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I kind of agree with Vlado on some level.

If you put something on twitter, and then get banned, yeah, that's you getting kicked off of a private platform.

But Google is not twitter. Google is a lookup system. Google is the lookup system. There isn't really competition (Bing is a hoax created by the Chinese). It's kind-of like if the dewey decimal system refused to list some authors.

That said, I'm not familiar with wsws.org, but they are clearly not completely unlisted (I found them with google searches just fine, and they mention themselves that they only had a reduction of traffic from Google).

I found another article on their site about the same issue, which actually has some quotes:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/07/31/goog-j31.html

Specifically here's them talking about the Google algorithm change.

Framed as a mere change to technical procedures, Gomes’s statement legitimizes Internet censorship as a necessary response to “the phenomenon of ‘fake news,’ where content on the web has contributed to the spread of blatantly misleading, low quality, offensive or downright false information.”

Well, ok, I guess wsws just has to prove that they are not "low quality" and don't have anything "blatantly misleading" on their site.

Next paragraph:

The “phenomenon of ‘fake news’” is, itself, the principal “fake news” story of 2017. In its origins and propagation, it has all the well-known characteristics of what used to be called CIA “misinformation” campaigns, aimed at discrediting left-wing opponents of state and corporate interests.

Uhhhhh.

The existence of 2016's fake news wave is fairly well-documented:

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/30/read-all-about-it-the-biggest-fake-news-stories-of-2016.html

And also generally not linked to the CIA (or Russia for that matter). These stories generated millions of clicks, generating a lot of ad revenue. Most of them were traced back to poor people needing money in places like Macedonia recognizing a potential source of income.

(Not to say that CIA misinformation campaigns or Russian misinformation campaigns have never happened, they have, buuut I think calling wsws.org here "misleading" sounds like an apt description).
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