In 20/20 hindsight, I should have paid more attention to the drop in traffic to my blog (both views and comments posted) since January 2024, and noted Google's de-emphasizing blogs in favour of extruded text product, and realized: if you suppress publi...

Charlie Stross

In 20/20 hindsight, I should have paid more attention to the drop in traffic to my blog (both views and comments posted) since January 2024, and noted Google's de-emphasizing blogs in favour of extruded text product, and realized: if you suppress public speech via small private media (blogs) you're implicitly boosting the reach of centrally controlled platforms.

This is censorship with American characteristics.

The fix, as they say, is in.