Google Blacklisting, Dvorak.org Malware Warnings, Browser Censorship
Google blacklisted Dvorak.org and associated sites including NoAgendaShow.com following a WordPress injection infection. The hosts argue that Google has become the "internet police," using browser-level blacklisting in Chrome and Firefox to control web access. Criticism is directed at Jeff Jarvis and Google executive Matt Cutts for their roles in deifying the company's influence over information flow.
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00:00 Stay on your side of the street and smile! Adam Curry, John C. Devorah. It's Sunday, May 5th, 2013, time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 510! This is no agenda. Buenos Dias, a cinco de Mayo! From the Travis Hides Hideout, we're SoCalMes, MoFo in Austin, Texas. In the morning, everybody, I'm your Tourette terrorist, Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, uh... where i remain in jesse blackberry a sankara my sankara my idea yeah well we didn't get much action this week in terms of our people help us out because we got blacklisted by the google police well let me just say uh... that uh... it is that uh... first of all i'm looking for a job it is a sad sad state of affairs where we have in exchange for cheap
00:56 trinkets like Chrome and Gmail and Google Docs and all of this crap we have allowed the government because let us be honest Google is the government now police the internet and we're allowing it well I've got a column coming out in PC magazine tomorrow Monday maybe we need to explain what's happening first people should read it well here's what happened there's a injection infection taking place on a lot of WordPress blogs. Now I'm seeing it and it showed up immediately showed up on my blog through some mechanism we still can't identify where it's coming from. I honestly believe it still could be coming from Google since on one of the safe browsing pages it shows that they're infected but that's to be discussed in another venue. Anyway so we got this and so we immediately got blacklisted
01:55 and on the Chrome browser and then we got blacklisted on the Firefox browser which apparently uses the same blacklist now. And the question by the way, just as an aside, let me mention that this is a WordPress exploit. Dvorak.org slash NA is a stagnant page that has nothing to do with my WordPress. Well, let me just take this a little further because while this... and so what happens just so people who haven't seen it, you can probably go to... in fact if this is 2015 you can still probably go to Dvorak.org and see this. And up pops a, in fact, let's just take a look at this. It's not just saying, hey, something could go wrong here. No, no. There is a little drawing, a cartoon of John. It is actually John with his prison stripes crawling through your laptop screen and pressing your keyboard. And the statement, this website contains malware.
02:56 And what's interesting is that when this happened to Dvorak.org, it happened to curry.com, it happened to N.A. Show Notes, it happened to noagendashow.com, and the reason it happened there is because of a simple image that was linked from the Dvorak website, from a static page, just an image on your server. So even an embed, is what that technically is, and that's just an image coming from your website was enough to blacklist my sites, the show site and the show notes site as having malware which is technically not true. Now here's... And NoahJennerShow.com is on Squarespace which is notorious for preventing this stuff. So why would they get blacklisted? Well because... well there's a couple of... first of all
03:52 This is the problem when you let a company be the boss. And so we've, oh, Chrome. And by the way, Chrome is probably the best browser out there when it comes to being fast and not crashing like a bunch of crap like Firefox does all the time. And we as an entire universe have allowed this to happen. It's like the Indians, like the American Indians taking, oh, look at the beads. They're so pretty. Oh a mirror, I can see my face. And now we have this and now they're the boss because apparently... No matter what website you go to, these browsers are reporting back to Command Central, to Google. And wait, let me stop you there. When did we get browser level blacklisting? When did that happen? Well, apparently it's, it's no one... Well, here's the thing that's really sad. Because I was sitting back and watching the emails just stream in. You, by the way, were sitting in your underwear on your chaise lounge, had no idea. I had to call you.
