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This thread?

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/14q6ir/censorship_as_of...

Still up and with about 1500 comments.

Some posters there suggest that more explicit search terms will still bring up explicit material. I'm at work so I'm not going to test that right now. I'll leave the final word to someone smarter than me but it appears this may be more of an attempt to prevent people from stumbling onto porn accidentally than outright censorship.

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That thread is one of them, yes. As I mentioned, it does still exist, it wasn't deleted. It can be linked from comments in other stories. But it was removed from the global front page, and from the r/wtf and r/technology listings, and from their internal search results (which I believe is standard for removing stories, which is not uncommon in general).

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The canonical test terms seem to be "blowjob" and "anal sex", though it will be interesting to see what else emerges as effected.

After work, you can test for yourself [NSFW]:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=blowjob&tbm=isch

https://www.google.com/search?q=blowjob&tbm=isch

Make sure to turn "Safe Search: Off" for .ca -- you will notice there in no longer any such option for .com

Tvs option still exists. The "safe search" option will have a check mark beside it if on. The problem is that if you turn it off... If you explicitly ask Google to not filter your searches on the basis of explicitly sexual content, and then search for "blowjob", it thinks you want funny pictures in the "thick bordered meme" template.

So, you have the option, Google just doesn't care so much if you exercise it.

Tvs option?

Sorry, "The". Swype kills me sometimes and I never notice.

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