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[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
America's Greatest Makers is like American Idol for geeks, so we talked to one
Previously: Veritas Claims Leaked Internal E-Mails from Google Showing Political Bias of Results
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @02:01AM (2 children)
I don't even see why people still use Google, ddg has better results just because it doesn't try to manipulate your opinion and track you. It takes your search string and returns matching sites...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @02:04AM
Generating -> degenerating
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday August 17 2019, @08:17AM
DDG is in virginia, all traffic in and out goes through usa TLAs and is shared in its entirety with israel, as is all traffick in most of europe.
And the owner is jewish, and at the moment anyone in 2019 who still would trust a jewish person with their privacy and search results has clearly lost their mind.
DDG is a psyop. "come here and get privacy" is a great advertisement to get better quality secrets.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @02:12AM (6 children)
This being the last story posted before things fell over, I don't think there were too many for this one. I had read the material and was about to post a comment myself when I got the 500s.
I read the "coffee beans" memo. Jeez, what are they trying to say? I get that when they say "orange", they mean "white / asian / male" and when they say "teal", they mean "black / hispanic / female". Of course incidence rates of quality coffee beans must be equal among the strains if they metaphorically stand for people. Would be crimethink otherwise. Yet the very next sentence exposes the inherent and accepted racism in this fantasy coffee industry by declaring there to be unlimited demand for "teal" coffee, and implies a limit for "orange" coffee. Would be crimethink if the colors they stood for were reversed.
Silicon Valley is batshit crazy.
(Score: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Friday August 16 2019, @04:54AM (5 children)
Nope. Not crazy, not insane, not deluded, not misguided. Evil. Google is Evil.
Only when we look it square in the eye and call it by its name do we have any hope of defeating it. And that is the second truth. We won't reform any of these converged institutions. They have to be destroyed. Google must be destroyed. No mercy, no debate, no compromise that leaves parts of it intact to reassemble like AT&T has after the breakup. Root and branch, Same for too many others to count.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @05:37AM (1 child)
Unfortunately I've also been gradually coming to the same conclusion.
At first I just assumed Google was either just going a bit overboard on identity politics and/or using such to try to get more women/blacks/browns/etc into computer science. They have around 100,000 employees many of them earning 6 figures a year. They spend billions to tens of billions of dollars just on labor per year. Increase the labor pool size, decrease the demand for said labor, decrease wages, earn $$$.
However, their continuing pattern of radicalized behavior matched with things such as this or their actions in China (where they were developing a censored search engine that would track users by tying their mobile to all searches/accesses and came with blacklists censoring such terms as, literally, "human rights") are gradually making me trend towards your conclusion as well. I have no clue whatsoever their motivation might be, but it seems to me that Google is trying to actively instigate a culture war of sorts. I suppose they might be conceiving of the notion that national instability could result in their own empowerment -- an October Revolution driven, as always, by masses of useful idiots. Indeed that term is not necessarily a pejorative but a descriptor allegedly coined by Lenin himself.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Arik on Friday August 16 2019, @06:22AM
They're chasing short term profits. The NSA and the Chinese equivalent are both very interested in making them 'evil' and will guarantee profits.
The advertising industry likes the same thing, and reliably forks over money as well.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday August 16 2019, @01:50PM (1 child)
Google is worse than evil. They're self-righteous.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @04:42PM
Lolololol
YOU calling ANYONE ELSE self-righteous is pretty hilarious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @10:03PM
"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @02:37AM
Anti-piracy list gradually expands into censoring undesirables and scoundrels. The mechanism is there, it would be dumb not to use it.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Friday August 16 2019, @03:00AM (15 children)
The docs I saw are pretty boring. A camera photo of some emails that's not really readable. A get-out-the-latino-vote person who said the objective goal of getting out the vote was achieved, but no one expected 29% would vote for Trump. A posting to some internal group about how to act in a protest, with example chants against the Muslim ban and similar policies. Some personal info about a diversity manager that seemed like doxxing.
