The information war continues raging….
On one battlefront, we have Elon Musk trying to push back against quasi-government control mechanisms that constrict information and the flow of discussion and ideas. On a lesser, albeit similar battlefield, we see this.
DuckDuckGo used to be the preferred search engine for those who wanted privacy on-line and unfiltered, i.e. organic, search engine responses. Unfortunately, CEO Gabriel Weinberg is now stating he will change the algorithm to remove independent information and media outlets and will replace them with only approved MSM results.
“Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine️,” Weinberg tweeted on Wednesday. “At DuckDuckGo, we’ve been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.”
Riddle me this my friends: The White House has officially admitted to creating misinformation, disinformation and malinformation as part of their strategic campaign against Russia in Ukraine. NBC news gleefully embraces the strategy {SEE HERE}. However, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has an official agency mission {SEE HERE} to “help the American people understand the scope and scale of Mal, Dis, and Misinformation activities,” and Google/DuckDuckGo/Big Tech have officially aligned with both U.S. government interests, promising to target, remove and penalize any entity engaged in Mal, Dis and Misinformation activities.
Think for yourself while it is still legal to do so.
The justification for the manipulation of information, the creation of dis/mal/and misinformation, and the propaganda campaign writ large, is based on a position that the U.S. is on the virtuous side of the conflict. Where virtue is determined by the officials creating the lies.
Yes, according to the official position of the Biden administration, lying for the public good is essentially now the admitted narrative.
Putting aside the creation of lies, to advance a strategic geopolitical objective, the bigger admission in the U.S. government statements is that much of the information coming to the American public – from them – is manufactured, false, fabricated and wrong.
Simultaneous to this admission of manufactured lies, the platforms of Big Tech and social media are saying they will target, remove and block any content that contradicts the official government position.
In the case of Google, the dominating search engine for information over the internet, they state it is an infraction against their policy to espouse a claim “that contradicts official government records.” Yet, the U.S. government is officially admitting the information they are creating for the government records, is self-admittedly false….. and now in comes DuckDuckGo with the assist.
Not wanting to overinflate the CTH position, but this now admitted reality is exactly why we have taken the following position.
…”There is no such thing as “disinformation” or “misinformation”. There is only information you accept and information you do not accept. You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.”…
There are only two elements within the public discussion of information, truth and not truth.
In an era filled with “fact-checkers” and institutional guardians at the gates of Big Tech, let me explain exactly why it is important not to accept the speech rules of the guards.
When you accept the terms “disinformation”, “misinformation” or the newest lingo, “malinformation,” you are beginning to categorize truth and lies in various shades. You are merging black and white, right and wrong, into various shades of grey.
When your mind works in the grey zone, you are, by direct and factual consequence, saying there is a problem. You are correct, however, this is where people may make a mistake. That problem is supposed to be there.
It is not a solution to the problem to try and remove the grey simply because it takes too much work to separate the white pixels from the black ones. You were born with a gift, the greatest gift a loving God could provide. You were born with a brain and set of natural instincts that are tools to do this pixel separation, use them.
If you define the grey work as a problem you cannot solve on your own, you open the door for others to solve that problem for you. You begin to abdicate the work, and that’s when trouble can enter. The sliding scale of Pinocchios is one of the most familiar yet goofy outcomes.
Put more clearly, when you accept the terminology “disinformation”, you accept a problem. The problem is then the tool by which authorities will step in to make judgements. Speech, in its most consequential form, is then qualified by others to whom you have sub-contracted your thinking.
When you willingly sub-contract information filters to others, you have lost connection with the raw information. CTH was founded upon the belief that truth has no agenda, nor does it care about you, your feelings, or your opinion of it. It just sits there, empirically existing as evidence of information in its most pure form.
The search for truth, in all things, is the mission objective of this assembly. Often, we don’t like the truth; often, the truth is bitter, cold, challenging and even painful to accept. However, the truth doesn’t care. Information in its most raw form is ambivalent to your opinion. If you struggle to accept these things, that’s when you need grey. The New York Times is not called the “grey lady” accidentally.
Personally, I am an absorber of information – perhaps on a scale that is unusual. But I do not discount information from any form until I can put context to it and see if the information makes sense given all the variables present. When something doesn’t feel right, it’s almost always because it isn’t right.
Often, I find myself struggling in the grey and complex. It is not unusual to spend days researching, digging, clarifying a situation, only to discover the path to finding the truth is in another direction entirely. Erasing everything and starting over is frustrating, but it is genuinely the only approach that works; and often finding truth is supposed to be difficult, that’s why it is rewarding.
In the digital information age, we are bombarded with information. It is easy to be overwhelmed and need to find something or someone who has better skills at separating the black grains from the white ones. All opinions in this quest should be considered; thus, it is important to allow the free flow of information.
