Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 06 November 2004
"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 guesing that this is another case of our administration confusing "National Security" with "Politically Undesirable".
I remember that you could find the pictures in question, because I searched them a bit after that story went public. I haven't since, and now you cannot find any. What a sleazy move: introduce "good" censoring to stop racism and when people get used to it extend it to try to kill unliked things. I would love to see Google's list of censored links. It's growing really fast. Google slowly becomes a search engine for spam and everyday crap, but for serious and unbiased and uncensored information, people will move to competitors.