[Ed note: This story was originally posted 2019-08-15 04:41 UTC but was lost when we had the site crash Thursday morning. Prior comments have, unfortunately, been lost. --martyb]
'Google Blocked TorrentFreak From Appearing in Search Feature'
Documents released by whistleblower Zachary Vorhies suggests that Google actively blocked hundreds of sites, including TorrentFreak, from its Google Now service. The blocklist doesn't provide a specific reason for the blockade, but other sites are flagged for having a high user block rate or for peddling hoax stories. Vorhies has shared the documents with the US Department of Justice.
At TorrentFreak, we have written hundreds of articles about website blocking and censorship. Today, we're featured in one ourselves.
Leaked Google documents reveal that TorrentFreak.com shows up in one of Google's previously unknown blocklists, which actively hides our domain from the Google Now service.
Google Now was a Google search feature that presented users with informational cards, to provide users with more details on subjects of interest to them. While the brand no longer exists, the feature is still present in the Google Android app and its feed.
The controversial blocklist is part of a treasure trove of files that were leaked by whistleblower Zachary Vorhies, who shared them with Project Veritas. The entire collection of files uncovers many previously unknown policies and actions from Google.
The story that broke SoylentNews™.
See also (Zachary Vorhies in the news): YouTube Software Engineer Describes Seeing Altercation In Building Courtyard
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Previously: Veritas Claims Leaked Internal E-Mails from Google Showing Political Bias of Results
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday August 16 2019, @05:06PM (3 children)
And her mother is, no doubt, a better qualified coroner that the one signing the death certificate after an autopsy, right?
Yes, there are so many ways of reading textual information printed in latin alphabet. But only the most advanced in the arcane knowledge are able to grok a goverment document.
Yes, yes. Tens of witnesses are delusional. As also delusional is Capt. Steward “Nick” Barrell, of the Charlottesville Fire Department [richmond.com] (cause everyone knows that the firemen must be nuts trying to save people from fire and whatnot).
His testimony is trully outworldish, unbelievable and very biased "Barrell knew Heyer was in trouble. She had a large contusion on her chest and a laceration on her leg. Her condition appeared to be consistent with cardiac arrest and other significant trauma, so Barrell called for her immediate evacuation, he said."
And "that blood samples collected from Fields’ Dodge Challenger matched Heyer’s DNA" was surely planted there.
Besides, those inept authors are publishing rubbish [nih.gov] in that dirty rag called "journal of emergency, trauma and shock" that says "Cardiac contusion, usually caused by blunt chest trauma, has been recognized with increased frequency over the past decades. Traffic accidents are the most frequent cause of cardiac contusions resulting from a direct blow to the chest...Although death is rare, cardiac contusion can be fatal. We present a case of cardiac contusion due to blunt chest trauma secondary to a fall impact, which manifested as cardiogenic shock.
...
A 47-year-old man was referred to our hospital after a fall impact from a height of 6 m."
(a fall from 6 m gets the speed on impact of 10.84 m/s or 24mph. Usain Bolt got an avg speed of 10.44m/s)
Surely, the spergs on /pol/ are so much credible - they have all the information at their fingertips and then something more, clairvoyance most likely.
She would have died even if the car didn't plunge into the crowd, there's no causal relation between the car and her death, everything is an unfuckingbelivable chain of unfortunate events, right? Fields-whats-his name is innocent, you must acquit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday August 16 2019, @05:42PM (2 children)
Not saying the guy was totally innocent. Am saying the local government is utterly and irredeemably corrupt to the point 4chan's autism analysis of the hard video evidence is more credible. He appears to have panicked after Antifa brandished semi-automatic rifles at him and the crowd he found blocking his escape began trying to destroy his vehicle and pull him out of it. Of course an equally strong argument could be made that his reaction to the situation was entirely justified and rational. What would YOU do? Do you consider yourself a "reasonable person"? That is the legal test you know, would a reasonable person have considered their life in immediate danger. Maybe one of the three vehicles that were set in motion hit the woman, maybe she was pushed by someone else and hit something, but the fact is that isn't what killed her. You are in agreement it was heart failure. With paramedics on the scene that should not have been fatal. What else isn't debatable is that even if guilty the typical sentence is on the order of five years, not four hundred. That makes it a miscarriage of justice by any sane definition of the term. Do you dispute that?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday August 16 2019, @06:55PM
Local fire department too? And local justice is also part of the local govt?
In no way heading towards a crowd made of the same as those supposedly threatening me. Letting aside justification and higher rationality, even a wild animal under threat won't head into the crowd and I would expect a higher cognitive function (even if not totally rational) from a human.
Charlottesville car attack [wikipedia.org]
So let me get this straight:
1. backs up for one block.
2. speeds fwd and hits the crowd
3. backs up several block
If he was threatened when he backed up at step 1 and didn't continue to backup, how come he didn't feel threatened to back more than that at step 3?
His reaction in step 2 is not consistent with even as low as survival or conservation instinct, much less with rationality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @07:53PM
Whatever I may have done in the situation, I would not have pleaded guilty if I legitimately felt I had no other way out.