The Wed of Trust, which is a useful app for screening out sites containing malware, has taken on a political tack, and is now warning users to avoid conservative web sites, based on the notion that they are unreliable and contain misinformation. Evidently, liberals and leftists are tracking these pages and giving them poor ratings. In fact, it's possible that bots are being used to comb the web for conservative sites, such as all Conservapedia pages, and to automatically give these pages poor grades.
If you happen upon such a page, you get the WoT "red danger" warning, with a strong suggestion that you avoid the page -- not because of malware or cyber scammers, but in order to flee from unapproved political content.
WoT has joined Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, Google and other elements of Big Tech in the push to control information available to the general public, with the aim of purging the internet of content that, in the minds of certain liberals and leftists, could notionally help Trump, or that is vaguely associated with Trump's politics. This anti-conservative drive, by the way, has been hyped by such defenders of free speech as The New York Times. On more than one occasion the Times has run stories questioning why a tech outfit has not yet censored some "conspiracy theorist" or other.
Feb. 19, 2019: I checked Google for Conservapedia and saw that every Conservapedia page in sight had a WoT red danger warning. I should say that it is the Web of Trust that itself needs a warning label: Danger! Politically biased mechanism!
If you happen upon such a page, you get the WoT "red danger" warning, with a strong suggestion that you avoid the page -- not because of malware or cyber scammers, but in order to flee from unapproved political content.
WoT has joined Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, Google and other elements of Big Tech in the push to control information available to the general public, with the aim of purging the internet of content that, in the minds of certain liberals and leftists, could notionally help Trump, or that is vaguely associated with Trump's politics. This anti-conservative drive, by the way, has been hyped by such defenders of free speech as The New York Times. On more than one occasion the Times has run stories questioning why a tech outfit has not yet censored some "conspiracy theorist" or other.
Feb. 19, 2019: I checked Google for Conservapedia and saw that every Conservapedia page in sight had a WoT red danger warning. I should say that it is the Web of Trust that itself needs a warning label: Danger! Politically biased mechanism!
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