Google monitors and censors Gmail and Googlegroup emails for political content it dislikes
Reason 2,458,210,539 to stop using Google: We now have solid evidence that Google monitors and censors emails sent out using either Gmail or to Googlegroup listservs, because it censored emails discussing Robert F. Kennedy’s independent candidacy for the presidency.
The story at the link describes how the author, Lori Wentz of the Brownstone Institute, on June 27, 2024 emailed to a Googlegroups listserv a link to an X livestream where Kennedy would give his own answers to the questions in the live debate between Trump and Biden on June 28, 2024. In doing so the author also included some of her own thoughts, which resulted in an exchange on the political listserv about the subject. She subsequently got the following notice from Googlegroups:
“We’re letting you know that we’ve permanently removed [your] content…An external report flagged the content for illegal or policy violations. As a result, our legal content and policy standards team removed the content for the following reason: unwanted content.”
Wentz had no way of finding out what that “unwanted content” was, as Googlegroups did not provide this essential information, instead informing her that she would simply have “to pursue your claims in court.”
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Further research found that Google was routinely labeling gmail emails that mentioned Kennedy’s live stream during the debate as “dangerous” and warning anyone receiving them not to click on the link to the livestream. The screen capture to the right is an example. The original complete email is to the left, with the red warning banner attached to it by Google on the right. Apparently, listening to Kennedy’s responses on X triggered Google censors. Having freedom of speech in America is verboten, and must be banned!
What this story tells us is that if you have a gmail account, or send any emails to a Googlegroups listserv, your email is being read and monitored by Google, which has decided it has the right to read your private emails and then block and censor what you write.
Are you outraged? If you still use Google as your default search engine your outrage is worthless and you are lying to yourself. It takes ten seconds to make another search engine your default, and if you still don’t do it it is clear you have no problem with this unwarranted and immoral invasion by Google of your privacy and free speech rights.
As for using gmail, I understand it is more work to find another web-based email provider and to inform your contacts of the change, but it is also not that hard. For the sake of your privacy and first amendment rights, that extra work is really quite trivial, especially when compared with the number of people who were gladly willing to sacrifice their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for those rights and that freedom.
Have fun putting on those chains when these thugs come next to arrest you for something you wrote.
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