Is Google Purging Conservative News Sites?

omething frighteningly ominous has been happening on the Internet lately: Google, without any prior explanation or notice, has been terminating its News relationship with conservative e-zines and web journals.

At first blush, one can easily ignore such business decisions by the most powerful company on the Internet as being routine. However, on closer examination, such behavior could give one relatively small technological corporation (when ... Full Story »

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by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008

Controversial report on alleged censorship by Google News. The author has methodically collected detailed evidence from conservative sources to support his case, and yet makes no attempt to get Google to respond, or to present other viewpoints. There is no attempt either to inquire if left-wing publications have also been affected by Google's new policy The use of derogative language to describe Google's presumed intentions is uncalled for at this stage, turning what could have been a useful news analysis into a thinly-disguised polemic opinion piece. Maybe what Google is reacting to is the hateful mindset that is encouraged by this type of belligerent journalism.

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