My Substack has been blacked out by DuckDuckGo (as well as Google, Yahoo, Bing)

It's getting ever harder to go off the media grid and still be heard

“J” tells me (scroll down) that my defense of Bobby Kennedy does not come up on DuckDuckGo. I did a search myself, and “J” is right.

Then I did a search on “Mark Crispin Miller” and “Substack,” and found that DuckDuckGo has also blacked out this newsletter overall. Search the names of other COVID dissidents with Substack columns—Robert Malone, Steve Kirsch, Celia Farber, Naomi Wolf, Toby Rogers, Margaret Anna Alice—and they do come up on DuckDuckGo; but this one doesn’t.

Is this due to some glitch, or is it a deliberate stroke of censorship? I note that News from Underground, my list-serve, does come up on DuckDuckGo; but that’s a daily email list, so what I send out that way is not publicly accessible, whereas Substack is far more visible (or would be, in my case). It’s only on Substack, moreover, that I send out my own writings, while what I send the members of my list is mostly links to other stuff.

Please feel free to share your thoughts about this (apparent) blackout; and, if you’re inclined, I would appreciate your also helping spread the word about this column, in whatever way you can, because I now have the feeling that I’m under inexplicit fire. (Gmail has apparently been unsubscribing members of my list-serve for the last few weeks.)

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Hi Mark, 

I hope this email finds you well. Thank you for all your efforts, and for your superb writing and research, amidst this Covid insanity. 

We are both acutely aware of the massive, ongoing censorship and search engine suppression, but here's a question for you:

When I search DuckDuckgo.com for your recent (excellent!) article... 

"Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. owes us NO apology for what he said in Washington on Jan. 23"

... using the EXACT words of your title

Duckduckgo provides no results for your article! It only provides the links to the usual governing media suspects. 

Have you noticed this?

For a number of years now, I've used Duckduckgo for all searches, because it is supposedly superior to the privacy-invading search engines (and I hate google for many years, for many reasons). 

However, it appears that DuckDuckgo is either

[a] suppressing all dissident thought regarding "covid," or, 

[b] they do not "search for," or include in their search results, content that is posted on Substack?

Unfortunately, neither of the above ("a" or "b") would surprise me, given the Covid information control hellscape in which we find ourselves. 

That said, I think there is an untold "story" to be told here, because Duckduckgo.com is currently running expensive advertisements on TV boasting (basically) of its ethical/moral superiority vis a vis privacy. However, the adverts don't mention anything about censorship; perhaps they need to? 

I just wanted to bring this to your attention, in case you or your contacts may be able to shed some additional light on this situation regarding a new wrinkle to the massive censorship and suppression to which we are all being subjected. 

To state the obvious, it is profoundly troubling that important intellectual contributions can (evidently) be completely hidden, and/or erased from, the essential public conversation in which we must all be engaged. 

Kind regards, 

J

P.S. I just tried the search again. Put the exact title of your article. Hit "search." Then scrolled down the long list of "results"... your article does not appear at all. Then I retried, by adding your last name "Miller" to the article title search. Still, nothing. 

This is horrifying. 

I just used Bing.com and did the same search, with your exact title, like this, without beginning or end quotes:

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. owes us NO apology for what he said in Washington on Jan. 23

Again, no results, at least not within the first four pages of results.