-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Mike Powell <=-

 MP> Google has blocked a huge network of pro-China propaganda news websites

 AT> I can see what the writer of this story is saying about this: the
 AT> writer wants us to credit Google for standing up against China, and for
 AT> "stopping the spread of disinformation."

I took it as "Google doesn't want the competition". :)

 AT> But of course that's not what the story says to me. It sounds to me
 AT> like Google is reinforcing their grip on authority; the authority to
 AT> dictate what constitutes "propaganda."

Yes, it's back to the "trust the experts".  But they don't realize that trust
in "experts" is at an all time low because we've seen too many "experts" who
were out, standing in their fields (i.e. not really experts, but political
shills).

The good news is that this will open up the opportunity for other search
engines and make Google clean up their act or they will die.


... Luxuriantly hand-crafted from only the finest ASCII.
___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52

--- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32)