Google Be Evil?

A disturbing trend that has a lot to scare any free-information needing democracy..but is Google censoring speech it doesn’t agree with? Their motto is “don’t be evil“..explained as “culture prohibited conflicts of interest, and required objectivity and an absence of bias.”

The whole point of “don’t be evil” would be to allow free information to be found, regardless of the view of the gatekeeper..no censorship. We know that Google’s CEO campaigned for Obama and I’m a little surprised being in the unbiased information industry he’d even tell people who he supported. Update…Google wants more power?

The latest eye-brow raising case of google censorship is in their auto-results. If you begin to search, you’ve seen it recommend commonly searched phrases. Type in “Christianity is” and before you’re done you have a list of hot discussions on the topic (and ironically all negative)…or type in anything other terms to get the same. Well…just about any other terms.

Type in “Islam is” and get the below recommendations…err..no results? I did this myself and it happens just as this shows. Hmm…

A Google spokesman explained that the weird absence of results is just a software problem: “This is in fact a bug and we’re working to fix it as quickly as we can.” But the company would not respond to requests for clarification.

There are only two things that bring down a free people …. lack of responsibility and lack of free information. This is why the first amendment dealt with freedom of speech rather than hundreds of other things it could’ve.

It appears pretty likely this suppression of negative Islam searches, and in many other cases, that Google does have an agenda. Their search engine is fast, effective, and used by most people in the world. But if you have a conscience about such things, it may be time to take another look at Bing. This is the same Google that has all your emails, your history of everywhere you looked up on Google Maps, your GPS location, all your searches, and countless other pieces of information from their other software.

They say they won’t be evil with all that information on you. But who is watching the gatekeepers?