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Saturday, May 20, 2006
It's not just Google And net censorship is well advanced. Google is now well-known for it (there is another example of their evil ways here) but one can argue that as long as they are not breaking any law, a private company can do as it likes. Seeing that there are already myriads of regulations that businesses have to obey in order to protect the public, however, another law to protect the public from information censorship by semi-monopolists like Google might not be such a bad idea. One hopes, however, that the market will solve the problem without the need for government intervention. The evil practices of Google may simply create a market for another more comprehensive search facility. So far, however, it does not seem to be happening. There seem to be certain sites or sections of sites which are off limits to ALL search engines. And -- you guessed it -- sites that engage in holocaust denial seem to be an example of that. I tried to find this article using MSN search, Google and Clusty.com -- the three engines that usually give me the best results. No luck -- even though the site concerned is quite a prominent far-Right site and even though the article has been up for a month -- plenty of time for the search crawlers to find it. Since this seems to have come about voluntarily, imagine what might happen to anything but the tamest conservative sites if a future Democrat incumbent in the White House saw fit to exert a little gentle "pressure" on the search companies. A threat of prosecution for promoting "hate speech" should do the trick. (For more postings from me, see TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and DISSECTING LEFTISM. My Home Page. Email me (John Ray) here.) Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by JR at 8:57 PM |
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1 Comments:
I googled for "France - Six Months in Prison for Holocaust Disbeliever" and it was the first item.
I'm more concerned about them dropping sites from the news page simply because they think Islam is hurting people.
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