Google News, Censorship or Responsible Journalism?

MSTCrow5429 writes to mention an article published by WorldNetDaily attacking the policies and actions of Google News. The author takes issue with the practice of removing sites that offer very frank discussions about radical Islam and terrorism as "hate speech." Several sites have complained about removal including The Jawa Report, MichNews, and most recently The New Media Journal. In the termination email to The New Media Journal Google cited several stories as objectionable in order to further explain the action.

Comments

Re:What do you expect?

[WhiplashII]

well-paid people tend to be more liberal than conservative

I find that a better way to a priori determine liberal/conservative bias is this:

Living on someone else's money - liberal.

Living on your own money - conservative.

It works in so many ways - young people are strongly biased towards liberal: they live with their parents. PHDs are strongly biased towards liberal: they have tenure. Rich people from old money are strongly biased towards liberal: they do not work for their money. Actors, singers, etc: they do not work for their money, they get paid to play.

Middle aged people are biased towards conservative: they have to earn their way. Rich people that earned the money themselves: the had to earn their way.

Look at the statistics - it really does align very well.

Re:So why allow hate sites to stay?

[harshmanrob]

This is a good question. Why are hate sites like Fox News, Worldnetdaily, Newsmax.com, and dennisprager.com (a jew who hates his fellow jews) allowed to be on the internet?

citations for Hizb ut-Tahrir?

[vague_ascetic]

"Hizb ut-Tahrir (which is so radical that is has been banned in many countries, including Britain and Germany)"

Please cite for me one, and I repeat for emphasis, just one act of terrorism that has been attributed to Hizb ut-Tahrir, but one stipulation first: any claims made by former Bush ally, Islam 'butcher of Andijon' Karimov, or his kleptocratic regime, Uzbekistan, doesn't count.

Even The Nixon Center's Cent.Asia wonk, Zeyno Baran, who I consider to be one of the most knowledgeable tankers regarding them, admits they aren't violent, even though he offers many valid cautions:

Zeyno Baran, Hizb ut-Tahrir: Islam's Political Insurgency, The Nixon Center, December 2004

I am always interested in data about Hizb ut-Tahrir, please give up citations to the literature which led you to believe that Hizb ut-Tahrir is dangerously radical.

(i cited a Nixon realist to counter trotskyite dialectic from neoconservatives. i am going out of my mind...)

Re:Good on you google!

[ncc74656]

Liberal == grown-up == intelligent == understands nuance

If you had any familiarity with the fever swamps of the Left, you would've known better than to make that asinine assertion.