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This is rather disturbing. I didn't live through a dictatorial government in my country, but 30 years or so one that was ruling for about 50 years was put down.
by miguelpais 17y ago
This is rather disturbing. I didn't live through a dictatorial government in my country, but 30 years or so one that was ruling for about 50 years was put down. The worst thing about a dictatorship is not the censorship itself that will cut the parts that they don't want to be read from a text or a poem, it is when the author himself limits its expressiveness and freewill to the walls built by the fear of the censorship, and will instead write the version of his feelings that he thinks it will not get cut.
Google is doing the same... actively self-censoring, the worst form of censorship.
- joubert 17y agoAren't they simply withholding phrase suggestions which they deem wrong? I.e. you can still search for anything ranging from the angelic to the vile, and they probably don't censor (but of course, there's no way for an outsider to ever know). What I do wonder is whether Google, for example, actually filters out from its search results websites that are blacklisted by the Australian government, when people down under google.
- adharmad 17y agoIf that is the case, why are they not being consistent? Why withhold suggestions only in the case of "Islam"?
- gloob 17y agoThey don't. They also withhold suggestions in the case of "jews are" and "white people are" and "hot teens".
- gsmaverick 17y agoHow would the phrase suggestions in question be wrong? They have a severe case of political correctness!