I’m not making accusations yet – but Google had better be very very very careful about dumping emails from political groups into their “spam” folders.
In between the normal penis enlargement messages, I found an email from these folks
http://www.politicalmedia.com/
they appear to be a paid political advertising group for the Republican “Establishment”.
The subject line is: “Demand Obama revoke his executive privilege”
The purported purpose of the email is a “petition” to “flood the Oval Office” (aka The Republican fund raising groups) with a million signatures to send a message to Barack Obama!
Call me stupid, but sending a list of a million names of people who want Eric Holder to resign to the Department of Justice that he runs sounds like an invitation to be added to a Democratic party “enemies list” for execution when the Obama Internal Security Force is turned loose.
The group is run by a guy named Dennis Whitfield
http://conservative.org/about-acu/executive-staff/dennis-whitfield/
who has spent his entire life working for government in the Beltway and for related lobbying groups like the NFIB and wouldn’t know a “real American” if Sarah Palin walked into his office and said “Hi!”.
I’m not a sheep.
While this email was “spammy” and unsolicited, it was not randomly directed at me. My guess is they got my email from the Washington Times mailing list.
Google and the U.S. Government have been in bed together for years, esp. supporting the Dems. It doesn’t surprise me that they would censor e-mail geared to Republicans or right-wingers.
Routinely the government requests information on Google users…and Google freely admits that they give it to them. I use Google as little as possible and am cautious even then.
Google has a ‘transparency report’ section where you can supposedly see what governments have requested information, information removal, and the status of Google at any given time. Kind of interesting to read (if it is indeed accurate):
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/
The only thing that mitigates my concern is that at least it arrived in my spam folder. If Google was actively censoring based on political content, there would be no email at all and I wouldn’t know about it.
So Ron Paul wasn’t being censored and cheated by google and lost just because he did not have enough voter support?
Breitbart’s Daily Newsletter wound up in gmail spam today.
The people who would make fake 911 calls to have SWAT teams show up an people’s houses at gunpoint would have no moral issue with this: – have a few hundred people sign up for conservative newsletters, then report it as spam each day until Google’s algorithms decide “Wow, this looks spammy”