Comments on: “It’s our policy not to police or censor content”

By: chris olberding

chris olberding — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:22:28 +0000

How times have changed:
Google to hand over blogger’s IP address
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/27/2235251

By: Manuel Emygdio

Manuel Emygdio — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:23:47 +0000

There’s nothing quite like a plain example of what’s going on..
See the difference between the same keyword search “Tiananmen” in different google host countries:

http://images.google.es/images?svnum=100&hl=es&lr=lang_es%7Clang_en&safe=off&q=tiananmen&btnG=B%C3%BAsqueda —> Google Spain

http://images.google.es/images?svnum=100&hl=es&lr=lang_es%7Clang_en&cr=countryCN&safe=off&q=tiananmen&btnG=B%C3%BAsqueda —> Google China

By: Rami B.

Rami B. — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:37:51 +0000

It seems the Censorship page has been modified. Here is the original (from Google cache results):

Google does not censor results for any search term. The order and content of our results are completely automated; we do not manipulate our search results by hand. We believe strongly in allowing the democracy of the web to determine the inclusion and ranking of sites in our search results. To learn more about Google’s search technology, please visit
http://www.google.com/technology/index.html

replaced with:

It is Google’s policy not to censor search results. However, in response to local laws, regulations, or policies, we may do so. When we remove search results for these reasons, we display a notice on our search results pages. Please note: For some older removals (before March 2005), we may not show a notice at this time.

By: Kato

Kato — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:00:59 +0000

By cooperating with China’s cencorship policy, Google makes themselves complicit in totalitarian oppression. IBM still hasn’t lived down it’s role in helping the 3rd Reich catalog their victims. Why would Google even want to go down that road?