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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. Get real... by Baldrson · · Score: 1, Troll

    Do you really think the events at Abu Ghraib would have occurred if US governments hadn't become addicted to racist sexual sadism as a means of extorting compliance out of US citizens?

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  2. Re:Official Respons from Google. by Monf · · Score: 1, Troll
    ....uuuuh, yeah, right, sure...

    so... if that's the case, i guess google's technologies and hardware aren't all they are touted as, and I guess all us INVESTORS should AVOID INVESTING in GOOGLE, since they are much, much, much, MUCH, MUCH SLOWER at indexing content that pretty much EVERY OTHER search engine has NO PROBLEM indexing quickly...

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