Seems tame enough that my regard for Google will rise if that's the worst a "whistleblower" can find.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @04:16AM (14 children)
The way it works is they scream and yell and they figure most people don't have the time to dig in so they will assume where there is smoke there must be fire. They spent a decade doing it to Obama - all the birthers, the tan suit, the spicy mustard, inviting Common to the white house, Michelle's vegetable garden, they were relentless. They scream about everything in order to exhaust the reality-based community. [rationalwiki.org] The bullshit asymmetry principle [wikipedia.org] says it takes 10x more work to debunk their bullshit than it does to make up bullshit, they just hope to wear everybody down. The only way to win is to stop playing their game.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @04:30AM (3 children)
We literally have Eric Schmidt on tape vowing to do whatever he possibly can to help Queen Hillary win, and the Libtard Lie Brigade STILL wants to pretend that nothing suspicious is going on. Nopity nope! Just every single person who disagrees with Leftist Nazi Scum being kicked off social media! Total coincidence!
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Friday August 16 2019, @04:40AM
Blah. If a person whom I don't know tells me "they'll do what they can", I expect nothing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @04:44AM (1 child)
According to Brad Parscale, Facebook literally embedded a team with the trump campaign. [cbsnews.com]
Nobody did that for Ds. But yeah you keep on screaming.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @06:03PM
They didn't have to.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Friday August 16 2019, @04:50AM (5 children)
Vorhies put his career on the line and can expect huge legal bills. I wouldn't say that action is 10x less than reading his docs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @05:13AM (4 children)
Eh, its james okeefe's work that was pretty shallow here.
Voorhies's own words are self-damning, he claims google sent the police to do a wellness check on him before he quit. That means they thought he was mentally incapacitated. I'm sure that's just the tip of the iceberg, we are probably going to find out that he's cognitively vulnerable and okeefe worked him - okeefe is quite clearly a sociopath. I mean FFS Voorhies is an anti-vaxxer and a pizzagate believer, he worked at youtube and he still drank the kool-aid. The chance that this guy was making rational, sane decisions is about nil. Fucking yourself because you are stupid and incompetent is not the same as working hard.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Friday August 16 2019, @05:48AM (1 child)
It's not unreasonable to mistrust the authorities. They lie all the time. Anti-vax sentiment is an unfortunate consequence of that, but not necessarily irrational.
Maybe schools should have a science project where kids vaccinate some mice and not others in a blinded study. They can expose them all to a pathogen and see what happens.
Trust is a delicate thing that society needs to nurture. Berating skeptics and calling them deranged won't help.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @01:57PM
Amplifying every nutjob who calls himself a "skeptic" is 1000x more damaging to trust than accurately calling deranged people deranged.
The right to spout bullshit is not a right to be taken seriously. Your choice to take every nutjob seriously is a learning disability itself.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mer on Friday August 16 2019, @09:59AM (1 child)
the work culture at google is known to be sectarian and agressive towards non-conformity, not to sensibly advertise their ideas
maybe the guy started just as center right and got paranoid by working in a hostile environment
Shut up!, he explained.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @02:15PM
You say "known" as if its a fact. Haven't you figured out that the people who scream the loudest about being oppressed are really just wannabe oppressors unhappy that they've been thwarted? Its always projection.
"Look what you made me do!" [thenib.com] Bog-standard abuser projection.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @05:24AM (3 children)
And now we have Democrats doing the same. You think this is good? It's just as dumb as when the Republicans were doing it, only the Democrats pretended to be on the moral high ground.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @05:30AM (2 children)
Assertion unsupported by evidence. There is no democratic equivalent to the 200mph right wing rage machine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @10:23AM (1 child)
This is true. Totally unsupported assertion of false equivalency! It's like saying that it's alright for Runaway1956 to have carnal knowledge of livestock, because Democrats do it, too! Without, of course, providing any evidence for any Democrat engaging in personal animal husbandry, while Runaway's predilections are well known and need no citation. And gawd forbid, no video!! Not again!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @10:43AM
Just one State over, but the story is that when Lyndon Johnson was running for the US Senate, he told his campaign manager to accuse his opponent of being a pig-fucker. The manager said that it might be difficult to find evidence proving that, but LBJ said, "I don't care, I just want to hear the son-of-a-bitch deny it!" Runaway? The Pig is in your court, as they say.
