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Wednesday, March 30, 20051112197200
Google Censors Jawa
"Google News Drops 'The Jawa Report' for 'Hate Speech' Violation," by Rusty Shackleford, Jawa Report, 29 March 2005, http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/073310.php (from Michelle Malkin).
I've been hearing complaints about liberal bias at Google for a while, but I dismissed them until now.
I received the following e-mail moments ago from Google News.
Hi Rusty,
Upon recent review, we've found that your site contains hate speech, and we will no longer be including it in Google News. If you can guarantee that your news no longer includes hate speech, we will be happy to re-review the site for inclusion.
Regards,
The Google Team
Needless to say, I am pretty damned ticked.
I challenge Google News to find one instance of 'hate speech' on this site that is not either a case of sarcasm, humor, or a direct quote used in the context of a post that attempts to do just the opposite.
All the facts aren't in yet, and of course Google can carry what sites they wish. Google and Google News are great services that I use many, many times a day. But this is disturbing. Cries of "hate speech" are commonly used to silence conservatives on college campus, and now in the blogosphere too. Let's hope there is an innocent explanation!
09:40 Posted by Dan tdaxp in Blogosphere | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this | Tags: google, jawa