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Statistics professor Salil Mehta, adjunct professor at Columbia and Georgetown who teaches probability and data science and whose work has appeared on this website on numerous prior occasions, was banned by Google on Friday.
What did Salil do to provoke Google? It is not entirely clear, however what is clear is that his repeated attempts at restoring his email, blog and other Google-linked accounts have so far been rejected with a blanket and uniform statement from the search giant.
Here is what happened, in Salil Mehta’s own words.
Don’t do a googol of evil
Freedom is not free unless corporations who exert a large influence in our lives believe in our well-being. I am a statistics professor and understand that there needs to be reasonable standards to control a large social network and make sure everyone is able to enjoy it freely. Invariably people disagree (we all see this), but some principles, such as simply showing probability and statistics with the sole hope of educating others, should be acceptable and in the middle of the distribution. I am for a higher standard, and a higher purpose. There is great care that I have taken to make sure that people treat one other well, admit faults, and present math and probability education to a wide audience.
On Friday afternoon East Coast Time by surprise, I was completely shut down in all my Google accounts (all of my gmail accounts, blog, all of my university pages that were on google sites, etc.) for no reason and no warning. A number of us were stunned and unsure, but clearly we know at this point it wasn’t an accident. Here are some examples commented from best-selling author Nassim Taleb, and they have been retweeted by government officials, and the NYT and WSJ journalists.
Even his email was disabled by Google. https://t.co/Zj9g9MpKzr
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 19, 2017
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Why One CEO Decided To Kick Nazis Off The Internet (HBO)
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“I’m VERY Worried” Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson Discuss Google, YouTube Suspension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQmjuptpDsA
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Google is making the rope that can be used to hang it.
Expect a demand for public oversight if this kind of obvious and destructive mischief continues.
But given that our government is already owned by the corporations, will anything actually happen?
Will the libertarian Paul Ryan come to the rescue of free speech?
Do not hold your breath.
Good video. Very gratifying to see journalists asking tough questions.
Race Differences in Intelligence
(New Century Foundation)
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– https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7458465?visit_id=0-636392902121346994-4010158402&p=youtube_vov&hl=en&rd=1
Do Google’s Open Source products carry a special license bearing the adminition “May not be used by Nazis?”
So why hasn’t google, etc. done anything about Unz.com, or any of their writers?
Maybe the fact of Ron Unz being jewish means some protection, who knows. Goolag is scared to silence jews?
What looks like a causative factor appears a few paragraphs later:
Germar Rudolf has been imprisoned, fined, forced into tenuous exile in USA for publishing his research on chemical weapons use in WWII.
In one of his videos, Rudolf discussed a situation he thinks needs to be explored vigorously; namely, Who defends free speech when it is the government that suppresses free speech?
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(last 5 minutes)
In Rudolf’s case, it was government that enforced suppression of free speech and government that enforced prosecution of his free speech .
Should DailyStormer sue Prince and CloudFare, what are the chances that US government would give DailyStormer a fair hearing?
(btw, is Prince related to Blackwater Prince?)
Which video doesn’t?
“The wrongs here are not being done by me” said several million true believers in their turn.
My guess is that the reason Unz.com AND all of its writers have been untouched is they are considered to be crazy enough as to be beneficial to the left (the-end-of-the world-is nigh)
See also Zero Hedge.
Why did they do that?
To show that they could do it.
(Darkness at noon)
This is an element quintessential to power. It needs to be shown in its most indiscriminate manner, on occasions. Just as it needs to be withheld from notice most of the time.
Discretion as a rule, showing-off as a necessary exception.
There was an entire South Park episode about this. It’s probably in the terms and conditions.
“you agree to allow Apple to sew your mouth to the butthole of another iTunes user”
Good post.