Google Blocks MassResistance
I’ve been called nigger dozens of times on YouTube, and I’m at peace with that.
Google blocks MassResistance website for several days. (Same weekend Google marches in Chicago gay pride parade). Could this happen to others?
Google is a private corporation, the First Amendment and free speech decorum doesn’t apply, but one would think they’d be a little more discreet in demonstrating their preferences.
It was a chilling example of raw power. And it’s an example of what can happen to you when you’re on the cutting edge of exposing the dark side of a powerful movement.
Between this past Friday and Wednesday, people who attempted to go to the MassResistance website were met instead with a big warning screen telling people that “this site contains malware” or that was “forbidden” for them to go to MassResistance. And anyone who used Google to search for a MassResistance page was told that “this site may harm your computer.”
We’ve never seen this happen to any other site, anywhere. (And surely, there must be millions of sites with some “malware” in them.)
Culmination of recent attacks on MassResistance site
Two weeks ago, after we posted the report on the state-supported “Transgender Prom” for kids in Boston City Hall, hackers broke into the MassResistance website and put malware on it. Apparently there was also a “denial of service” attack. We worked with our hosting company to clean it up.Then last week, after we posted the Fistgate Tapes and Scott Lively’s book on fighting back against the homosexual agenda, hackers attacked again. More malware was put on.
Mysterious involvement of Google
Mysteriously, Google quickly found out about this second malware attack and took this unusual action. On Friday afternoon we received an email from Google regarding (1) our home page and (2) our report with videos of homosexual activists in elementary schools:“We recently discovered that some of your pages can cause users to be infected with malicious software. We have begun showing a warning page to users who visit these pages by clicking a search result on Google.com.”
Google did more than that. Somehow, users (including us!) who simply typed “www.MassResistance.org” into their browsers — without interacting with Google at all — also got a warning page instead of the MassResistance website!
We immediately contacted our hosting company. They found the malware and cleaned it up. We informed Google, and got a message back that they would look into it, and we should “check back later.” Days went by. We kept contacting Google. After we phoned their Cambridge office on Monday night they finally notified us they’ve determined that our site was now “clean” and they would remove the block. By Wednesday it was completely gone from both direct access wornings Google’s web search results. But in the meantime, thousands of people who had gone to our website were turned away by Google.
During that time we got emails and phone calls from around the country from distraught people asking what was going on, why we were being blocked, etc.
As we said, we’ve never seen anything like this done to any other website. No one we talked to had ever seen anything like this before, either.
(We spent the entire day Monday dealing with this and installing extra protection against more hacks. Luckily, we’re back up at full strength now!)
It’s an interesting coincidence that during the weekend Google – a very public supporter of the homosexual movement – marched in the “Gay Parade” in Chicago.
The fact that one company has such enormous power to do this to a group they clearly disagree with politically should frighten people. If they can do this to us, they can do it to anyone. But we’ve also learned that you can’t back down.
MassResistance continues to not back down, and when Google comes after you, an impact is being made.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Why are the same people who pretend to be liberal and open-minded always the most obvious fascists and bigots?
July 1st, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Bob Parks: “Google is a private corporation, the First Amendment and free speech decorum doesn’t apply, …”
In a sane world. But we all know what happens when a private entity engages in “speech” (I mean “speech” in the expansive “liberal” usage of the word) of which “liberals” really, really, really disapprove.
For instance, say that there is a little Mom-and-Pop diner in my neighborhood. And suppose that Mom and Pop are just absolute, unreconstructed racial bigots. And suppose Mom and Pop put a sign in their window saying, “No [bad-word] Allowed!”
Now, personally, I would like Mom and Pop to do this openly, so that I can know to take my business elsewhere.
But, what will happen should Mom and Pop do this? Will the “liberals” and the government *allow* this as free speech? Will they rightly conclude that, as Mom and Pop are a private entity, they are violating no one’s rights?
Of course not, we all know this; we all know how this plays out.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:50 pm
“I’ve been called “n” dozens of times on YouTube, and I’m at peace with that.”
that’s one of the things I respect about you, Bob – you’re able to deal with the heat and (at least from my standpoint) it doesn’t affect you. I hope to gain that resistance quality someday.
anyway, I think it’s just downright weird there would be a google gay parade..yeesh..why does it have to be google anyway? did it HAVE to be google?
also, good to know groups like MassResistance exist and were able to push back enough to have their website up & running. fantastic!
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Pamela Geller at AtlasShrugs got sandboxed by Google a couple of months ago for “hate speech”. Yes, Google is a private company and can have their own viewpoints, and are free to express them. However, it seems that there comes a point, given their position on the internet, that they should be held accountable to this sort of behavior.
I think MassResistance should sue them. It was one thing for Google to put the message in the search results, those results are their product, produced by a private company as you said, Bob. But for them to have somehow blocked direct access via either DNS resolution, or redirects, or whatever mechanism they used, that is WAAAY beyond their scope of responsibility. This should be prosecuted in the exact same way as someone who was found to have performed a DOS attack on a corporate or government website. JMO
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:22 pm
While Google is a private entity, there is a large element of moral fraud involved.
Google *claims* to be neutral and non-partisan (no matter what the partisanship involves). Google *claims* to be which anyone may use.
And then Google censers the content. And let’s not even get into their cooperative venture with the thugs who rule China.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
oops … “Google *claims* to be [a neutral tool] which anyone may use.”
July 4th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
The scary thing is that Google is partnering with other entities. I’m switching browsers, I don’t know, Opera? some Unix thing maybe? I’m sick of Microsoft, Google, and so on.
For email, try
http://www.privacyharbor.com
it costs but it is not open for anyone to review.
Found it on Conservative Fun House a few months ago.