On Tuesday morning, we documented that Yahoo was censoring emails that contained the domain name of one of the web sites supporting the Occupy Wall Street web site. Yahoo has now admitted that the censorship did take place, but suggested that the censorship was accidental.
A Yahoo statement on the censorship stated that, “the domain ‘occupywallst.org’ was being caught by one of our spam filters when some users tried to send messages containing it”.
This language is passive, implying that the spam filters automatically executed the censorship all on their own, without any human decision to censor the Occupy Wall Street web site. The statement doesn’t absolutely state that it was an accident, however. What’s left up in the air is the question of whether the spam filters prevented messages containing ‘occupywallst.org’ were blocked because someone at Yahoo programmed the spam filters specifically to block communication about that site.
It’s been over a decade that I’ve used Yahoo email, and in all that time, this is the first instance I’ve had of any email being blocked. Many other veteran Yahoo users confirm that email blockage is not at all a common experience.
The Occupy Wall Street activists who are still out there, sleeping in “Liberty Plaza”, assert that “Yahoo lied about occupywallst.org being in spam filters.”
What do you think? Given the evidence, what is the most plausible explanation?
As you know, some 5,000 folks have been staging a protest on Wall St. this week. As you also know, the Corporate Fascist media haven’t reported on it at all. And you know, too, that Yahoo stepped in with overt censorship of emails concerning the protest:
Yes, I’m aware that Yahoo has a weak excuse for this. Of course. Do you expect them to say: “Yes, we’re engaged in class warfare — get over it!”
I don’t buy their excuse, as I’ve personally been censored many times by Yahoo — for example, in responding to stories at the Yahoo news page.
Now, here’s what I find more notably creepy.
Slate, an online magazine founded by Bill Gates, stepped in with this apologia for Yahoo: “Yahoo didn’t mean to censor emails about Wall Street protests. The truth is much more insidious.” The supposedly “insidious” part is some crap about a “myopic business model.” (Here’s the link to the Slate article, but don’t go there just yet. I’ll tell you why in a second.)
http://www.slate.com/id/2304404/
But here’s the REALLY insidious part.
When hackers obtained a copy of the Bilderberger’s tax form, who but Microsoft Corporation (Bill Gates) shows up as a primary supporter? (See: http://publicintelligence.net/american-friends-of-bilderberg-2007-2009-tax-returns/
to view the tax form.)
And who else shows up on that form but the Washington Post? And guess whose servers Slate’s site is carried by? Turns out it’s the Washington Post. (You can see this for yourself now if you go to the Slate URL I provided above and watch the lower left hand corner of your browser. You’ll see the Washington Post servers flash by.)
Now, the Bilderbergers have been saying for years that they just a bunch of the world’s most powerful people getting together to chat in secrecy. No agenda. Just chat.
In my opinion, the stuff above provides something approximating evidence of direct Bilderberg involvement in US politics.
For more on the European side of things:
Oh, My, God! Ken! I see what you’re saying!
The Bilderbergers clearly are NOT just a bunch of people getting together to chat in secrecy…
If I understand you correctly…
The Bilderbergers are secretly the force behind the Occupy Wall Street protests! Why, it all adds up!
Seriously, we can all see the live feed, Ken. There are not 5,000 people protesting down on Wall Street.
But, if you’re going to exaggerate, why not do it with gusto?
Why not simply assert that there are a million protesters occupying Wall Street? For that matter, if you really had balls, you would be saying that there are a jillion Americans in Liberty Park. Math, and all its numbers, are just a corporate conspiracy, after all, set up by the Bilderbergers and their jillions of dollars.