(Score: 1) by yuhong on Friday August 16 2019, @04:13AM
I really wish my Google DoubleClick essay/overview would catch on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @04:35AM (2 children)
The real story is that silicon valley is run by very right-wing people. It makes sense, money & the right are inextricably bound (remember in that poem, they came for the socialists first, [ushmm.org] the jews were actually 3rd on the list). For example, Peter Thiel of paypal, facebook and palantir fame is a giant right-wing douche.
The latest example - the technical director of Google Cloud has been working with The Drudge Report for 20 years and his wife is running their ad business. [buzzfeednews.com]
Anyone who thinks silicon valley is liberal just can't see the forest for the trees.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @08:11AM (1 child)
>buzzfeed
OK.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @02:04PM
They've got multiple awards like the Polk and Pulitzer.
All you've got is dried jizz stains on your keyboard.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday August 16 2019, @08:11AM
If S/N can't soylent anyone else (the way slashdot could), at least it can soylent itself, eh? (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday August 16 2019, @08:14AM
And nothing of value was lost! Why did you bring it back, bytram, like some stinking zombe submission from Brietbarf of the depths of 4/4/16Chan? We could have gotten along quite well without it. Project Veritas is criminal shit. Zachary Vorhies needs a wellness check, and now Trump is talking about bringing back involuntary commitment for the criminally insane, which will cut down on the alt-right posters here, as well as elsewhere.
Godspeed, Marty. Just be more careful with the Powers of the Ed. With great Ed power comes, . . . you know.
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday August 16 2019, @04:53PM (12 children)
Everything about this is a psychological operation with the intention of poison pilling the movement to get israel out of the united states due to extreme failure to be an ally or friend in any way.
Infiltrating our country and abusing our 13 year old girls for profit is something that we real americans will never, ever forget or forgive and no amount of their bullshit is going to change that now.
Israe's human rights record is worse than china and their agents are operating in every country, and are effectively a global disease corrupting human society on a global level.
Israel is not a country, it is a cult. If your religion makes me agree with whatever Israel says or carry their water or remain silent in the face of child abuse and other injustice, then you are in that cult.
A religion is not a cult. Cults have no place in american government.
Michael Chertoff is one of the 'key position' isarel-first nutjobs who needs to be excised from the entire american government, so let's star with him.
You can see through this how nuts they are going over in the hasbara department over the epstein scandal, I can only imagine what lies they are planning to tell. But this is what a cult does, they are not trying to discuss with us or work out a solution, their plan is long term control and domination, and the muddying of the waters around this fact is the exact intention of this entire thing.
#iamnotanallyofisrael
#israelout
#arrestmichaelchertoff
#weknowthesecret
#victoriaisepstein
#ehudbarak&epstein
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday August 16 2019, @06:36PM (11 children)
I note two of your hashtags which I do not understand. The first is "I am not Anally of Isreal" - I haven't seen anybody accuse you of being that person, and secondly "Is Rael Out" - I didn't even know that Rael played cricket or for which team. I am unable to find any cricket reporting that answers your question. I know that England is not doing too well in the Ashes, but there is nobody called Rael on the scorecard.
I suggest that you increase the dosage of your meds.
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday August 17 2019, @07:49AM (10 children)
I apologize for the typos.
People really do enjoy to nitpick me, it doesn't matter how many correct words I type, and in this case I had just switched to a new browser so couldn't really see my text as well as I should either.
I am not an ally of israel is a hashtag intended to give people the power to deny and negate the cultural hegemony that the entity of israel is forcing on all americans without fair and open discussion through the use of a mass media manipulation scheme centered around what is known as CNN.
'Israel Out' simply means what it says, I don't want israel or any other country operating inside of my country. We are two separate countries so your spies and your propaganda has no place in my country.
I know you are kidding around. I am not. Do you really grasp the depth of this scandal?
