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”…
along with Sundance Truth has no agenda. Coming close to the truth as you can with out getting there is close. but it’s not the truth.
Tow weeks to flatten the curve, masks work, Hydroxychloroquine kills…..the gov decides what lies are preferred
Your analogy doesn’t even make any sense.
MUMBO JUMBO claiming to be news, straight from MSNBC.
Posting Proof…
“CTH is blocking people who disagree with Russia’s line”
… to validate your position would be appreciated.
Otherwise, I will be forced to label your assertion as..
Bravo Sierra
Ok Zelenskyy.
Huh? LOL
I dumped DuckDuckGo about a month ago when I heard rumblings about result curation. I’m currently using Qwant, which seens OK. Brave also has a search engine (search.brave.com) as does Yandex (yandex.com). Nothing makes my blood boil like “overlords” presuming to think on our behalf.
I have been using Swiss Cow for a month and it blocks some off-color sites.
I switched to swisscows when DDG went woke and so far I happy with it.
Seems to be pretty system lightweight
I just switched to swisscows and like it but I noticed if you watch a youtube video on there it doesn’t show the comments people make. Is there a way to get those do you know? I like to read what people have added to the recipes.
Yes, it is very interesting to read comments and get a better feel for how others are thinking.
Snellville Bob: Swiss Cows claims on its own website to be “family friendly.” This means they censor.
I have been using Brave. Dumped Duck Duck Go six weeks ago.
I like Brave very much.
I have had good results searching for images, which I do to add to emails. Brave is also good for video and shopping searches.
Brave’s best feature is its inclusion of conservative and alternate websites in my searches for news stories.
I have been using Brave for close to a year and have yet to see much inclusion of conservative sites in my searches other than on occasion, and even then, not on the initial page. I have never seen a link to Gateway Pundit, Conservative Treehouse, Breitbart, InfoWars, ever. It has made me rethink the Brave search engine although I continue to use it anyway. I am also trying out StartPage.
Just did a search of conservative treehouse on different browsers/search engines. Here’s Chrome:
https://www.google.com/search?q=conservative+treehouse+website&oq=conservative+treehouse+website&aqs=chrome..69i57.6255j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Here’s Neeva.com on Brave
https://neeva.com/search?q=conservative%20treehouse%20website&c=All&src=suggestselect&extversion=1.2.79
Here’s StartPage on Dissenter:
https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=conservative+treehouse+website&cat=web&pl=ext-chrome&language=english&extVersion=1.1.2
I have switched Dissenter’s search engine to Neeva, for now.
You have to wonder how many of those are actually owned by the CIA and our front companies.
I dumped DuckDuckGo about the same time as you, and have been using search.brave.com, which seems ok so far.
The Startpage search engine is pretty good.
Agreed. I used it for years and frequently worry that maybe it isn’t what I expect it to be. However, haven’t heard anything detrimental about it. Cheers.
Dogpile, SwissCows, Webcrawler and Metacrawler are also good. So is Brave.
They aggregate the results from many search engines, eliminate duplicates, strip off trackers, and present a combined list of results.
At least you get many independent results. They aren’t “tailored” by a single search engine. Statistically more honest.
I use brave because you at least get something for using there browser
StartPage pays Google to use its search engine.
https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/158/22/what-is-the-relationship-between-startpagecom-and-google
So exactly why did the “US of CB” (United States of Central Bank) really go to WAR and kill Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi…….and now want to go to WAR and kill Vladimir Putin……?????
Could it be that all three (3) were working to rid the World of the petrodollar, the Khazarian Mafia, and the Central Bankers…..?????
You’ll be surprised with your research….!!!!
I’m using Brave search which has potential. It’s still in beta and has a ways to go. I’m also using Swisscows and Onesearch.
Sundance is right there is only information, let me sift thru it is part of the measuring scale.
And, I challenge you to do this. Find your favorite persona on twitter that also does Telegram and look at the raving bots making comments on twitter. Then, go to that same persona on Telegram and look at the likes, dislikes, etc.
Notice the difference?
You’ll be able to see exactly to what extent the bots are working twitter (et al.).
The reason is that you have to provide real information in order to set up Telegram protocols on once set of personal com devices. The bots/NGOs won’t provide that or they can’t.
I won’t do Telegram because I don’t do “apps” and is essentially spyware like most “apps”.
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/telegram.html
Duck Duck Go can go______
Ha, F,F Go
The Bible waxes poetically about immersing yourself in The Word. It says to devour and eat the word. Studying it, memorizing it, meditating over it, praying constantly day and night. Primarily testing ALL THINGS.
