Oddbean

Microsoft’s agenda is very clear, they want control and surveillance over the flow of information on the internet. Rather than allow websites to host the content themselves, Microsoft will subvert websites’ authority and post it on MSM .com. Then promote their bullshit proxy copy on their ad-revenue site via their Bing search. For example you search “Coindesk Bitcoin ETF” and it gives you “Coindesk via MSM”. This has quite a few effects: 1) Microsoft leaches ad revenue 2) It creates dependency and submission from the websites that they can’t cut off the traffic from Bing, because the other search engines such as Google and Brave are now ranking the MSM version, and not the original. 3) Microsoft sees all data, not just that you searched then went to the site, but what you clicked or did after. 4) Microsoft controls the content, by picking what to proxy and then promote as trending news. This is a form of thought control. Some will say this thought control is benign, but Microsoft’s left leaning censorship agenda is very clear with a partnership with NewsGuard. As ZeroHedge and the Daily Wire report, NewsGuard uses Microsoft’s Edge browser to display trust rankings like a nutrition label, and no surprise, it gives horrible ratings to conservative websites and flawless ranking to left leaning ones. One example of the danger of this type of censorship is that NewsGuard openly has financial ties to Pfizer partners and then downranks websites critical of the vaccine, calling them fake news. Microsoft will insert their left-leaning propaganda into the Windows start menu, innocently pretending it’s just trending news. Brainwashed Democrats don’t even realize that it’s normalizing an authoritarian society through unquestioned acceptance of government authority. In fact, Democrats are so shielded from criticism, that when they later read proven, factual, and academic criticism of the government for the first time, their knee-jerk reaction is that it’s “crazy conspiracy theory” because they’ve been so conditioned to never question or criticize top-down control. This assumption is reinforced literally every time they open a program on Windows. Sadly many other search engines just get results from Bing, and then mislead people into thinking they are getting privacy. For example people tolerate Duckduckgo and Qwant getting the bulk of their results from Bing, to try to avoid the data collection of going to Bing directly. What they don’t realize is that Qwant feeds user data into Microsoft’s ads. And even more chilling is Duckduckgo being physically hosted on Microsoft’s servers and serving them all the same MSM links with kick-back surveillance on them. Duckduck is masquerading as a privacy alternative, when they insert 3rd party JavaScript such as “improving.duckduckgo.com” onto the links themselves. This allows Duckduckgo to learn how long you stayed on even the non-MSM articles, or what your reaction to it is. They will likely claim this is supposedly to improve the search engine, but considering Duckduckgo is the default on Tor browser, training AI on my choices is hardly the choice for anonymous browsing. What can you do about it? Here’s our solutions: 1) Use a variety of search engines such as: a) MetaGer.org b) Mojeek.com c) Farside.link/SearXNG d) Simplified Privacy even hosts a SearXNG instance for you e) Brave Search, although it’s hosted on Amazon AWS. Although Brave does use Amazon, they have LESS propaganda. 2) Try and find the original links and avoid MSM. For example MetaGer will serve you the originals. You can also go to the company’s site and see the trending links. 3) If you’re going to use Duckduckgo for variety, then use it for mundane research topics or images, but avoid news. It’s news topics that get MSM propaganda links more often. 4) Use Linux and not Windows, it’s not as hard as people make it out to be. You don’t need to learn the command line. You can learn in under 2 weeks. Most apps are in a browser now so there’s not the same software compatibility issues there were 10 years ago. I believe in you. Now you have to believe in you.

It's the same thing as AMP. Not technically, but the goals and the user perspective are the same. They don't just want to be the site that delivers you what you're looking for, they want to be the circuit by which it is delivered to you, the environment in which you interact with it. It's dangerous. Friends don't let friends share AMP links, the same is going to apply to this Microsoft thing.

You clearly know what you're talking about when it comes to digital privacy and all of the points on that you make here are concerning, but maybe tone down your own political biases if you really are just trying to spread knowledge and help people? Your post reads like someone who is more pissed off at democrats existing than at his own gov violating his rights. a lot of the right-leaning sites are given lower scores because they literally peddle in lies, misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, as well as pushing "white is right" ideologies, stories, and authors. You got any links connecting pfizer to NewsGuard? I couldn't find a single thing from a reputable source, but I did find this NY Post article re-hosted on MSN (oh the irony): https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-s-state-dept-paid-newsguard-to-tar-organizations-like-ours/ar-AA1laOov *"Democrats have been so conditioned to never question or criticize top-down control"*? So you're saying it's the Republicans and conservatives who are woke and the Democrats have yet to wake up to the brainwashing of the state? And no democrats or leftists ever question or complain about the gov? Interesting. Have you seen any of the news from the last 3 months where every single week, all over the U.S., hundreds of thousands of people have been protesting and striking against the U.S. government's involvement in Gaza and declaring they'll never vote for Joe Biden again, while hundreds are being arrested, vilified, fired from jobs, and attacked in the streets, as well as the very widespread shadow-banning and censorship of pro-Palestinian content on every mainstream social media platform on the planet? If you haven't, perhaps it's because it's actually the speech and views of the left that are being suppressed by the conservative-controlled media. But yeah, even though Twitter is owned by the world's richest white supremacist and Meta is owned by the world's richest Zionist and Microsoft and Google are in bed with and design systems for every U.S.-allied military in the world, and even though every major news outlet in the U.S. has been parroting what the gov want them to for decades, and even though all those companies share the data they have on their users with law enforcement and the gov, and even though there are new laws being introduced right now in multiple states by republicans to limit free speech and the right to assembly specifically in response to the pro-Palestinian movement, and even though the police only attack left-wing protestors while protecting right-wing protestors, it's still the conservatives who are being silenced and suppressed. 🙄

Thanks for your time. You wrote many things, let’s try to unpack them. First, we are not in favor of Israel and the examples you gave. So we acknowledge there exist certain suppressed left voices as well for example on the issue you mentioned. However, most on the left are not consistent with the anti-war messages, and were requesting war in Ukraine with Russia. Regarding the pfizer, the zerohedge article is linked on our website where the original is. Regarding the Twitter white supremacist, obviously here I disagree Elon musk is a white supremacist for allowing content on the platform. The question is not “are people on the left ever having their ideas suppressed”. The question is “Is microsoft pushing a pro-authority agenda?” As you even admit in your last paragraph, the answer is yes.

Left vs Right was a seating plan for the French Assembly in the late 1700s. It was a successful seating plan, one that lowered the frequency of duels among Parliamentarians. Today, "Left" and "Right" are not just outdated and divisive, they actually mean different, often conflicting things to different people, and have been known to reverse their associations over time. I'm not saying don't use "Left" and "Right", but I am saying, if you do, stop and consider if a more specialised word would be better used in their place. "Statist" and "authoritarian" have clear and simple meanings, that are understood by all of us. The following exchange is a wonderful example of Nostriches who agree wholeheartedly, except on the connotations of "Left" and "Right": nostr:nevent1qqsv5j9vhltd7g88kwt8e6kewqp09qephsvxt8uc7fh8xyjd3ry3xgqppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzptpldtlpwkflvxqs2y76exs7238g0wwwjxe86dac3mzclw4fq992qvzqqqqqqykepvk0