I am not necessarily a speech absolutist. There is some language that needs to be constrained if we are to participate in a respectful society, with grandma’s rules and knowing the audience. The CTH has guidelines for comments for this exact reason. However, those constraints need to be based on a set of inherent values. When it comes to information it is important to draw a distinction from speech.
There needs to be an open venue for all information. Unfortunately, when we begin to apply labels or categorization to information, there’s an opportunity for information to be manipulated – even weaponized. Saul Alinsky spent decades pondering the best techniques to weaponize information and speech. Alinsky’s intentions, in the endeavor to change society by changing how language and information was used, were not good. He devoted his completed rulebook book to Lucifer.
Be careful about anyone saying we need to label or categorize information in order to control or remove speech from the discussion.
You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a God-given brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.
Unfortunately, the collectively aligned group of U.S. Govt, the Intelligence Community and now Big Tech, are saying they will put every roadblock they can muster in your way as you attempt to navigate through the misinformation they control.
With that in mind, I would finish with this. Be kind to those who cannot see through the misinformation, and do not invest too much time trying to convince them. Convincing is an endless quest, because it transfers the responsibility of discernment from them to you. They will become dependent on you and that my friends can be a heavy weight.
Remember, “Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.” ~ Max Ehrmann
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“Some people are just nuts”…
It has always been ‘Freedom, but with Responsibility’ ! It was never about limitless boundaries which results in anarchy. The Constitution was about 2 things: 1) acknowledging human nature and the innate desire to amass power individually or collectively, and 2) the definition of LIMITED federal responsibility in the new Republic, meaning local representation and accountability. The educated fathers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution knew that history would repeat itself once again….unless extraordinary efforts were made to clearly define the balances of power they were enabling.
Usurpers will lie, cheat and steal to justify their ends, always to the detriment of liberty and the rights of the individual. History, which is forgotten and/or not taught, will inevitably repeat itself, just in different guises. Will the United States of America, with STATES emphasized, be a casualty in the evolution of human kind? I think Musk, to his credit, gets the alternative and is taking action!
You can do any search on duckduckgo and then hit the “feedback” button on the lower right of the results to tell them what you think of this move. I told them I could get results filtered by totalitarians who thought they knew fake news better than me at lots of sites, so no longer needed them if this was the approach they were going to take.
we really pay a price for letting such likud mossad sayan as weinberg control so much of our country’s lives. israel would never let the reverse occur.
DuckDuckDead
Now I have to ditch Duck, Duck too?
I’m really sorry they want protect us from ourselves, that was how the rest got started down the slippery slope.
I’m simply not going to use companies that want to tell us what we should see, hear, read, and THINK.
“I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy . . . censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free.
Robert A. Heinlein
So true! There is only Truth and non Truth!
Duck Duck GONE
Brave search engine.
“Elon Musk considering bringing in partners on Twitter bid, sources say
https://nypost.com/2022/04/15/elon-musk-considers-bringing-in-partners-on-twitter-bid-sources/
Who decided which information is dis-information? In the past, I thought that was what DuckDuck Go was supposed to be about……dis-information. That is why I left after many many years. It should be the readers who make the decision someone has put out information that they don’t believe, and the readers only. If they decide it is a lie, they need to leave the information and not pass it on. Sort of like a child telling a lie…..each has to decide for themselves and it is NOT up to a neighbor to decide it is wrong or right for every individual. You believe what you want to believe, and I’m not gonna try to make you believe what I believe…..not my place, and not yours to change the way or things I feel.
Duck, duck go is now duck, duck gone.
I’m using search.brave.com or back to google.
By his name WEINBERG one might think his ancestors might have been oppressed and worse by dictators who want to control the population by propaganda and DISARMING them. so now this scrub follows the path of the power mad dictators??
It used to be DDG, now it’s Brave.com for freedom of browsing.
Why are so many Jewish people like Gabriel Weinberg such idiotic left leaning schmucks?
Why can’t someone, Elon,or other, create a “group” that like minded people like us can invest in to launch hostile takeovers of entities like twitter?
Trying to have a rational conversation with irrational people is akin to “Casting Pearls”
I’ve been using Neeva for a day now. It works rather well and doesn’t hide results from conservative sites. If you create an account you can have it stop opening new tabs when you click on a result. You can tell it to not use left wing news sources and it will filter them out of your results.
They do have an extension for Chrome/Chromium browsers that works well also.
“Convincing is an endless quest, because it transfers the responsibility of discernment from them to you. They will become dependent on you and that my friends can be a heavy weight.”
Speaking from experience, SD lol?
Excellent, Sundance. Thanks.
So, now I am disengaging from DDG totally. What is alternative folks?
“brave” or “presearch”; have been using Brave since the DDG signed on to the regime.
Me too.
