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clhenry
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 Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject: Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites |
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It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to go through its many thousands of blogs to lock out the owners of anti-Obama blogs so that the noObama message is effectively squelched. Thus far, Google has terminated the access by blog owners to 7 such sites and the list may be growing. Boy, it must be nice for Barack Obama to have an ally powerful enough to silence his opponents like that!
It isn't just conservative sites that Google's Blogger platform is eliminating. For instance, www.comealongway.blogspot.com has been frozen and this one is a Hillary supporting site. The operator of Come a Long Way has a mirror site off the Blogspot platform and has today posted this notice:
I used to have a happy internet home on Blogger: www.comealongway.blogspot.com. Then on Wednesday night, June 25, I received the following e-mail:
Dear Blogger user,
This is a message from the Blogger team.
Your blog, at http://comealongway.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog. You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog.
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
It turns out that there is an interesting pattern where it concerns the blogs that Google's Blogspot team have summarily locked down on their service. They all belong to the Just Say No Deal coalition, a group of blogs that are standing against the Obama campaign. It seems the largest portion of these blogs are Hillary supporting blogs, too |
So much for free speech. |
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xavierx
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject: Re: Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| Rumor has it that it's Obama supporters falsely reporting those sites as Spam. Either way, it's dirty, pathetic tricks by people who must not have much faith in their candidate.
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mommabear
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:49 am Post subject: Re: Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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I have been hesitant to post this update because I cannot find a link to prove the claim, but it is starting to look like this Blogspot shut down of anti-Obama sites occurred because of a concerted effort by Obama supporters.
What they did was go to the Blogspot addresses found on the site of the NoObama coalition called Just Say No Deal and constantly hit the "mark as spam" link so that Google's Blogger would be flooded with spam warnings. This caused Google/Blogger to freeze the sites marked.
Apparently, this campaign merely took advantage of Google/Blogger's flawed system of finding spam blogs. So, it looks like what we have here is an Obama dirty trick to shut down political opposition. Looks like Obmatons aren't much for that whole democracy thing, eh?
Once I find a link to an Obama site talking about this attack, I will post it. |
That's the UPDATE. Perhaps it was missing when you started this thread?
If true, this just looks like a blogger war. Even NB hasn't gone so far as to say the official Obama campaign is suspected of orchestrating it.
It reminds me of the anonymous email campaign tactics in 2004 from the Right. Nobody here on the Right thought that was unfair, did they? |
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Sgt Schultz
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:20 am Post subject: Re: Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| Rumor has it that it's Obama supporters falsely reporting those sites as Spam. Either way, it's dirty, pathetic tricks by people who must not have much faith in their candidate. |
Are you taking the rumor on face value? What evidence is there to support the rumor? |
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kenmabmcc
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:57 am Post subject: Re: Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| Have not seen any independent reports of Google shutting down Anti-Obama sites. |
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ejward
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:34 am Post subject: Re: Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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Has Google officially endorsed Obama as the post says?
NOTE: By asking a question I am not expressing my opinion on the article. I am just looking for information. |
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mommabear
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject: Re: Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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I searched "Google endorses Obama" and came up with zilch on the first 3 pages.
Here's the background on Warner Todd Huston, who put the article on NB's blog:
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http://newsbusters.org/bios/warner-todd-huston.html
Warner Todd Huston's thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, townhall.com, mensnewsdaily.com and americandaily.com among many, many others. Additionally, he is increasingly sought as a guest on talk radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book "Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture" which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions :
My Other Sites
http://conservablogs.com/publiusforum/
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clhenry
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| Nobody here on the Right thought that was unfair, did they? |
Don't put me in with that group. If its not a bunch of lies, i believe in free speech. Always have. If i did i was wrong, but i don't remember ever saying that. |
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xavierx
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject: Re: Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| Sgt Schultz wrote: |
| xavierx wrote: |
| Rumor has it that it's Obama supporters falsely reporting those sites as Spam. Either way, it's dirty, pathetic tricks by people who must not have much faith in their candidate. |
Are you taking the rumor on face value? What evidence is there to support the rumor? |
No, just reporting what some of those sites that got shut down were saying - basically the same as what Mommabear posted (which wasn't on that particular site when I looked, but was on others). Since there is no evidence to prove either assertion, it's hard to tell which is true. It is clear from the evidence of who was shut down that someone (or some people) has an agenda against anti-Obama blogs, which shows little faith in their candidate to me. |
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mommabear
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:29 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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It has nothing to do with their faith in a particular candidate. They're idiots with too much time on their hands. The world is full of them. Left and Right. They're the internet version of the petty vandal, using a keyboard instead of a can of spray paint.
They shouldn't be confused with 527 type-organizations, though. That's a whole different political animal. |
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