04:51 I was on it when you called. You were on the Shays lounge. I opened up my browser, hey you're DeSites, Block, I'm not Delaware. You were in your Shays lounge. Because you went, oh really? Oh, hold on let me check. No. But here's the thing that is sad. The majority of people that I got email from and very intelligent people because this has nothing to do with being smart or dumb, but it's just understanding of the technology of what's happening actually believe I can still see this in the comments on the posts you put on Dvorak.org slash blog actually believe that the browser is scanning for like some super virus detector and the browser is scanning and looking to make sure that the websites are safe because the minute you know you of course your this exploit was cleaned up and that was and that was taken care of and people are still saying no the browser still reports it as it's a problem
05:54 The browser is not scanning for anything. This is a blacklist. You're on a it's like Schindler's List Screw it. This is this is good. Yeah, you're on the opposite. I'm sorry. Yes, you're on that You're on the Hitler list the Google SSC highs police I shit list and until they decide to take you off which I'm sure you know they're really motivated to do that after you you know say that they're there their toy project is is a hoax and I'm sure they're real motivated to go rushing over to the database. One keystroke could fix this problem. Could fix it. Well, here's what bothers me the most about what you just said.
06:35 They are obviously using the Google bots to find stuff and then they put it on the blacklist. Obviously, they don't do a very good job of it because of my Avast and other virus checkers will find pages constantly that have something on them that it doesn't like and refuses to let me look at it unless I go through a process, which I prefer. I'd rather be told by my own virus checker Because if the page gets fixed and I go back and the virus checker doesn't see anything then well, okay here's here's the page This is the case with Google. They send the robot out. They find a bad page put it on the blacklist and then When the robot goes back out and they see the page is clean, why isn't the blacklist cleaned up in the exact same milliseconds that it was banned? Oh no. Oh no, no. This is, so this is how, this is the thing that, and I should have known when this happened to me. Remember I had the Big App Show app, and it was great. I was doing like a couple thousand dollars a month, and you know, with people, you know, liking the ads that I was, I was actually programming ads in my apps. Like, hey man, this might be something you're interested in.
07:34 Then Google sent me a note and said oh listen. This is clearly click fraud clearly You know you're enticing your audience to to click on these ads say yeah I'm telling this is stuff that's relevant, and they said well you're blacklisted forever You can fill out a form which of course I did and it goes in you know straight into the trash bit bucket dev null I'm I am forever banned from ever using any of Google's ad products ever again There's no way to undo that and this is good. This potentially could go on for months this problem You have of course we're bitching about it. So maybe they'll understand the P. Maybe and what I'm who am I kidding? No, no, no fuck about
08:16 they have no relationships with the press. No, they don't give a crap. They have a little thing called press at google.com and you're supposed to go and they always send you notes back when they rarely send them and it's anonymous. anonymous there they do not interact at all because again who knows I mean they that's just their style and I by the way I also want to call out some people the people on G Google plus that that you know piece of shit that is trying to compete with Facebook and Twitter well hold on people this is John actually mad I just want to point out the John is actually mad now for all the times you weren't short now he's pissed go ahead John
08:53 so i want to call jeff jarvis as a douche bag if you'd hit the button for me of course he writes in there all the time this is a guy who wrote a book on what would google do and he's a professor at one of the new york's colleges fear factories and he says google's he's he's a post he did on the third google's grand gentleman matt cuts refuses to lower himself to the level of John C. Dvorak's narc. Really, John? You think Google would bother itself and risk its reputation to bring revenge upon everyone who ever said anything bad about them? Yeah! Yeah, for sure!
09:41 Is that what Jim Jarvis wrote? Yeah! What an a-hole. And who is this Cuts guy? Because I saw his thing. He's the Google Grand Gentleman. The Grand Gentleman? Is he a dandy? That's what Jarvis calls him. Hey, by the way, now Skype is starting to suck. Could you stop writing columns about these companies, please? We're trying to run a business here. This is not working out for us. So, yeah, I read Kutz's... hold on a second, he wrote something... I mean, these guys basically have become the police. Yes, and that's the question that I'm asking. Why? And how did anyone let this happen? And why are we putting up with it? Okay, so this is what I said. We're putting up with it because we took trinkets of browser crap in exchange, all free. Oh, it's free! And here you go. Now Google is in charge. The only avenue I see left, there's only three things we can do.