If ehud barak lied about his knowledge of epstein's crimes, and he did, why should we trust him to be the one that tells us what's happening on the day of 9/11 when he was the first person on CNN?
I know people are gullible and lazy but I have have no more space in my brain for words from people who do not grasp this or who don't have the guts or heart to talk about it.
If we don't do anything, at this point, we americans would be simply submitting to rule by rich pedophiles from another country as an obvious plain fact.
So do you want to be ruled by rich pedophiles from another country which happens to be a fanatical religious mafia who thinks you are a subhuman? Is that funny to you?
Do you see yet that there is a reason these people do not want to argue with me and so are expending considerable resources to harass me, and this site?
Help me shut down victoria's secret with nonviolent direct action before israeli spies set up a psychological operation to make themselves the victim as is their modus operandi.
You will notice this week the damage control from the ZOG sources were
1 vice news ran a story on how we should recognize pedophiles are sick people who need help and we should pity them on the same day I tried to shut down the amsterdam victoria's secret.
2 the bogus project veritas story that linked a google leaker to qanon in order to poison pill all discussions of israeli's obvious attempt to control the united states from jerusalem
I am doing something about the problem to the extent that an entire government and international cult of child abusers is dealing with me on a personal, daily basis.
You are telling fart jokes.
#pickaside
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday August 17 2019, @08:03AM (9 children)
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday August 17 2019, @08:13AM (2 children)
This is the last remaining free speech platform, the issues I am discussing about what Victoria's Secret represents ties into all of those topics.
Law, science, technology, are all corrupted by these people, and this is the motivation behind a large number of the vulnerabilities being put into processors and software.
If we are not able to confront and discuss israeli corruption, soon we will not be ablet o confront or discuss any corruption.
And I think the internet does not want the united states to be a stooge of some chincy fanatical cult, but rather a proponent of liberal values and verdant order.
It is also somewhat of an emergency as I am clearly being threatened and whatever else you want to say about me, I am one of you, I study and work with technology as an operator.
So I understand your question but all of this connects. I am warning you that what I experienced indicates that the government of the united states actually attacks its citizens who say things it doesn't like, and in really, really mean ways that any objective person would describe as psychological torture.
Once they are done with me, who do you think they are going to come for next?
I'll tell you: You.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 17 2019, @09:02AM (1 child)
I find that hard to believe.
1. There are many remaining free speech platforms. It is rare to find one that doesn't delete at least a few comments, but they are out there. And the comments that are deleted at places like 8chan aren't about Israelis AFAIK. More like underage content.
2. SN survives in part because it escapes notice and has relatively few users. That is likely to limit its scalability and the impact of any particular free speech bombshell you have to drop.
3. A robust free speech platform, resistant to being destroyed regardless of scrutiny level, will need to be at least partially decentralized. Instead of threads, the final free speech platform might have to work more like radio: lots of incoming messages that you filter or tune into. Like Bitmessage.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday August 17 2019, @01:07PM
I appreciate this, thanks.
8chan is for anons, I am not anon. 8channers should be drooling all over the things I'm writing though. I just told you, due to my nonviolent action against victoria's secret, my nordvpn account was suddenly cancelled without even an email notification. I just confirmed a big question for them.
I tried reddit, facegag, twoot, lobsters, raddle.me, and I wrote over 100k words on steemit. Others too i can't remember them all.
I now believe all of these are run by either cops or some kind of psychological operation. I could find no one to engage with on any topic, only people ignoring everything I said to ask me cop-like questions and be hypercritical. Steemit is absolutely a police or military operation and it is totally disgusting. Raddle is worse, pretending to be a safe space, but it is obviously run by cops. Through steemit I tried to meet people at 'Peace Abundance and Liberty' and on dischord they simply tried to propagandize me to be a racist like they were robots programmed to do so.
It is not just the platform and tech here, it is the community and the quality of the lurkers. I believe the intelligence of the people who bother to post here would resist spam accounts and so far that has been proven correct. It happens but it is negligible. My works stands out here and I have found at least some people to connect with as oppose to other sites which is none.
