{"id":9391,"date":"2017-11-13T13:15:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=9391"},"modified":"2017-11-13T13:15:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:15:28","slug":"news-nanny-the-race-to-censor-internet-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/news-nanny-the-race-to-censor-internet-news\/","title":{"rendered":"News Nanny: The Race to Censor Internet News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If we don\u2019t fight now, conservatives will vanish from the internet.<\/strong> <\/em><\/h2>\n

FrontPage Mag<\/strong>
\nby Daniel Greenfield
\n11\/10\/2017<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n

How can you tell that internet censorship is really taking off? Easy. It\u2019s becoming a business model.<\/em><\/p>\n

Steven Brill is raising $6 million<\/a> to launch News Guard. This new service will rate news sites on their trustworthiness from green to red. Forget politically unbiased algorithms. The ratings will be<\/a> conducted by “qualified, accountable human beings” from teams of \u201c40 to 60 journalists.\u201d Once upon a time, journalism meant original writing. Now it means deciding which original writing to censor.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Can trust be monetized?” The Street\u2019s<\/a> article on News Guard asks. But it isn\u2019t really trust that\u2019s being monetized. It\u2019s censorship. It\u2019s doing the dirty work that Google and Facebook don\u2019t want to do.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Dems and their media allies have been pressuring Google and Facebook to do something about the \u201cfake news\u201d that they blame for Trump\u2019s win. The big sites outsourced the censorship to media fact checkers. The message was, \u201cDon\u2019t blame us, now you\u2019re in charge.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Facebook made a deal with ABC News and the AP, along with Politifact, FactCheck and Snopes, to outsource the censoring<\/a> for $100K. When two of these left-wing groups declare that an article is fake, Facebook marks it up and viewership drops by 80%.<\/em><\/p>\n

Facebook is reportedly considering adding the Weekly Standard to its panel of fact checkers. Even if that were to happen, it would be the difference between putting the New York Times without David Brooks or the Times with David Brooks in charge of deciding what you can read on Facebook. Adding a token conservative who is acceptable to the left doesn\u2019t change the inherent bias of the system.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not only does the roster of fact checkers lean to the left, but so do its notions of what\u2019s true and false. For example, Snopes and Politifact both insist that General Pershing\u2019s forces never buried the bodies of Muslim terrorists<\/a> with pigs. But General Pershing specifically<\/a> stated in his autobiography, “These Juramentado attacks were materially reduced in number by a practice that the Mohamedans held in abhorrence. The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave with a dead pig.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Both the New York Times<\/a> and the Scientific American<\/a> reported on it at the time. Despite that Snopes rated this widely accepted historical fact as \u201cFalse\u201d and Politifact marked it as \u201cPants on Fire\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Snopes also recently marked a story that Christ Church in Virginia is removing a George Washington plaque as false even though the church publicly announced that it was doing so.<\/em><\/p>\n

Politifact and Snopes are entitled to their incorrect opinions. The trouble is that they don\u2019t extend the same privilege to those they disagree with. And Google and Facebook promote fake fact checks while burying sites that discuss actual historical facts. The big internet companies don\u2019t want to get involved in all these arguments. But nor are they willing to let their users decide for themselves anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n

And so Net Nanny for news has become an actual business model. Instead of protecting children from pornography, News Nanny protects adults from news. And from views outside the left\u2019s bubble.<\/em><\/p>\n

By adopting the News Nanny model, Google and Facebook are treating their users like children.<\/em><\/p>\n

The News Guard model is in some ways even more insidious than biased fact checking because it sets up lists of approved and disapproved sites. Google is rolling out something similar with its \u201cknowledge panels\u201d for publishers. Search for the New York Times and the panels will tell you how many Pulitzers the paper has won. Search for Front Page Magazine and the panel note describes it as, \u201cPolitical alignment: Right-wing politics\u201d. No note listing a left-wing political alignment appears in the panel for the New York Times despite its recent laudatory series about the Soviet Union and Communism.<\/em><\/p>\n

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