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dookiehowzer ago

when i googled pizzagate voat was 2 of the top 3 results, is it just me because of cache? i dunno

screenshot of my search just now http://imgur.com/4b1ShAO

reasonedandinformed ago

google "pizzagate" alone, and you WILL NOT find voat. If you do, it is a change from an hour ago. This is the point of the censorship. If someone has voat in the search, they already know of us. If they google just pizzagate, they may be curious, wanting to learn more, but they will not find this platform due to the censorship. What they will find are "fake news" articles that falsely claim to have debunked this. You will see a DMCA notice at the bottom of the page (make sure to scroll down to see and click on it), and v/pizzagate is literally one of the listed sites that is being blocked. [To find this, just do a search on the results in the complaint for voat since it is a long list.]

Since this censorship is a moving target, the results may vary a bit, but there is an absolute effort to block, or at least suppress, voat from showing up in results on google, in youtube searches/views, on twitter (where I and many others have been shadowbanned, blocked, or had accounts closed). This is an ongoing issue, so we need to find ways to get people to our site without using the term "pizzagate," which results in reduced exposure to those who do not know about the truth revealed on voat.

Edit: @LostandFound created an archive that shows the results we were getting this morning on a google search of pizzagate: http://archive.is/PFdyg (proves that voat was literally scrubbed from the results). https://voat.co/v/pizzagate is specifically listed in the banned results page off of that link - https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/13959495.

pinklb_q ago

Just visited from my browser (and I've never been on Voat from it) and it still shows up about 5-7 links down. So...

reasonedandinformed ago

Yes, but it was not showing AT ALL this morning due to the censorship effort. Here: http://archive.is/PFdyg

At least we have documented this even if it is temporarily reduced as a problem...but it still does not show voat in google searches of pizzagate in other countries. Example in UK google: https://www.google.co.uk/#q=pizzagate&* (not on first 5 pages, and then I stopped).