By Stephen Lendman
Source: StephenLendman.org
Google transformed itself from a search engine to online censor.
Last July, the World Socialist Web Site reported “changes to its search service to make it harder for users to access what it called ‘low-quality’ information such as ‘conspiracy theories’ and ‘fake news.’ “
It’s Google’s code language for blocking what’s most important to know, what reliable sites like WSWS report daily, publishing vital information conflicting with the official narrative the corporate media feature, all rubbish all the time on vital world and national issues.
RT is the most widely viewed news operation on YouTube, owned by Google – no surprise it’s using it to censor truth-telling content, considered detrimental to the national security state because it exposes what it wants kept secret.
RT’s popularity keeps growing, why it’s considered a threat. Last month, its multi-language videos were watched over five billion times on YouTube.
Google declared war on the operation in cahoots with Washington, pulling it from its YouTube prime ad list in America without notification, a despicable action. RT’s deputy editor-in-chief Kirill Karnovich-Valua commented saying:
“RT has been Google’s premium partner since 2010 and accredited to an official status of the most watched TV news network on YouTube.”
“The fact that RT is no longer included in the Google Preferred advertising list in the US in itself does not affect RT distribution and monetization on the platform.”
“Yet, it is absolutely unacceptable that, while there were no notifications of any policy changes sent to RT, such internal info appears to have been leaked to the US media by Google.”
“This speaks to the unprecedented political pressure increasingly applied to all RT partners and relationships in a concerted effort to push our channel out of the US market entirely, and by any means possible.”
Censorship is a flagrant First Amendment violation, Russia, its officials and English-languish news operations prime targets for vilification and undermining – notably after Moscow was falsely accused of US election hacking, no evidence ever presented proving it.
RT and Sputnik News are threatened. Washington demanded a company providing services to RT America register as a foreign agent.
The FBI is investigating Sputnik, unheard of actions, perhaps prelude to preventing them from reaching a US audience.
Both are highly respected news and information services, media operations, not Russian propaganda as falsely claimed, nothing fake about their reporting – worlds apart from deplorable US media, disinformation operations.
Vilifying Russia persists on many fronts, a recklessly dangerous situation, risking direct confrontation – what’s coming if things continue on their present course.
Desultory Heroics 
This only underscores that the high minded concept of free speech has always existed as a mere fig leaf in disguising the tyranny of the ruling elites. As long as one is echoing the establishment line, they proceed unmolested, and in some cases are even lauded. Those however, who dare to deviate from established propaganda, or worse, question the status quo, or even to dare to attempt in pulling back tyranny’s thin veil to glimpse the truth, become victims of the sort of tactics articulated here-their voice crushed under the boot of electronic censorship.
Sad but true. If the true test of one’s commitment to free speech comes when others are allowed to say what one finds deeply offensive, it seems most of the country is failing that test.
Yes, and it is epidemic. The majority seem to be stricken with the disease of political correctness-which is just a psychological muzzle serving to curb free speech.
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