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Is free speech being manipulated by internet rating organizations?



I was not asked by NewsWithViews.com to write this short piece nor am I being compensated. Like millions of Americans, I am fed up with media manipulation.

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There are some questions here that need answering. NWVs as well as other constitutionally oriented web sites are constant targets of hackers as well as ISP providers blocking NWVs email alerts to their account holders or flagging NWVs email alerts as spam. We know this has been going on with AOL and others. After strong complaints it gets corrected. Strangely, it keeps happening and I don't believe for a second it's accidental. I can tell you it also goes on for You Tube and Google videos that are posted - especially 911 and Ron Paul videos. As an experiment, I have watched the number of views go up or down within minutes tracking the numbers for a specific video; many of us have seen the numbers not change for days at a time when dozens of people deliberately clicked on that video. There's no question the numbers are being fudged to give the appearance of "lack of interest" by the American people. As for NWVs, they track internally as I do my web site, the number of unique visitors, etc. NWVs does this to verify traffic numbers for advertising. Like all the top news sites, NWVs has to operate like a business or they can't stay on line. These monster servers alone cost a bundle every month. There appears to be a problem with Alexa, the premier Internet rating organization and NWVs doesn't know why. They have done the comparisons using Alexa and Quantcast. The latter shows much higher numbers during the same targeted dates, while Alexa drops NWVs in huge numbers over night. One computer expert indicated it might be because NWVs does not post the Alexa tool bar on their site to show the number of hits. This would amount to involuntary free advertising. I find this very disturbing if true. If that's not the case, I would like Alexa to explain these huge discrepancies in the numbers. More...


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