Sunday, October 5, 2008

Google & 18Brumaire...censorship?

Anyone wishing to read the blog 18Brumaire.blogspot.com will find a warning that it has 'content suitable for adults'. If you google 18brumaire, you will find 4 entries, and not the most current. However, you go scroll down to the bottom of the page, you can click on the blue line which will bring you to about 18 pages of blog entries, but not all entires; go to page 16; there you will find the 'objectionable' blogs fit for adult eyes only. And lo and behold, you will find such everyday topics about the current US presidential campaign, the less than sterling practices of US secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson & co, so on and on. So how does this infringe on Google's code of good conduct? Beats us! even though Google distances itself from the views on 18Brumaire. Well, you can say this works two ways, since it human nature to taste of forbidden fruit, the casual reader will look for the taboo subject. Or it's Google's way of protecting itself from the angry army of the righteous who will object to anything under the sun! 18Brumaire is honoured to uphold the sanctity of the first amendment, and believes in free speech, and all that good stuff!

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