Timothy Birdnow

While surfing Google results for news aggregates I found this little tidbit that appeared in The Atlantic back in April.

I didn't see this sort of thing anywhere before the election, but the author is crowing about how Conservative websites/blogs were seeing their traffic collapse.

Needless to say they blamed it on Trump, but what it actually tells us is that Google and the other gatekeepers had shadow-banned conservative sites.

I know this is true. Our own Aviary is pretty much disappeared from search results when it used to be easy to find, and as a result our traffic dropped down in a major way some years back. The Gateway Pundit was huge and now you struggle to find it and THAT was because Google decided to simply disappear it.

So what does that tell us? It tells us that the mandarins of information have purposely suppressed conservvative thought to tamper with the election, that's what it tells us.

The next Attorney General needs to file a number of anti-trust lawsuits - against Google,against Meta, against network news. They have colluded, and with the aid of our government, to strangle free speech.

That is why small blogs like the Aviary largely no longer exist; just a few die-hards keep at it. You cannot profit from it, certainly; advertisers aren't going to pay for a platform nobody can find.

I had a friend who worked in radio and his wife took a sales job with the tiny station he worked at in North Carolina. She quit after a couple of weeks, largely because you couldn't pick up the station outisid of a few miles from the transmission tower. Nobody advertises on a station they can't even tune in. And that is what happened to most conservative blogs.

I stay at it because it's good for my emotiional health; I like to get my thoughts out. It's like a diary to some. But it doesn't pay anything (I never monetized it and now never will) and it takes a lot of time and effort. Few are stalwart enough to hang in with this, especially since I know that Ihave no audience, just a few loyal readers (like Bill and MIke).

But it wasn't always so. My blog posts were linked up by a lot of writers, and in fact it made it into a number of books written by different authors over the years. We hadn't made it big but we teetered on the edge. Now it's the equivalent of a Facebook page, only without even the readers that those attract. I wonder sometimes why I bother with this.

We had a good online ranking until Google suppressed us. Now I think we are rating at well under the two million mark. In other words we aren't even gnat-like.

We used to have some illustrious readers too. I am certain Rush Limbaugh was a fan, for instance. He lifted my phrase "the Max Headroom President" when speaking about Obama the day I said it here, and nobody said that as a web search showed. He also mentioned a number of articles in the exact same order I mentioned over global warming once, and some of these articles were quite obscure. I know Rush knew about me; he had me in his stack of stuff when I wrote for American Thinker on a couple of occasions.

But now I doubt anyone even remembers me or the old Birdblog, or the Aviary.

Sometimes I consider turning this into a satire site like the Babylon Bee, or making it a literary magazine featuring my own writing. I may wind up doing that yet.

So I may have an ax to grind, but I'd like to grind it in the skull of that "don't be evil" corporation that has decided my website should be banished to oblivion. But the point is control of the means of disseminating information is the key to political power and the Left has always understood that and has largely controlled it - first with newspapers, then with radio and then television and now with their dominance of the internet. They don't so much defeat us as simply silence us so we can't compete. Like Barack Obama, they clear the field of any competition using dirty tactics. We have to fight fire with fire.

I hope Trump understands this. The only we we can make permanent changes is to break the power of their tongues. I am mindful of the Book of Revelation where the Woman and her newborn child are carried away by a flood from the mouth of the dragon; that SO fits the current situation where the dragon of liberalism is drowning us with a flood of lies. Well, how do you fight a dragon like an alligator? You first grab their mouths and hold them shut. The leftist media are nothing more than crocodiles and if we let them open their mouths they will clamp down on us and we will be dragged to their meat locker after a crazy death roll.

Another analogy; the King Cobra is lethal but the Mongoose usually kills it. We are the Mongeese (Mongooses?) We can kill the poisonous viper, but we have to be quick.

So whoever heads up the DOJ needs to go after the liars who are strangling us.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 03:01 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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