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Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images [updated]

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the smell-the-scent-of-karl-rove dept.

Mihg writes "Try searching Google Images for abu ghraib, lynndie england, or Lynndie's boyfriend charles graner and note how you don't get any pictures of US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners of war. Now try it with some of their competitors, like AltaVista, Lycos, or Yahoo!. Google used to be able to find them, as is discussed in this AnandTech forum thread." I'm guessing that this is another case of our administration confusing "National Security" with "Politically Undesirable". Update: 11/07 20:18 GMT by P : Google has a reasonable explanation.

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  1. Great censoring by hotdot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow, now the united states are getting more like china ...

  2. Re:Google's just trying to keep perspective by vjzuylen · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Did it ever occur to you that this goes beyond the US or its penal system? Non-US Google users couldn't care less about the racist sexual sadism in US prisons, so why would Google be "trying to keep things in perspective" for them as well?

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  3. Re:Tried it and it's true. by raju1kabir · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    If you don't want a search engine to decide what you have access to, you have all the freedom on the Internet to conduct your search elsewhere. Just because Google is one of the most popular search engines doesn't mean you have to use it, and it doesn't mean Google has to provide free access to information.

    No shit. But the point of this whole discussion, if it proves to be true (and not just an artifact of some equal-opportunity problem at Google) is to give people a heads-up that Google is not the place to conduct a politically-unfiltered search. That's pretty big news, and enough to stop me from using them.

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  4. Re:Google just sucks by Alsee · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What part of "Google used to be able to find them" don't you understand?

    The part where you personally attacked him.

    Our beloved leader is trying to protect us. We must all stand in unity and support to defend ourselves. An attack on Bush weakens and endangers us all. It is a personal attack on each and every one of us.

    So naturally his reaction was to counter attack the claim, in self defence.

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    See sig for my personal oppinion.

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  5. Does this mean that we can expect an apology by artemis67 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    from Cmdr Taco for accusing the Bush administration of performing a cover-up?

  6. Re:Official Respons from Google. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Google, stInc, has a larger market cap than General Motors but doesnt produce nearly as much.

    You guys sit there furrowing your brow with your arms dug into your thrones of intellect giving out GLAT tests to people. But you CENSOR people who try to sell guns and ammunition from advertising placements. Sergey is a Russian Communist who believes that Americans should be DISARMED and you pulled wool over Wall St. with that IPO like the Bolsheviks pulled wool over the Russian public.