"Big Mistake!"

One of the very best homes for center-right writers is the American Spectator. The Daily Caller reports that Google has been blacklisting them! Jeffrey Lord reports in the Spectator,

Mr. Pichai looked a congressional committee in the eye and insisted that “we don’t manually intervene on any particular search result” — while the Daily Caller revelations revealed that “Google does manipulate its search results manually, contrary to the company’s official denials, documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller indicate.”

There is a name for doing that. It’s called lying to Congress. A federal crime with jail time attached.

Note that this revelation comes only days after a column was posted in this very space at The American Spectator titled:

Google Bigots and the High-Tech Lynching of Kay James

In which was discussed the recent hiring of Heritage Foundation president Kay James for a Google advisory board on artificial intelligence — only to be fired after some 2,000-plus Googlers launched on the conservative Ms. James for, among other things, being a “white supremacist” — laughably unaware that Kay James is, in fact, an African-American. She was also accused of not seeing gays “as human.” In fact, Kay James has a beloved son who is openly gay, and as reported here in the Washington Times is “adored” by her son’s LGBTQ community.

What was on display at Google in the James affair was hardcore, blatant racism. James had the audacity to think for herself — and the masters and mistresses of the Liberal Plantation that is Google unleashed the high-tech company’s politically correct dogs to chase down a black woman who does not think as they demand — and eliminate her presence.

This is no longer some minor bug in the tech world.

The fact of the matter is that the American Left is waging a full scale war against fellow Americans who have the audacity to disagree with Left Wing orthodoxy. They are not interested in debate, discussion, ideas, free speech, or a free press. They are the enforcers of their own iron-fisted, totalitarian, Mao-style cultural revolution. The targets can be Fox News or individual Fox hosts with names like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham. It can be conservative speakers invited to college campuses — with the mere appearance of conservative Ben Shapiro requiring the University of California at Berkeley forced to lay out $600,000 to protect the speaker. It can be a Media Matters campaign to remove Rush Limbaugh from the air. Or, yes, me.

On and on and on this kind of thing goes. This is no longer a debate about ideas in the tradition of America. It is a war of personal destruction.

This time around, the target is The American Spectator. This time around the iron fist belongs to Google.

The question has reached the point that conservatives need to have a serious conversation among themselves. Is it time for government regulation of these tech giants? Or is it — my preference — time for free-market competition that provides serious and successful competition to these companies?

But whatever else is clear at this moment, it is that The American Spectator has been blacklisted by Google in an attempt to silence it.

And as should be abundantly clear to anyone with knowledge of the history of The American Spectator, its founder Bob Tyrrell, and its staff of editors and writers?

Big mistake.

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