Google's search engine certainly has a large role in conservative-censorship because if you can't find an article, you can't read it. While at one time, I think Google's search highly favored sites with the most traffic, I think Google searches now favor anti-conservative views and especially anti-Trump views. For example, I just did a g…
Google's search engine certainly has a large role in conservative-censorship because if you can't find an article, you can't read it. While at one time, I think Google's search highly favored sites with the most traffic, I think Google searches now favor anti-conservative views and especially anti-Trump views. For example, I just did a google search for "border wall" and two of the top five pages are "Trump order to paint border wall black could drive up cost" by the Washington Post and "Trump's Border Wall Wold Go Through Laredo Historic District" by NPR. The anti-border wall slant continues on for quite a few of the top search results.
On the other hand, I don't think Twitter posting "Fact Check" warnings on tweets is going to have much of an impact on censoring conservative viewpoints. For example, I doubt anybody who supports Trump is going to believe that Twitter's fact-check sources have a credible argument that mail-in voting is not subject to fraud. Anybody who wants to see an alternate opinion to Trump's tweets simply has to check CNN/MSNBC or the Washington Post "Democracy Dies in Darkness." All censorship does is drive people to rely on sites they trust and the trend is for conservative sites (like Erick's) or RedState or TownHall to seek their own subscribers.
While conservative sources often quote/reference progressive articles, the same is not true in reverse, and "reader beware" is the only safe "fact check" for people who sincerely want the truth.
Google's search engine certainly has a large role in conservative-censorship because if you can't find an article, you can't read it. While at one time, I think Google's search highly favored sites with the most traffic, I think Google searches now favor anti-conservative views and especially anti-Trump views. For example, I just did a google search for "border wall" and two of the top five pages are "Trump order to paint border wall black could drive up cost" by the Washington Post and "Trump's Border Wall Wold Go Through Laredo Historic District" by NPR. The anti-border wall slant continues on for quite a few of the top search results.
On the other hand, I don't think Twitter posting "Fact Check" warnings on tweets is going to have much of an impact on censoring conservative viewpoints. For example, I doubt anybody who supports Trump is going to believe that Twitter's fact-check sources have a credible argument that mail-in voting is not subject to fraud. Anybody who wants to see an alternate opinion to Trump's tweets simply has to check CNN/MSNBC or the Washington Post "Democracy Dies in Darkness." All censorship does is drive people to rely on sites they trust and the trend is for conservative sites (like Erick's) or RedState or TownHall to seek their own subscribers.
While conservative sources often quote/reference progressive articles, the same is not true in reverse, and "reader beware" is the only safe "fact check" for people who sincerely want the truth.