Did you read what I wrote about in the psycicybin legalization thread? In the William Barr announcese end of citizen encryption thread? I don't think on any other platform anyone would appreciate as well what I am saying, and it would have a severe risk of being taken down. I don't know of anyone writing about the nature of the police state from the perspective I have seen it.
Basically I post here so that someone might copy and paste something I write to the chans or elsewhere and that might help me find more non-anons to work with. I don't know where else I could do that although I have some ideas where to try. I would like to try tildes but I need an invite.
Have you ever heard the phrase 'isolate the radical'? Yeah that is what my government did to me, they surround you with undercover cops even during your youth and college years, then when you are an adult you don't have any close friends, you find yourself trying to make them online, and meet yet more cops. Things like craigslist and okcupid and facegag simply put you in contact with more cops. You go to a festival and cops camp next to you. There were cops on my bus trip 3 days ago.
I am a person who has been harassed my entire adult life and I am reporting to you that this is what snowden was talking about when he said 'everyone will not be effected equally' by the surveillance. I am someone they want to silence, make disappear, permanently. Their plans to not include me or anything I have to say. My existence bothers their plans and they are using every means at their disposal to silence me. I know too much. I survived their psychological torture this far, barely, which makes me even more of a threat to whatever they are planning. They are doing these things to other people and me revealing their tactics ticks them off. They believe all the power should belong to them. They are totalitarians.
The present system hates me, and it is run by the same people who let Epstein roam free. I am not kidding, I was homeless living in my car in rural washington trying to take a nap in the afternoon and there were literally children dancing around my car unsupervised to try to entrap or bait me into some crime, and all the while the same system of police was completely overlooking what epstein and victoria's secret were up to, among other huge child protection scandals in arizona and georgia.
I understand why I warrant some scrutiny, I am an eccentric person, which I have to be to be original as a writer and etc. But I have never had an attraction to children or been accused of harming a child, the thought does not cross my mind. They have to know that, they are operating from an extensive psychological profile of me. But when you are on the list of people they want to isolate, this is a dirty trick they use to make you doubt yourself, to make others doubt you, to humiliate you, to threaten you with one false move and your entire reputation is done forever. They assume the worst of everything possible from everything you have ever written if you are not on their side, and the opposite if you are on their side.
This is incredibly evil. It is unamerican. I believe there are higher ups in the FBI who are simply israeli stooges, so justice for them is just about how to get their people into key positions in american government and society, and how to exclude everyone they won't be able to control. The better of an american I am the more they will attack me because they don't want good americans, they want good israelis and lackeys.
When they want to suppress you, they use everything they have on you to put you into a permanent investigation, then no matter where you go, in the fusion center they flag you immediately.
And the people determine who gets flaggedt, flag me, but not Epstein or anyone with a yacht.
And since I know this, and can testify and talk extensively about it, my life is at risk. I'm the opposite of snowden, I saw the business end of the stick and you should be scared. These people want to control all of history and my life story is not in it, because it would reveal the true nature of the system they are building while it is still under construction and not yet perfected.
Tell me where else I can share this message, who else besides soylentees need to hear it first, and I will go there.
But I think soylentees need to hear it first because like I told jan, once they are done with me, you are next in line.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday August 17 2019, @09:50AM (5 children)
Often, I want to ask this question of the janrinok, when he is rejecting all my subs in a given week. Are you sure, JN?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday August 17 2019, @10:47AM (4 children)
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday August 17 2019, @11:01AM (3 children)
Yes, but when it is five in a matter of fifteen minutes, and the language thing comes up, I know I have gotten under janrinok's skin! You should at least let them stew in the queue for a week or two, so interested Soylentils, like our dear Sulla, could have a look. Just in case.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday August 17 2019, @11:21AM (2 children)
Or you could put them in your journal, so that you can all discuss them. After all, that is what it is for.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday August 17 2019, @11:32AM (1 child)
What? Are you serious? With Snow, and Runaway, and Takyon? The Group W bench? No thanks!
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday August 17 2019, @11:39AM