Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Google Censorship

Censoring critics of the UN:
Journalist Who Exposes U.N. Corruption Disappears From Google

How big do you have to be to earn the wrath of the United Nations and Internet giant Google?

If you're journalist Matthew Lee, all it takes are some critical articles and a scrappy little Web site.

Lee is the editor-in-chief, Webmaster and pretty much the only reporter for Inner City Press, a pint-sized Internet news operation that's taken on Goliath-sized entities like Citigroup since 1987.

Click here to view the Inner City Press Web site.

Since 2005, he's been focusing almost entirely on stories that deal with internal corruption inside the U.N., posting several stores online almost daily.
Censoring critics of China:
Google faces lawsuit for blocking name

A Chinese scholar who challenged the Communist government by setting up a democratic opposition party has vowed to sue the US internet company Google for excising his name from its local search results.

Guo Quan’s condemnation of Google comes amid a renewed drive by Chinese authorities to clamp down on dissent ahead of the Beijing Olympics that includes the arrest of Hu Jia, one of China’s best-known human rights activists.
Critics of Israel--and the US--needn't worry.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

there's no link to the site?

Daled Amos said...

I assume you meant the Inner City Press site. I forgot about it and just put it back in.

Thanks for pointing it out.

DA