The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film

ideonexus writes "While the decision has been a footnote in most news stories, the Washington Post is raising the question of what it means that Google can shut down access to the anti-Islam film in countries where that film has sparked riots, something the American government cannot do thanks to our First Amendment. A popular meme in the Information Age is that the Internet spreads democracy by enabling citizens to organize and speak out, but we forget that much of that speech is now hosted by third parties who are under no obligation to protect it."

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Re:have you seen it?

[terjeber]

'cause atheists have brains, brains able to produce stuff better than this. It is obvious this was produced by someone suffering from some superstition or another. Christianity would be the prime suspected superstition.

well, fuck you

[Anonymous Coward]

Excuse the language but my sincerest fuck you, being a muslim i find this highly offensive. I know all about freedom of speech and how this is one bad apple, nonetheless too many idiots are seeing this as another freedom of speech thing. I don't stand for violence and loss of life, idiots in middle east are just that. So are idiots in america viewing this as a freedom of speech issue. Let's all be insensitive about each others culture, I'm sure we will have a better society.

Next time I will make sure I scream Allah hoakbar at ground zero and support the mosque being built there. What the hell, might as well stick a banner saying "victory" over the mosque.