You are what you eat. If you listen to the world and consume popular media and worldly content you begin to become corrupted. Look at how our culture has eroded over the last 50+ years and how it is accelerating. Your fathers and grandfathers might have believed the world was going to hell in a hand basket but every generation it becomes so much worse.
Good analogy, the Bible. If one eats high-carb, high-sugar factory foods, one risks becoming obese and adds risks of diabetes and high blood pressure to the mix. If one sets convenience at the top of the food pyramid, one’s blood and internal organs will soon be laden with nanoparticles of who knows what unnatural junk. If one gathers info from the MSM and wades in pop culture, one risks drowning in ignorant sinfulness.
How did Sgt. Joe Friday put it?
“Just the facts, ma’am.”
Fact is the province of science. Truth is the province of philosophy. Indiana Jones was quite right on this point. So, stay as far away from truth when talking to others as you can get– and regard any one who offers you “the truth” as a snake oil salesman/woman/other.
Appropriate on Good Friday to recall Pilate’s question to Jesus: “What is truth?”
DuckDuckGONE for me & on all devices where I could make changes – this happened some time ago when I first heard what DDG was up to.
Maybe Mr. Nunez and PDJT can see their way to building a search engine to go with Truth Social? Also,fwiw below is some advice for Truth Social, that i thought sounded important, from a computer nerd on another site:
—-“Lastly…a few suggestions for Nunes
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They are having mucho trouble with scaling, I believe. I also heard their two top developers (or whatever you call them) resigned. This was talked about by Adam Curry on No Agenda. So, don’t hold your breath.
Still waiting for the desktop version. 🙁
I am waiting for the desktop version , I don;t like the tiny phone
screen..
Love that quote by Max Erhmann.
Ok.
Only people who think they are better than others believe that they are more qualified to decide what is information and what is “disinformation’.
So, either Gabriel believes that he is better than others, or this is simply a pretext to consolidate power, or both.
You doth protest too much.
And you haven’t provided proof….
Your turn
The old you haven’t done this or that tactic after tossing out a whole bunch of accusations.
Provide me direct links to support all of your accusations, all of them, and back up your accusations with links your truth too. I’ll wait.
Well, I gave you opportunity. You have shown you really are not up to backing yourself up.
I find it entertaining you pick an article about Duck Duck Go to let yourself come unglued.
And I’ve entertained your trolling all I care to do.
If Russia had “invaded” Ukraine the “war” would have been over a long time ago.
There was no massive invasion.
“…objectively false claims regularly made on this site?”
Provide proof…
Dare ya…
next you are going to tell me Hunter’s laptop is Russian disinformation too
We don’t generally have any interest in cut & paste Fake News war stories from CNN etc. posted here. There are plenty of other places for that; like the entire crooked mainstream news and virtually all of social media. That’s why you get to see the other side of the conflict in Ukraine. Bye, bye.
IMO, it is cut and paste for sure, just a list of talking points disseminated to those who want to cause trouble.
This individual been saving his for a while to unload in a fit of angst.
Twitter chatter. Mr. Zelenskyy.
LOL
CNN IS NOT FAKE NEWS.
LOL
A ‘like’ for the Trump bite of the ‘Apple logo.
Yup, left google for DuckDuck go for privacy issues and tracking. Curated results are not the free flow of information as intended.
I’m giving Neeva a whirl to see how it is.
Looks like you have gotten a lot of government and mainstream information tucked in there. Thanks for your opinion.
This isn’t any proof of anything, but I just searched with “January 6” in DDG and all that came up was a string of results from Democrat propaganda sites. If I search “January 6 Fox” only then do I see Fox reporting, some of it quite recent (e.g., 37 minutes old). I’m done with DDG.
what is the purpose of Duckduckgo then? Google is a better user experience. If both promote CIA/DOD lies and propaganda then might as well use Google.
So you seem to spend a great amount of time here, why if this is how you see it? I must have missed how it is dis-information no it’s just info you decide.
And while I totally disagree with your opinion and conjecture along with the baiting intent of your post, I wonder if you are capable of recognizing you have just proven Sundance’s point of viewing and discerning all facts for yourself instead of letting someone or some authority do it for you?
Well that did not take long. Right after the Elon Musk reveal. And I – till Sundance’s awesome write- thought DDGo was one of the “good guys “. Guess not!! My question who got to this CEO ? And why now? But I now know the answer, sadly. Seems like the walls are closing in on good guys. But I have faith God is in charge. Keep praying for our country fellow Treepers.
I have been enjoying since the first announcement by DuckDuckGo – not having anything to do with DuckDuckGo. And it feels great!
