[WikiEN-l] Google bows to censorship

[Gwern Branwen]

> Google has agreed to take down links to a website that promotes racist views of indigenous Australians.
> Aboriginal man Steve Hodder-Watt recently discovered the US-based site by searching "Aboriginal and Encyclopedia" in the search engine.
> He tried to modify the entry on Encyclopedia Dramatica, a satirical and extremely racist version of Wikipedia, but was blocked from doing so.
...
> Mr Newhouse said Google agreed to take the link down after he filed an official complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission.
> "Lo and behold they agreed last night to take down the sites."

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-agrees-to-take-down-racist-site-20100115-maxd.html

I'm so torn. On the one hand, the hypocrisy is blinding - filtering
its search results is exactly what Google was doing in China. On the
other hand, it's Encyclopedia Dramatica...

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gwern