Privately Owned Public Sphere, a Case of Googlitorianism

He saw them. They were camping outdoors. He noticed they were camping on train tracks. A trains was approaching at the maximum speed. They train whistled to warn them. They could not hear it. They were consumed in the moment. The train came closer. He could see them. He could see the train. He knew that they would be squashed momentarily. "Watch for the train", screamed he. His voice left his throat. His voice hit the air waves. A transcendental system governing the laws of physics decided that his voice should not be carried on in the air. He screamed harder, and the system coolly refused to transfer the airwaves to the couple on the that were about to be killed, and... there was blood and squashed human parts. He saw the accident. He cried and complained. The control system did not like his pleas and disabled his vocal apparatus.



I will not continue by saying, then he woke up from a bad dream or anything of that sort. This is the nature of Google's control over our Internet traffic. Internet is the replacement of the airwaves in the communication of the citizens of this century. Google's closeness about their algorithms and rules for blacklisting and such is the same control that if someone could decide based on the content of your speech what can what cannot be transferred in the air. The blacklisting also is a parallel for your vocal apparatus to be removed from you body, just because you do not comply with the social common sense, but the common sense of Internet communication is not a bottom-up social construction achieved based on collective social interaction. In contrary it is google that decides what the boundaries of common sense is, and the rest of us just try, empirically, figuring out what these boundaries are and to stay within them.

Consequently google is taking the edge from us and is pushing us into some form of uniformity and self-censorship for the sake of visibility. Google's claims about valuing democratic discourse is nothing but a bunch of hypocritical gibberish that were principles of the founders of Google at some point of time, before they went public and became the slaves of their share holders. Now the enforced Googlean common sense is designed to satisfy the interest of the company's share holders and we are lucky if some of the interests of the world population is not contradictory to that of Google share holders.

Google is what is wrong with America. Google is America

Google PageRank: Biased and fundamentally flawed?

From Danna Bogatin's blog

Is the infamous Google PageRank anti-democratic? 

Jakob Nielsen says it like it is, not how people want to believe it is. His “Search Engines as Leeches on the Web” post from earlier in the year is a must-read cutting-through-the-hype antidote to search engine (Google) worship:

Search engines extract too much of the Web's value, leaving too little for the websites that actually create the content. Liberation from search dependency is a strategic imperative for both websites and software vendors.

I worry that search engines are sucking out too much of the Web's value, acting as leeches on companies that create the very source materials the search engines index.

Read the original article from ZDNet Blogs

Youtube videos about Google Censorship

Google Propaganda	No Comments...
Do you trust Google? This might be a little too far fetched type of info and has some elements of usual conspiracy theory which in turn is not plausible, but is fun to watch and there is a pinch of truth in it. lets hope that it is not commissioned by Yahoo or MSN or ASK or others...

Blacklisted by Google - Put a Reinclusion Request

If you have been blacklisted by Google, you can actually go and place a reinclusoin request.

It says it might take several weeks, but mine came back rather quickly. The problem is that my new content has not been updated in their indexes, so all the searchability of my iranukemania is coming from my week-old content.

At least I have it back and can start building the audience base again. It does not mean that I'd be abandoning this website for I still think a corporation is not the proper authority to define the boundaries of freedom of speech...

Thanks to the owners owners of bioakinc.com for their useful postings about the reinclusion request.

Can Public Sphere be Privately Owned?

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Corporatocracy a Menace to Googlean Democracy

As much it is tempting to bash America and whatever it represents it still comes back to my face that their forefathers in the enlightenment movement produced an electoral republic known to this day as Jeffersonian democracy. Things did not quite move as the forefathers of America had envisioned and before anybody knew it America was trapped in the terror of less than enlightened Nixson, the Bushes, and root of all evil, Ronald Reagan, who were keener to serve corporate entities rather than the American public, and certainly did not feel any need for consistency between their words and they actions as they supported phenomena like the School of Americas and Middle-Eastern tyrannies while kept shouting about democracy and assassinating popular democratic South and Central American leaders like Allende.

Any form of mass media from the time of published books to newspapers, radio, and television was at first democratic and a hope for the "little man" to turn the monologue of the power structure into a dialogue. This was most apparent as the ham radios attracted thousands of citizens to form their own broadcasts, but the huge cost of ownership and turning the air waives into commodity made it impossible for the amateur broadcasters to reac h out to the world.

Internet in contrast was a new hope as it was two-ways and bottom-up by nature. No one owned it and no one regulated it but the users. A perfect model for direct democracy and the blogs were the rebirth of coffee houses in Habermas' public-sphere. Came out of this new school of communications the founder of Google with their ideals and idealism that is the defining character of the visionaries and revolutionaries, and then they have no choice to become the players of Corporatocracy.

First they turned the web-traffic into a commodity and we did not care for visibility and creativity were still connected. In fact their ownership of the digital packets of the internet were much different that the private ownership of the airwaves, for they could be used in the pursuit of independence by the individuals. Then they started letting people bid on their keywords, and even though the sponsored search results are presented with proper tags and separate location, it still can be said that one needs to know the rules of surfing before dipping into the world of Internet.



And now they have mysterious blacklists. A parallel to the time that time of the red-scare in which American Intellectuals and filmmakers were deprived of their basic rights for being communist sympathizers. Of course every American official denied it for it was unconstitutional, but the blacklisted intellectuals are still alive and indeed suffered to the edges of depression. Now google blacklists websites without even publishing the rules based on which it ranks the pages. No one knows when and what would cause an abrupt removal of a website from google indexes.

The Associated Press just recently reported that Google has being sued over such practice by another company. I found out about this when I was looking for an answer about why my blog suddenly disappeared from search engine results after being performing so well. I had started to receive hits from four three continent with people spending time in my blog and reading the content I had produced, and now it is all gone. you might find it interesting that the content of my website was about the necessity of a regime change in Iran due to the dangers the current government imposes on the country itself both from the national security perspective and social-economical. Let us not forget that this is the same Google that was not even needed to be pushed to self-censorship in China.

I demand for a release of key-point for what google looks in a site and what it blacklists as well as a center for responding to the blacklisted sites.