"Are Democrats Using Google To
Silence Free Speech?"
from "In Defense of
Rural America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
The following article
was published on Newswithviews, March 30, 2016
The Internet has brought an explosion of
information to the general public across the globe. Unfortunately, much of the
information we get from the Internet, whether it be by websites, e-mail, or on
social media, is un-vetted and much of it is misleading and simply not true.
Finding the truth can be a real chore sometimes, requiring hours of research and
even then the truth may be illusive. Yes, the information flowing unchecked in
cyberspace can lead to disagreements from time to time, but thankfully you can’t
throw a punch, or pull a trigger, on the Internet.
Nevertheless, the Internet, through all of its
medium forms, has provided a conduit for individual expression like never before
in the history of man. Opinions, thoughts, beliefs, ideas and images flow freely
to tens of millions of individuals in microseconds, every minute, every hour,
every day. People of like mind can hook up at the speed of light and organize
forums around either specific or general subjects or issues at will. The free
flow of ideas, however flawed, is the very epitome of freedom. But what if someone could tamper with this free flow of ideas for a
political agenda, or any agenda?
The growth of the Internet has also led to the
formation of corporate giants like AOL, Facebook, Google, Instagram, Dell, HP,
Microsoft, IBM and thousands of smaller companies. The corporate profits
generated by the Internet are in the tens of billions of dollars every
year.
Unfortunately, one of the drawbacks of corporate
giants, awash in cash, is the wielding of great financial and political power to
manipulate and exploit the people they allegedly serve. We ran into that
manipulative power just recently when we discovered that some conservative
authors, including us, are being silenced by a tricky Google tactic (yes,
Google) through their web browser, "Google Chrome," by attaching a Security
Alert to any website that doesn’t fit the Google liberal narrative. On the
Newswithviews website (http://www.newswithviews.com)
Google has attached a Security Alert to over half of the
authors that write for this conservative, on-line publication. In further
research, we found that other websites offering a conservative point of view
have also been targeted by Google Chrome’s Security Alerts.
Google’s Security Alerts advise the reader that
the particular website they have logged onto may contain Malware and advised to
go back to a "safe" page. The Alert is clearly bogus and obviously done for
political motives in a highly charged presidential campaign season. Ironically,
these Security Alerts only happen with the Google Chrome browser. We could find
no such tampering with other browsers. Who controls Google Chrome? Google of
course.
Now, if you are thinking that this is just an
isolated incident, or an accident, or a coincidence, or a quirk of the Google
Chrome browser, think again. The Google Chrome Security Alert suddenly appeared
on multiple conservative articles a week or so ago, right after Donald Trump
held up an article from the Newswithviews website and the website received over
3,000,000 hits in one day. One might ask, why would Google do this? The answer
is simple and glaring.
The political ties to the Democrat Party of Google founders,
Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, including thousands of Google employees, is well
known: From one source we learned that:
"Few Silicon Valley companies have
ever embraced a political party as passionately as Google has. Its executive
chairman, Eric Schmidt, has been described as a "kind of guru" to President
Obama's campaign manager, and Google employees emerged as the No. 2 donor to the
Democratic National Committee in the last election."
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To Google’s Board of Directors:
Larry Page Sergey Brin Eric E. Schmidt L.
John Doerr Diane B. Greene John L. Hennessy Ann Mather Alan R. Mulally Paul S.
Otellini K. Ram Shriram Shirley M. Tilghman
I am a national author and president of a
non-profit corporation that acts as advocates for the American rural landowner.
I have been writing a conservative weekly column for 10 years. I have a
significant following.
Just recently, I have found many of my articles and
many other conservative articles are being tagged with a SECURITY ALERT, for
those users using Google Chrome, driving people away from our right to free
speech. With specificity, many of the authors that write for the on-line
magazine www.newswithviews.com have been targeted for this Security Alert treatment. But Google is
also targeting other on-line publications with this treatment as well.
Google's Mission is, according to the Google website:
"Focus on the user and all else will follow."
"Since the beginning, Google has focused on providing the best
user experience possible. Whether we’re designing a new Internet browser or a
new tweak to the look of the homepage, we take great care to ensure that they
will ultimately serve you, rather than our own internal goal or bottom line. Our
homepage interface is clear and simple, and pages load instantly. Placement in
search results is never sold to anyone, and advertising is not only clearly
marked as such, it offers relevant content and is not distracting. And when we
build new tools and applications, we believe they should work so well you don’t
have to consider how they might have been designed differently."
Does focusing on the user mean censoring what he or she writes? Is that
your mission Google Board of Directors?
If that is your mission, then you are un-American and show
a perverse propensity for progressivism, socialism, or even communism. Or, you
just want to shut up and silence any other debate except the liberal view you
obviously hold.
Google has immense power. With power comes responsibility,
or that power descends into absolute power.
Which is it Google?Remove the SECURITY ALERTS now from your Google Chrome browser! Or lose your stellar reputation via the very medium you exploit to advance a political agenda and make huge profits.
We will be sharing this message with thousands of other Internet users.
Ron Ewart, President
National Association of Rural Landowners
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If you are as angry as we are that Google, a
great provider of Internet information and services, would under handedly use
its immense cyber power to silence opposing views to their own liberal views by
electronic trickery, using the Google Chrome browser as its weapon, then perhaps
it is time to shut down the Google Investor Relations e-mail address with
messages of your displeasure to the Google Board. It will cost you but a few
minutes of your time and you can do it right from your own desktop, laptop,
Ipad, or Iphone, using the very Internet that Google is abusing for political
purposes. Get creative. Do it today. But keep it clean, pithy and professional.
Expletives and pejoratives detract from any message.
Google is a huge corporation with unimaginable
financial and political power with direct access to President Obama and his
administration. To have any effect at all, this article must go viral. It takes
millions of people to make a difference in America today. The Internet gives the
people the power and the voices to coalesce around an idea or an issue and
overcome the power of giant corporations and government. That is if the people
aren’t totally distracted by drugs and entertainment and hopelessly apathetic,
like we see on the O’Reilly Factor’s Water’s World.
Will you take action by sending your displeasure
to the Google Board of Directors for trying to silence free speech? It is
our firm wish that thousands of you will do so. Use your
voice to make a difference!
If you did send an e-mail message to the
Google Board, let us know HERE. Constructive comments are
welcome.
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NOTE: The foregoing
article represents the opinion of the author and is not necessarily shared by
the owners, representatives, employees, or agents of the
publisher.
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Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org) an advocate and consultant for urban
and rural landowners and a non-profit corporation headquartered in
Washington State. He can be reached for comment at: info@narlo.org.
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