[Xmca-l] Fwd: [commfac] Fwd: Internet censorship meeting Thursday 7.30pm SSB 101

[mike cole]

I am forwarding a message that seems relevant to the discussion of Monica
and Fernando's paper.






Begin forwarded message:


Dear colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to a talk that might interest you.
In April of last year Google announced that it was taking measures
including changing its algorithm and employing ‘moderators’ in order to
prioritize ‘authoritative sources’ and de-rank ‘fake news.’ Immediately
after this, and subsequently, the World Socialist Web Site and other
leftwing and anti-war websites found very significant drops in the amount
of traffic coming their way via google searches. Others sites affected
include Counterpunch, Truth Dig, Truthout, Commondreams, among others. The
journalist Chris Hedges has found his writings increasingly difficult to
access via google. Since then, Facebook has employed thousands of censors
to alter news feeds, and Twitter and Youtube are also carrying out
censorship.
This, combined with the FCC’s ending of net neutrality represents a massive
threat to internet freedom.
This is going to be the topic for discussion at the meeting on Thursday.
Thursday March 15, 7.30pm, Social Science Building room 101.
Flyer attached.

As background, you might also be interested in this video of a discussion
between Chris Hedges and David North of wsws on internet censorship:
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/18/repo-j18.
html#pk_campaign=sidebar&pk_kwd=imagelink-webinar

Yours sincerely,
Charlie

p.s. please forward to anyone you think might be interested.
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