On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Google has agreed to take down links to a website that promotes racist > views of indigenous Australians. > > Aboriginal man Steve Hodder-Watt recently discovered the US-based site by > searching "Aboriginal and Encyclopedia" in the search engine. > > He tried to modify the entry on Encyclopedia Dramatica, a satirical and > extremely racist version of Wikipedia, but was blocked from doing so. > ... > > Mr Newhouse said Google agreed to take the link down after he filed an > official complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission. > > "Lo and behold they agreed last night to take down the sites." > > > http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-agrees-to-take-down-racist-site-20100115-maxd.html > > I'm so torn. On the one hand, the hypocrisy is blinding - filtering > its search results is exactly what Google was doing in China. On the > other hand, it's Encyclopedia Dramatica... > If censoring some things (like "the most offensive sorts of racial vilification you could possibly find"), and refusing to censor other things (like an historical account of a pro-democracy demonstration), is hypocrisy, then let me be the first to say that I'm in favor of hypocrisy. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
