[WikiEN-l] Google bows to censorship

[Fred Bauder]

>> 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...
>
> --
> gwern

Oh, they're cool; shine it on...

Fred Bauder