Has Google unleashed their AI on me?

I am inclined to think they have. For years they never censored any of my politically correct posts on any of my blogs but in the last 6 months they have deleted quite few. For instance, my post of 10th on “Dissecting Leftism” has been deleted.

That is not a big problem for any regular readers. Any reader of any of my blogs can read my deleted posts on either of my backup sites, so I am not too bothered by the deletions. See:

http://jonjayray.com/ or http://johnjayray.com/

I am more bothered to think that I have been censored by a machine rather than by an intelligent human being. A human being can potentially feel guilt, embarrassment, regret etc., but a machine can not.

What is really bothersome to me is a less direct way that they censor me: “search blocking”. I think quite a few people over the years have come to my writings via a search. They do a search on some particular topic and come to my comments on that topic. That will now not happen any more. Any result to a search that comes up with a reference to (say) “Dissecting Leftism” will now not be displayed.

A search for “Dissecting Leftism” will bring up the front page of that blog but a search for any content within that blog will yield nothing. It will yield posts by others under the same heading but not my posts.

And “Greenie Watch” is even more heavily blocked. A search for that name will not even bring up the front page. The blog effectively does not exist for Google. They really loathe it.

Where that matters is when I point out the big holes in some piece of research. For instance I commented on a claim that has has had a fair bit of publicity lately:

“An estimated 135 million premature deaths linked to fine particulate matter pollution between 1980 and 2020″

I put up today on “Greenie Watch” a comment showing that the research underlying that claim is pure rubbish from an academic viewpoint. I am a retired academic so I read and understand the detailed statistics in an academic journal aticle. And that is where the holes show.

But because anyone curious about that claim will NOT be directed to my comments by Google, they may never find out what rubbish that claim is. Only people who regularly read my blogs will know how unfounded the claim is.

So it is an important act of censorship. The only way my critical comments will become widely known is if readers of my blog publicize them in some way. I hope that happens.

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My other blogs. Main ones below:

http://edwatch.blogspot.com (EDUCATION WATCH)

http://antigreen.blogspot.com (GREENIE WATCH)

http://pcwatch.blogspot.com (POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH)

http://australian-politics.blogspot.com/ (AUSTRALIAN POLITICS)

http://dissectleft.blogspot.com (DISSECTING LEFTISM)

https://immigwatch.blogspot.com/ (IMMIGRATION WATCH)

https://awesternheart.blogspot.com/ (THE PSYCHOLOGIST)

http://jonjayray.com/blogall.html More blogs

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