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Following In Bing's Footsteps, Yahoo! and Flickr Censor Porn In India
bhagwad writes "Following recent news on how Bing decided sex was too sensitive for India, Yahoo! and its associated site Flickr have decided to do the same. While it's true that this is because of India passing laws that prohibit the publication of porn, no complaint was ever launched (and never will be), and glorious Google still continues to return accurate and unbiased results. So why is Yahoo! doing this? Is it because of its tie-up with Bing? I assume this is the case. Indian ISPs have already told the government and the courts that it's not their job to restrict porn and it's technologically infeasible too. In the absence of a complaint, I can only assume that Yahoo! has decided to do this of their own volition. Given that the 'sex' search term is searched more in India than in any other country, isn't it the duty of Yahoo! to provide accurate results to its customers? It can always plausibly deny control of its results and claim that filtering porn is infeasible. Since Yahoo! already has a low search market share in India, this will drive it even lower."
You're closer to the truth than you realize. The same thing is going on in America as well - the limiting of abortion coverage in our healthcare bill, our pop-culture's fairly recent obsession with babies and breeding, antagonism towards Planned Parenthood.
Corporations want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to have a huge foreign pool of cheap labor, and they want to have a huge domestic pool of proletariat consumers and disposable warriors.