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In reply to the discussion: Why are internet comments sections so right wing? [View all]freshwest
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The Libertarians / Paulites have announced they are spamming search results deliberately so people will get their views first. It's made searches ridiculous.
Many search engines only display a limited amount so when one is looking for data to verify if their recollections are valid, cannot find any liberal or progressive ones.
At one time, asking for information on search engines like scroogle gave a hundred answers per query, many of them to universities and original source material. I started using it in 2000 or around that time but it was forced offline.
Now it's nothing but rightwing propaganda. It's their way of wiping liberals off the mental landscape. The people making the queries aren't that ignorant, but after a while, that's all they get.
Fact-based results are also lacking due to religious spamming. Even looking up a Bible verse is now problematic, with more conservative opinion than the requested query for a verse.
They also have computer programs that take words and make mangled posts which are far beyond any form of PWD (posting while drunk) but they drive down any other comments. It's a vicious circle.
In the your example of Wikipedia editing, I've taken to saving results before they are edited by conservatives and the data gone.
This started with the Bush scrubbers and has not slowed down at all. They want like Rush said in his early days, to think like him and he would keep on until everyone did.
Authoritarian, deceitful, hateful and conservative, they always appeal to the lowest common denominator in human ineractions.