Yandex.com
Tell us more.
There is nothing mysterious about the behavior of the Dems, the GOP, and the oligarchs and media (the media, top to bottom too).
No overwhelming loss this Nov for the Dems will change any of their behavior.
Only if the people calling the shots fear the loss of a majority of their wealth or if they fear for their persons will their behavior change.
Who are you?
Weinberg
“You haven’t even taken responsibility for spending weeks falsely claiming that Russia would never attack Ukraine.. ”
Please, provide dated links for others to VALIDATE your accusation…
TYIA
As much as thadec wants to cause trouble, Sundance did address getting Russia/Ukraine wrong. Someone should tell thadec to use the search feature here on the site.
thadec ached for an opportunity to teach but fell woefully short.
I tried duckgogo on two different machines side by side on the same search and got different results for the same request.
Twitter chatter. Mr. Zelenskyy.
CTH rates its own perception management specialists, courtesy of both our involuntary taxes and Globalist, Incorporated’s fiat deficit spending. Which contractor do you work for?
….“After Russia started shelling hospitals, apartment buildings and schools with no strategic …”
*word on the street is that Ukraine placed military munitions into hospitals, apt buildings, etc..
…”parroting Russian false claims that they had no intention of attacking Ukraine.”-
*some think that the DC Junta baited Putin into invading, by telling Putin that Ukraine would soon be part of NATO…
…”CTH repeats the Russian claim “we were never after Kiev or wanted regime change” when Putin threatened to destroy Ukraine as a nation if they didn’t surrender on March 5 and Russia was speaking of how Zelensky was going to be captured..”
*did i miss the news that Putin has taken Kiev, destroyed Ukraine as a nation, or captured Zelensky?
I wonder how much he and Duck Duck Go got paid? Already made the change weeks ago when the story started coming out.
Kind of fits the hypothesis that Twitter is not profitable and is funded by the US government and perhaps other governments as well.
Thanks Sundance!
Any CEO can be gotten to when our law enforcement agencies, FBI, DOJ etc as well as the IRS and SEC are all compromised and obedient to the global cabal.
Do what the Party says or we will crush you.
I could never get behind the name ‘Duck Duck Go’. (It’s been all down hill with names since Yahoo!)
I stopped using it last year when an article revealed their policies and also stopped Firefox for same reason. Now use Brave browser with Brave search which supposedly is uncensored, but since basically most of the internet is controlled content anyway not sure how much difference it makes. I find sites I like – like this one – and keep bookmarks and rarely depend on search engines for news or political coverage unless am looking up a particular event or speech.
“I could never get behind the name ‘Duck Duck Go’”.
BaronAsh, your comment just brought to mind the game, and the part DDG leaves out of its name is what they now do to users: Goose!
DuckduckGOOSE.com, because they now goose you with censorship and mind control.
Their goose is cooked!
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These are Our Rouge Employees … Not Our Government, get Very Clear on this. It is a most important difference and should continually pointed out at every possible opportunity until it Finally Sinks Into the Public’s Heads Firmly.
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Start researching and educating yourself at http://www.annavonreitz.com/index.html
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As long as the masses continue to demonstrate inability and lack of knowledge in order to identify the difference between Our Only Lawful Government and Our Rouge Contracted EMPLOYEES they will continue to destroy our nation while we stand by like utter dimwits and allow them to it so.
If You Are New to this Information Read You Know Something is Wrong When…..: An American Affidavit of Probable Cause
“America is still free…”
HA!!🤣🤣
And CTH continues to allow you to ramble on….
You’re out your league sunshine….
🤔
“America is still free…”
HA!!😂
I stopped using duckduckgo two months ago
“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.”
Amen Brother Sundance, that’s the honest truth.
Help me out. When/where did CTH claim that the Russia will never invade Ukraine? I think the discussion has been “when” after Biden was elected. It is open discussion here. Not sure what the point is here?
Even if Sundance said that, I think most people here have their own opinions and usually express it with facts to back them up. Got any?
Why hang around if you can’t handle diverse discussion? Something you don’t get else where. Hmm, are you trolling? It is an honest question.
—“Looks like to me that you are upset that GoDuckGo is preventing you and outlets like yours from promulgating information that is objectively false.”—-
*You and GoDuckGo are conflating YOUR OPINION with OBJECTIVE TRUTH
He became big enough by telling us that DuckDuckGo wasn’t Google. Now the IC got to him too…
Could you make your posts a little shorter? Too windy and nonsensical.
Ive found adding “IMO” to posts clears things up nicely….
Beautiful Post SD!!
“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.”