Dear all,
Today the World Socialist
Web Site published an open
letter from WSWS
Chairperson David North to
Google demanding that it stop
censoring the Internet and stop
blacklisting the WSWS. The
letter states:
Google
is manipulating its Internet
searches to restrict public
awareness of and access to
socialist, anti-war and
left-wing websites. The World
Socialist Web Site
(www.wsws.org) has been
massively targeted and is
the most affected by your
censorship protocols.
Referrals to the WSWS from
Google have fallen by nearly
70 percent since April of
this year.
Censorship
on this scale is political
blacklisting. The obvious
intent of Google’s
censorship algorithm is to
block news that your company
does not want reported and
to suppress opinions with
which you do not agree.
Political blacklisting is
not a legitimate exercise of
whatever may be Google’s
prerogatives as a commercial
enterprise. It is a gross
abuse of monopolistic power.
What you are doing is an
attack on freedom of speech.
Read the full letter here.
Please share this
letter as widely as possible
on Facebook,
Twitter
and other social media.
We need your
support to get the word out and
expand the fight against
Internet censorship.
Sincerely,
The World Socialist Web
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