Google Eradicates Pornography Its Own Way
Stephanie Sonntag writes for UPI:
Google is showing signs of more resistance in complying with regulators even as rival providers are complying more with the federal government's guidelines.More here.
At a House hearing this week, members of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations called upon Internet providers to help eradicate pornography from their sites and keep records of their clients' high-speed Internet connection for law-enforcement purposes.
But while Yahoo! searches for "pre-teen" and "sex" and "video" only showed up news articles from television networks, the same search on Google resulted in pre-teen sex videos, pictures and a teen sex sponsored link, much to the chagrin of lawmakers.
"There is an appearance that Google isn't as cooperative or vigilant on these issues," said Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss.
posted by Fergie @ 6/28/2006 01:56:00 PM
1 Comments:
I'm sorry, but what exactly do you expect google to do? Their job is to index the world's information - not filter out whatever nonsense the government finds offensive this week.
If you actually google "preteen sex video" on google, (yes, I did it) you'll find not actual link to preteen sex, but links to sites which tags their pages with the words "preteen" "sex" and "video." Their is a HUGE difference quite often between how people tag their content and what that content actually shows, particularly in the porn world.
Google is doing the right thing by refusing to "comply" (a damn Orwellian word if you ask me) and cooperate with this more or less pernicious request, IMHO. The notion that you can eradicate pornography by eliminating its return in search engines sounds like precisely the sort of logic that says that if you hide the cookie jar children will stop eating cookies. Obviously, it's not that simple...
Post a Comment
<< Home