Paranoia, thy name is Free Republic

A scary one for y'all this evening. When a poster has computer problems, Free Republic is on the case!

TBP is the first to suggest foul play:

The leftwingers at Google can eagerly cooperate with the Butchers of Beijing but try to ban conservative sites.

Nice to know that liberals are so conssitent.

Could google be secretly trying to do some social engineering? That would explain the liberal bias in today's youth!

Terpfen says it ain't so:

Google doesn’t filter content.

Not openly, anyway.

Of course Google would filter secretly! They're leftists. Lying is like breathing for them!

Then, 2 minutes later, the same poster decides he wasn't clear enough:

Google doesn’t filter content.

Guess again.

Well, that cleared things right up, then.

But it isn't till JerseyHighlander gets involved that the crazy really gets started:

Totalitarians of a socialist bent are gaming the Google threat detection and prevention system to deny access to views they deem a threat to their worldview.

Google has shown itself not to be lax, but an active participant in blocking the free speech over the internet of organizations that hold views opposed to by the staff of the Google corporation.

Google officially views you, your family, your neighbors, your community and the people of the United States as serfs without Constitutional rights, and they have now in the last month, clearly stated their position on your lack of humanity several times through their legal department.

Google has been hoisted upon this once beautiful thing called the “internet”, to be the jackboot to the throat of the people of the entire developed world.

Welcome to the new media, same as the old media.

Batten down your tin-foil hats, folks! The Google dictatorship is coming! Though it looks like it'll just be a changing of the guard compared to the CNNMSNBCCBS dictatorship I was part of and never knew.

Later, JersyHighlander elaborates on his manifesto:

Nefarious individuals coalesce around the idea of banning/blocking/denying access of conservative websites, they either find enough individuals to join their cause, or they build or rent out a botnet to send in abuse/spam/malware/ hate speech/child pornography complaints to various companies and organizations that maintain services that are blocklists. These companies include StopBadware.org, NetNanny, CastleCops etc.

FR has been blocked in the past through this method various times too. http://censorware.net/articles/01/06/16/0322210.shtml
http://www.google.com/search?q=freerepublic+blocked+at+ork&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Google has a problem because they are actively supporting (financially, publicity wise, and legally) non profits who have active members who are actively sending in false complaints against conservative websites. It’s very cozy on their side.

That's why no one can get to Free Republic! So when I worked for the government, and Adsense blocked all the blogs, except for Free Republic, it was only to lull me into a false sense of security! And when the men in white coats take JerseyHighlander away, that'll be part of the comspiracy too!