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They're probably just trying to be sensitive to their audience and sponsors. Google also censors pornography because a subset of users are offended by it.
by itchitawa 13y ago
They're probably just trying to be sensitive to their audience and sponsors. Google also censors pornography because a subset of users are offended by it.
- davidjgraph 13y ago> Google also censors pornography because a subset of users are offended by it. Censoring pornography doesn't infringe anyone's human rights.
- icebraining 13y agoWhy? Pornography is speech too.
- Shivetya 13y agowhen a private entity chooses what it displays to the public I have no qualms with it, its censorship when a government entity chooses what you can or cannot view, say, or read.
- einhverfr 13y agoPlease, so that we can test such an assertion: 1. Define human rights 2. Provide a methodology by which they can be objectively known. Is a right to be left alone to one's culture a human right? Is a right not to be deprived by outside powers of one's native language a human right? And who gets to set the limits on the outer limits of such a right? (i.e. is the right to advocate the position that genocide of, say, black folk, is desirable a human right? What about pornography?). My own sense is that usually these have no epistemology behind them and are based solely on projecting one's a priori assumptions onto the world.
- Renaud 13y agoReally? Scott Adams' mild political satire is understandably censored because it is comparable in offensiveness to porn?! By the way, Google doesn't censor porn. They categorises it. If they were either dropping all porn or replacing all porn images by pictures of little ponies, that would be censorship.
- edoloughlin 13y agoI don't think equating porn and gay rights is very helpful.
- theknown99 13y agoBoth are offensive to some section of the population...
- itchitawa 13y agoIt helps to highlight our cultural biases. In some cultures pornography is more acceptable than homosexuality. These are just different prejudices that different people hold. It's not obvious which is more right or wrong.
- edoloughlin 13y agoOne is a choice and the other is not. It's obvious to me which prejudice is wrong.