of how much science or evidence is poured on them. Instead, resources should go into thwarting their growth by targeting their potential—rather than existent—members. Today, anyone who searches for “is global warming real” or “risks [...]

SOPA and PIPA Fully Alive — And a New Bill Joins Them

Heather Callaghan Activist Post Many of us breathed a sigh of relief when an overwhelming amount of Americans banned together and voiced their opposition to Congress over both the Stop Online Piracy Act, and Protect Intellectual Property Act. Sites that dimmed the screen for a day or two have gone back to normal — Facebook [...]

Increased Military Traffic Seen Across North America

Amir Alwani, Contributing Writer Activist Post Yesterday morning (January 20th, 2012), around 4 a.m. I stumbled upon 20-30 tanks on train cars here in Halifax, Canada (click here to see Google map). Unfortunately, I didn’t have my camera with me at the time and when I came back to film no more than 15 hours [...]

Google Is Already Using SOPA-Like Censorship

Web giant blacklists websites, follows government orders to remove material Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Thursday, January 19, 2012 Despite Google’s much-heralded support for the anti-SOPA movement, the web giant is already enforcing SOPA-like policies of its own, blacklisting legitimate websites from its news aggregator and following government orders to remove material from its search results [...]

Twitter fights Google over “bad” search technology

It’s a battle of the Internet bigwigs in Silicon Valley. Following a change in Google’s search feature format, Twitter has challenged the move as a “bad” one for the Web giants. Under a new feature for Google, the search engine will filter results for its patrons through a platform called “Your World,” which aims to [...]

Reddit Plans To Black Out Site For A Day To Protest SOPA/PIPA

by Mike Masnick, Techdirt In conjunction with next week’s House Oversight Committee hearing on the technical impact of DNS blocking in bills like SOPA/PIPA, Reddit has taken the huge step of deciding to black out its entire site for a 12 hour period — from 8am to 8pm ET. The guys behind the site admit [...]

Google gets personal, searches your world, not just the Web

For Google, it’s personal. The Internet search giant is no longer going to roll out the same search results to everyone. Starting Tuesday, Google will pluck only the results most relevant to you — and not just from billions of Web pages but from the personal stuff that you and your connections privately share. CLICK [...]

Google Fined $65,000 For Defaming Search Suggestion

Published on January 8th, 2012. Written by Anthony West Today’s search engine is a mark of sophistication and many would consider easier to use. Google in particular is the biggest innovator in the search space and with things like ‘Search Suggest’, ‘Google Instant Search’ and other canny features, users are finding that there’s little heavy [...]