06-10-2013, 07:05 PM
It's nice to see more hard evidence presented on this. Like Albert, I have been aware for a good few years that this sort of manipulation goes on. It's not just excluding certain url's from YouTube search results either, there is also manipulation of the viewing stats. I can't link to corroborating articles right now but I've certainly read several claiming, with solid evidence, that particular video counters are reset and/or the stats are incrementing on a 1 for 2 or 1 for whatever basis.
It's not just YouTube either, Google results on regular non-MS news web searches are suspect too. I have found it especially difficult to find articles on Sana, Press TV and others on the current Syria shenanigans for example. Visibility of the 'right' stuff and invisibility of the 'wrong' stuff, is key when these real-time black ops are progressing. My sense is that Gen Keith Alexander and his NSA cyber-warriors have made enormous strides in securing precisely that kind of advantage over the last few years. It's another - but very effective - way of manipulating reality for the masses.
My solution - partial but better than nothing - is to use a distributed search engine called YaCy. It's a peer to peer system and completely independent of Google or any other search engine. Difficult to explain the concept technicals but briefly, you can specify the sites you are interested in and it will crawl them and store every url + summary, on your own machine. Searches also encompass the url's stored on every other client currently connected to the system, which usually number in the tens of thousands. I currently have about 10 million url's stored and it only takes up a few Gb. I don't bother with any MSM sites because Google is fine for them - Apart from tracing and tracking you anyway and I try to screw them up a bit on that by regularly deleting their cookies and using various VPN's. I must admit it is damn near impossible to keep them out of your life though ::fury::
It's not just YouTube either, Google results on regular non-MS news web searches are suspect too. I have found it especially difficult to find articles on Sana, Press TV and others on the current Syria shenanigans for example. Visibility of the 'right' stuff and invisibility of the 'wrong' stuff, is key when these real-time black ops are progressing. My sense is that Gen Keith Alexander and his NSA cyber-warriors have made enormous strides in securing precisely that kind of advantage over the last few years. It's another - but very effective - way of manipulating reality for the masses.
My solution - partial but better than nothing - is to use a distributed search engine called YaCy. It's a peer to peer system and completely independent of Google or any other search engine. Difficult to explain the concept technicals but briefly, you can specify the sites you are interested in and it will crawl them and store every url + summary, on your own machine. Searches also encompass the url's stored on every other client currently connected to the system, which usually number in the tens of thousands. I currently have about 10 million url's stored and it only takes up a few Gb. I don't bother with any MSM sites because Google is fine for them - Apart from tracing and tracking you anyway and I try to screw them up a bit on that by regularly deleting their cookies and using various VPN's. I must admit it is damn near impossible to keep them out of your life though ::fury::
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
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"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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