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> Does Google engage in public campaign agains antisemitism

Well, regarding some of the search results for "Jew", they did put up this explanation: http://www.google.com/explanation.html

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That's not a campaign though. It's just an explanation why some search results are displaying offensive things - which is completely alright, but not what I was talking about, not even close.

"Google has shown great responsiveness to this issue and a willingness to consider changes to better identify extremist Web sites, so that users can still have the benefit of Google's unique search technology while being alerted when they are about to enter into a hate zone."

Still a big deal to mark results as offensive and hate speech.

Indeed. That moves them from merely allowing people to search for messages to forming the message and framing other peoples messages.

This also makes me uncomfortable.

When so much of the information that so many people get from the internet is through gatekeepers like Google and Facebook, I think any distortion to this is deeply dangerous and hard to separate from the sorts of distortions the Egyptian state-owned media engaged in when covering the Tahrir Square protests.....

Is it OK for me to be irked that they reserved the /explanation URL only for the Judaism thing, apparently precluding it from being used in similar warning in the future?

Seriously, does everyone have to be irked about everything these days? It's a URL.

I'm sure if they get a bunch of emails from gay people saying that searching for "gay hookups in San Francisco" brings up insulting images of Rainbow Stalin they'd put an explanation right up their next to their Judaism remarks.

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