What I always find most disturbing about Internet censorship issues is how the Internet business community, the folks whom this hurts financially more than anyone else, won't talk about it. In fact, if you talk about it, they won't talk to you. They will literally commit financial suicide before challenging their slave masters.
Google needs to be watched with great scrutiny. It is the mothership of the web. Google can seriously screw us over big time, if they want to. And signs show that they are increasingly willing to. -- KM
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Google has becoming increasingly compliant to government requests to block purportedly sensitive information -- including images of Tibet, military installations and even a General Electric research plant -- according to a new report prepared by the Open Source Center for the Bush Administration's Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and reports circulated online about areas Google has blocked or blurred.
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