google & controversial sites:
In conformance with the laws of certain countries, Google has removed the listings of a number of controversial sites in its search engine listings. The sites that Google was required to remove are your usual right-wing extremist, neo-nazi, white-supremacist, anti-semitic type sites, but they have also been required to ban certain Christian sites, and anti-abortion sites. I find it rather strange that they should be forced to ban anti-abortion sites rather than abortion sites, that seems to say that it’s ok to dig up information on murder, but not ok to research the joys of life.
Hey, I’m not taking sides either way here, but I want consistency. If they’re going to ban anti-abortion sites from the listings, then they should have to scrap abortion sites too; no anti-semitic sites, no pro-Jihad sites. The report contains no mention of removing terrorist related sites, or jihad related sites. At this rate they might even ban anti-whaling sites, but I’m guessing that anti-globalisation homepages will suit them just fine. The French really get my goat sometimes.
