Researcher Gives Google a Thumbs Down on Impartiality
By Chad Groening
May 25, 2006(AgapePress) -
A public-policy think tank is calling search engine giant Google to task for removing news organizations from "Google News" that have been critical of radical Islam. An official with the organization suggests the popular Internet website is practicing censorship and exercising a double-standard.Google has removed sites like New Media Journal and the Jawa Report from its Google News service for what it calls "hate speech" against Islam. Sonia Arrison, director of technology at the Pacific Research Institute, points out the move was made at the same time Google was urging Congress to pass Internet neutrality legislation.
It is somewhat ironic that Google is trying to censor some things from its search engine at the same time as it's making this very public plea for something called net neutrality, where it's trying to use Congress and legislation to regulate the Internet so that censorship doesn't happen," Arrison notes. "So the question is, what's really going on here with Google and net neutrality and censorship?"
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posted by Super Hip GMa @ 7:07 AM
7 Comments:
It is interesting how those who do the most censoring make the biggest noise against censorship. Just like those who scream the loudest about tolerance are usually those who are the most intolerant of other beliefs.
Especially if it concerns Jesus Christ. They spout how everyone should be tolerant of everyone elses beliefs...unless of course that belief has anything to do with Christianity...then that tolerant attitude becomes null and void.
In other words those who yell about intolerance only mean tolerance towards what they believe. Kind of a double standard don't ya think?
Cindy, you and I are on the same wave length. A bill proposed now says that the government will MONITOR our internet searches to make sure the regulations are being followed. It is none of their business what we search online. Also, as a Christian, I totally agree with you on the tolerance issue.
I agree - there is something very fishy going on here with this net neutrality notion! It is interesting that these groups that are being censored also happen to be conservative Christian groups. Coincidence? I also find it interesting that Yahoo, another big NN supporter has helped put Chinese dissidents in jail for what they post on the Internet. This just smells bad and needs to be taken off the table immediately!
I'd heard about the Yahoo-China bit, but this factoid on Google is very interesting...I guess it's not a surprise that these hypocrites would be leading the fight for Net Neutrality, considering it's more of a corporate-led intiative, not the consumer! And really, are consumers being abused in some capacity by internet providers that I'm not aware of, that need need government "regulation"? I don't think so!
I appreciate all of your comments. It is nice to know that others have some of the same beliefs that I have. I used to wonder if I was becoming paranoid over all the unbelievable news we have been hearing. We have got to be entering the "end times". This Net Neutrality is garbage. Freedom of speech, along with many other freedoms are quickly disappearing for the conservative Christians. Satan is alive & well.
Net neutrality as the harbinger of the end times? Well, God certainly is subtle. Moreso, I think this is an example of the extraorindary hubris of a company that has grown extremely powerful in recent years. The fact that this company happens to be a major Internet portal is troubling, but eventually people wil get tired of their shenanigans. The free market will do its job, just as it will with matters of "net neutrality".
JC and NN in the same post? If you say so! Regardless of what you believe, it's ironic, hilarious, and a little scary that we're getting this kind of news about a company arrogant enough to have "Do No Evil" as its motto. Should there be an asterisk after that - *except when it's good for business - ?
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