GOOGLE CENSORS ISSUES & INSIGHTS: It is highly doubtful that there has ever been a censorship machine as pervasive and powerful as Google. Google can manage its search results to favor or disfavor as it pleases, and Google can cut off the flow of advertising dollars to those expressing unapproved opinions.

Issues & Insights, the excellent opinion and analysis site that carries on the great work of the editorial section of Investor’s Business Daily, has been dealing with Google’s censors for some time and some interesting insights are being gleaned. But one insight in particular stands out:

“But what really kills us is when Google slaps the ‘unreliable and harmful’ label when we report on our own I&I/TIPP poll, which it has done before. Now it’s blocking its ads from appearing on the poll showing that Trump’s support increased after the three indictments. ‘Even After Three Indictments, Trump Support Rises: I&I/TIPP Poll’ How, we wonder, are we supposed to ‘fix’ that to Google’s satisfaction? Change the results?”

Thus is illustrated the stark reality about why those on the Left increasingly substitute censorship for reasoned discourse – they are determined to change reality to match their ideological illusions without regard for the costs or harms that result.