Monday, January 11, 2010
Google and Censorship
Many currently believe that Google Inc. is one of the most technologically advanced and culturally spreading companies and search engines available today. However, according to this news article Google is a depriving the public of good media. Apparently Google is filtering the culturally degrading and possibly upsetting media from certain countries while allowing others to still gain access to such material. Google most likely does this to filter the types of results that could be brought up for simple searches of harmless words and the offensiveness of some of the results in other cases. Such censorship can actually be thought of as helpful and harmless when one really thinks about the good of others.
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It sounds to me that you're making the assumption that because Google is such a massive web entity, they need to answer to our qualms about censorship. But do they? Web search is a private service. If Google refused to store any pages with references to monkeys, could we do anything about it?
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