The Brave browser has its own search engine which is excellent.
Has its own adblock also.
The Tor vpn is built-in as well.
Long time Brave browser user – since alpha. Long time DDG search user. Switched to Yandex. By far best results for search. I wanted to use Brave search but it gave results similar to Bing and others. Yandex brings up solid results for maga and anti globalist stuff. Covid truth science and dr’s etc. out of 11 tried none came close to Yandex.
Only thing is … it is russian owned!
I use it as well, but it has a tendency to revert to Russian language.
IMO DDG has ties to Amazon, and Amazon has ties to the CIA.
Can’t trust any of them.
http://techrights.org/2014/05/11/duckduckgo-no-no/
I switched to Neeva and they have a Chrome/Chromium browser extension. If you sign up for an account you can tell them you don’t want left wing news sources and you get really good search results.
I switched over to the Brave browser and search about a month ago. I really like it so far. I’m also switching from gmail to startmail. I got tired of Google putting conservative email notifications into SPAM – such as Dr. Malone. I’m trying to get away from Google as much as possible. Here’s the article I read that I found useful in my decision-making. https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/
I knew this about two months ago, so here’s two search engines that don’t track you AT ALL:
https://search.brave.com
Remember Brandon Eich? All here should. Look him up. He’s the guy at the helm of Brave. He has a browser as well.
And;
Ithttps://presearch.org
I use Brave but the second one is OK.
Also, get a ProtonMail account for email private enough that James O’Keef (sorry, I can’t spell to save my life…) has used for years.
How does censorship help the Ukrainans in the war? It does not.
The war isn’t about Ukraine. Nobody cares about them. The war is about America.
Censorship helps Ukraine immensely in the propaganda war. Twitter and YouTube, for example, censor anything pro-Russian. Some videos slip through, but for the most part, it’s all pro-Ukraine. Look at all those UKR flags on twitter posts.
This is one area that Russia failed to get ahead of when the war began. But on the battlefield, they are winning.
They don’t CARE if you’re fed lies, just as long as they’re the RIGHT lies.
“Others… may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.” –Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural Address, 1801
-21 Alternative Search Engines to Use in 2022
https://kinsta.com/blog/alternative-search-engines/
I down graded the duck to minus zero for their disinformation.
Switched to BRAVE.
So far so good.
Ad blocking is exceptionally good.
Agree, and when watching YouTube videos, the ads and breaks are gone, with seamless playback.
My only concern is that Brave uses the Chrome extensions, which is Google code.
“Is the Brave Browser safe?
Brave is one of the safest browsers on the market today. It blocks privacy-invasive ads & trackers. It blocks third-party data storage. It protects from browser fingerprinting. It upgrades every webpage possible to secure https connections. And it does all this by default.It’s also built off the open-source Chromium web core, which powers browsers used by billions of people worldwide. This source code is arguably vetted by more security researchers than any other browser. In short, not only is Brave safe to use, it’s much safer than almost any other browser.”
https://brave.com/
So why did Weinbug feel it was necessary to show his ass and tell everyone that he intends to use his trusted web service to lie to everyone? He could have just quietly done it, and most people wouldn’t have been the wiser, but to just blab it out there as if it was something virtuous? Weinbug, you dope.
In my opinion, he wanted to let the Oligarchs he sold out to know DDG is onboard with MSM/Globalists/WEF/NWO.
Yes I do believe that people who signal their virtue are in fact signalling globalist leaders that they are on the train.
The traitors like to let other traitors know they are on the correct side. The left can’t help themselves they need to blab all and that is to our advantage in the long run. Look at all the sicko teachers bragging about showing our kids porn. Pandora’s box has been opened wide and all the evil is now pouring out for all to see.
Amongst the not very clued-in, they’ve been seen as the “Alt Right” search engine for a while now. He likely needs to pay Tribe dues.
Lefty virtue signaling trumps everything.
Weinberg
Find the money follow the money.
Already un installed.
I think most people here have accepted the fact that everything the 24/7 gov/tech media complex spews from their sewer pipe is 100% pure bullshit. Any government that has to lie, censor, and intimidate is a failed government. These monsters want to chem spray us, pump us with fluoride, and inject and transhumanize us until we are either dead or brain dead. FJB.
I heard Proton has a good search engine. We’ll see how long they last.
Best ad blocker but only works on Apple’s iOS: whatever search engine or site, recommend free, clean ad blocker – Wipr. Available on Apple’s App store. Wipr. No e. Blocked before download. Except YouTubes always annoying documentary movie long ad’s I mute or click away. Downloads are faster because less graphic content is being downloaded. Thank you Jesus.
Thank you and GOD Bless!
DuckDuckNoGo
As its is always with the M.S. Media they hide the truth from us all and only allow the stuff aprooved of by the Grand Poo Head