Another political site blocked by Google/Blogger
By Mary Rizzo • Aug 7th, 2009 at 15:00 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Ideas and Projects, Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Resistance, Zionism
The censorship of Google/Blogger does not cease. Many have fallen victim to it, and when it happens, it's quite shocking, especially if you have many thousands come to read each day and what you print can't usually be found in mainstream media. I ran Peacepalestine, which was a very popular blog. It had faced quite of few of its own trials, especially because censorship and gatekeeping are enemies of spreading information about our situation, as did many other blogs that reported the atrocities of Israel and the Imperialist Occupation forces causing hell in the Middle East. We went through all that happened below, and I have written amply about it, as well as my friend, Blogger Machetera, giving some insight but also some tips for bloggers to protect their rights of free speech. http://peacepalestine.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/internet-censorship-the-ballad-of-gilad-and-pepa/. Another dear friend, Steve of Desert Peace posted my tips. http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/is-google-ethnic-cleansing-the-internet/. I can only suggest that those who run blogs consider seriously making mirror sites, archiving what you can, and not giving up!
This was sent to me by Machetera:
Sibel Edmonds just emailed me saying that she has been blocked from her Blog account by Google. The timing is suspicious given her two recent explosive radio interviews and having just been subpoenaed as well. She wants support from anyone to disseminate this information.
I have deleted her personal email but the below is in its entirety from her
website
http://www.justacitizen.com/Press_Releases/URGENTGoogle%27s%20Blogger-Aug6.htm
URGENT: GOOGLE BLOCKS MY SITE DURING SENSITIVE PERIOD
WE NEED YOUR HELP
My Blog Site http://123realchange.blogspot.com is now blocked by Google/Blogger. They will not let me post during this most sensitive period, when I am about to provide deposition on Foreign US government illegal operations in the United States!
A few weeks ago I started receiving Google & Blogger warnings from my
technologically savvy friends and well-wishers, who encouraged me to have a mirror site as a back up and or cease using Google's Blogger all together. I
did take these warnings seriously and started looking at alternatives and
other options. Well, this is what I got from Blogger yesterday:
*From: **Blogger** <no-reply@google.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Subject: http://123realchange.blogspot.com/ - ACTION REQUIRED
To: XXXXXXXXXXXX
Hello,
Your blog at: http://123realchange.blogspot.com/ has been identified as a
potential spam blog. To correct this, please request a review by filling
out the form at
http://www.blogger.com/unlock-blog.g?lockedBlogID=6542765284440328864
Your blog will be deleted in 20 days if it isn't reviewed, and your
readers will see a warning page during this time. After we receive your
request, we'll review your blog and unlock it within two business days. Once
we have reviewed and determined your blog is not spam, the blog will be
unlocked and the message in your Blogger dashboard will no longer be
displayed. If this blog doesn't belong to you, you don't have to do
anything, and any other blogs you may have won't be affected.
We find spam by using an automated classifier. Automatic spam detection
is inherently fuzzy, and occasionally a blog like yours is flagged
incorrectly. We sincerely apologize for this error. By using this kind of
system, however, we can dedicate more storage, bandwidth, and engineering
resources to bloggers like you instead of to spammers. For more information, please see Blogger Help: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42577
Thank you for your understanding and for your help with our spam-fighting
efforts.
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
P.S. Just one more reminder: Unless you request a review, your blog will
be deleted in 20 days. Click this link to request the review:
http://www.blogger.com/unlock-blog.g?lockedBlogID=6542765284440328864
*
I am still looking into it and will be corresponding with them to find out
what the heck is going on, but I must say the timing of this is extremely
troubling:
Is it coincidence that this comes up when I am subpoenaed <http://123realchange.blogspot.com/2009/08/breaking-news.html>to
provide sworn deposition on matters that have sent our government
scrambling and certain high-level criminal entities sweating big time?
Is this due to my latest interviews for my Boiling Frogs Show on explosive
issues such as AIPAC, Iran, Central Asia, and Pakistan? We know big brother
NSA has been listening, and my guests have really been talking. We just
wrapped up our phone interviews with Phil Giraldi (on AIPAC & Israel and
more), Richard Barlow (on Pakistan and what our government didn't want its
people to know), Joe Trento (on Iran, Brzezinski, and more), Sandalio
Gonzalez (on our phony War on Drugs, House of Death, Kent Memo, and
more)? You see what I am getting at here?
Or is it the fact that this blog is becoming more popular, the visitors'
number has been going up rapidly, and its content getting picked up by many, nationally and internationally? And I am talking about content and topics that are blacklisted by the US Mainstream Media.
I don't know the answer. I may never know. However, what I know is this: I
better find a different or multiple different, blog sites and keep this forum alive. I also want to warn others who may become subject to this kind of notice, or maybe get terminated without any notice!
Please help me, thus all of us, resolve this blockage immediately, since in
the next few days this blog may prove to be extremely crucial to report
developing news and cases which will not be covered by MSM.
Thank you,
Sibel Edmonds
Mary Rizzo is an art restorer, translator and writer living in Italy. Editor and co-founder of Palestine Think Tank, co-founder of Tlaxcala translations collective. Her personal blog is Peacepalestine.
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All i can say is Blogspot did me a big favour when they blocked my Blog. I since moved over to Wordpress where my readership has increased immensly.
When you are atthe mercy of sites owned by Google or any other zionist run site, these actions are to be expected.
I always maintained "that they can shut us down but they can never shut us up"!
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hosting your own blog can provide additional security from these attacks. wordpress.org has really easy instructions for setting up a blog on our own server, and I agree with Steve the platform is way better than blogger
Freedom of speech…….. Yeah right.
Hey,
We shouldn't expect any less from the Zionists who do far more despicable things to silence people who oppose them. Yesterday Google did not let me enter blogs on blogger with a weird message that I can't access the blogs though after a few hours it worked out.
Thanks for the heads up Mary.
Thanks Steve, Andrew, Izabella and RB! It's really important to always look for alternatives to these things (blogger, google, you tube), because we find that they are quick to do what they want to us and we have no control. Transferring the site is daunting, (starting one is even harder!) but we have to be prepared for that. We haven't got much choice if we still want to keep reporting and letting others report. RB, make sure you make a mirror blog! They attack at any given moment and mine lasted weeks (and the censorship one due to the lawsuit threat) lasted a day, but it was enough to set the wheels in motion. Steve's lasted a LONG time… you never know when it will hit you, but if you are against Israel, sooner or later, the wheels will turn that way!
Hello,
I showed the link to three people on blogger and one of them told me the same thing that happened to Sibel above but the person contacted blogger and the blog is on again. Maybe this time it is a regular spam check like they do with hotmail sometimes or maybe not but we should all be careful.
Yeah you are right Mary I should do that. Thanks
Listen, I have seen this before. Her blog will be back in a week most likely. I wont go into too much detail, but during the US presidential primaries, when Clinton was running against Obama. Towards the end when the Clinton bloggers had been thrown off huffpo and Dkos for not supporting obama, thousands had then begun a campaign against obama and the DNC and they broke from the democratic party (became independants)and began the "Just say no" and the "puma" sites. It was a critical time when they were in the process of organising against the DNC for not counting florida and michigan votes, Then many of the leaders, close to 23 blogs on google blogger were locked just like this for the very same reason. When this happened I followed it closely, here's one link where you can see what i mean and, more importantly, how it can happen to your blog when a "well organised" gang decide to target you.
read about it here
http://bloggasm.com/whos-responsible-for-shutting-down-a-number-of-anti-obama-blogspot-accounts
palestina ,country still get conflic with other country
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