Comments on: Google Bows to Government’s Censorship Orders—in Australia?

By: Samantha

Samantha — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:18:39 +0000

this is the beginning of an article on their site about a little girl who was born deformed. “something that undoubtedly would enrage Hitler. Little Juliana is missing 30 – 40 percent of the bones in her face, so she can’t bite down if you decide to rape her in the mouth (if for some reason you would want to).” There’s a gulf between “satire” and hate. I am not an advocate of censorship in general, but good for the guy who attempted to do something!

By: Hello? Can you read this? « Blug…

Hello? Can you read this? « Blug… — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:35:08 +0000

[...] items that go against our local laws like this example for aboriginal and ecyclopedia noted by Marketing Pilgrim. You’ll see the following statement at the bottom of first search screen: In response to a [...]

By: Rudy McCormick

Rudy McCormick — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:14:06 +0000

I can understand google not wanting to post links of racist sites. Seems only logical.

By: Luci

Luci — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:19:53 +0000

Google’s been ‘omitting’ results for awhile, but usually you can choose to view them anyway.
If a person feels strongly enough to complain then the link probably should be delisted, at least until it’s been looked into fully and a decision has been reached on whether or not it’s something just meant to be satire, or something that was purposefully racist.
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By: Aussiewebmaster

Aussiewebmaster — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:15:31 +0000

Funny they will do it there but not in US results because there are legal loopholes a la Ripoff Reports

By: Anand

Anand — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:48:08 +0000

This kind of censorship (removing it and then informing the user at the bottom of the page) has existed for a long time and I remember seeing such a thing at least 3-4 years back. But these are specific legal-related stuff that exists everywhere…You can’t compare it with what Google faces in China – where they have to brush almost everything under the carpet to show ‘clean’ results..
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By: Tanya Cumpston

Tanya Cumpston — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:42:11 +0000

Google Australia is obliged to obey the law of the land, regardless of what it thinks about it. If it finds that too objectionable, its only recourse is to host its Australia-specific search engine offshore, or close it down. They may feel that such steps should be reserved for an issue of greater significance (such as the mandatory filter, perhaps?).