Google takes first step towards removing "racist" sites from

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Google takes first step towards removing "racist" sites from its search engine

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/techno ... -maxd.html

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 Hodder-Watt then undertook legal action, that resulted in Google acknowledging its legal responsibility to remove the offensive site.

His lawyer, George Newhouse, said the site was "one of the most offensive sorts of racial vilification you could possibly find".

"It portrays indigenous Australians in the most unsavoury light possible, and you wouldn't want a child stumbling across it," he told ABC Radio.

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."

Mr Newhouse believes the site would be filtered under the Federal Government's mandatory filter.

"Sites that promote racial vilification would actually fall within that description [illegal sites] and therefore would be filtered."

The Federal Government plans to introduce legislation this year requiring all service providers to ban "refused classification" material.

Anonymous

I don't know if the Jewish lawyer George Newhouse who was quoted in the article really cares about the vilification of Aborigines, maybe he does. :roll:  But my view is that he's probably an NAACP type Jew who's working to take away all peoples' freedom by claiming to be a liberal who cares about the plight of minorities and joining with minority or human rights groups.

An interesting article about Mr. Newhouse: http://ausfirst.alphalink.com.au/fraser/fraser3.html

As a Black person, I would rather have: freedom of speech with 'vilification' and 'politically incorrect' material...
...as supposed to censorship with no freedom to say what you want.

Another point: If Google starts censoring the TiUs and iamthewitness.coms, why should we even be mad or complain? I mean, Google is my default home page! Right now I'm sat staring into the pixels of my Dell(Jew) monitor!

We're on their grid!!!

We are so dependent on them for everything right now. Big question: How do why change this?

Travis

Well lets see if those bastards take down that viper pit called the Jewish task force. Oh wait a minute they are allowed to promote violence and racism - the law for Jews are different from non-Jews.