June 30, 2006
Google is showing signs of more resistance in complying with regulators even as rival providers are complying more with the federal government’s guidelines.
While Yahoo! searches for “pre-teen” and “sex” and “video” only showed up news articles from television networks, the same search on Google resulted in pre-teen sex videos, pictures and a teen sex sponsored link.
Google Associate General Counsel Nicole Wong, stressed the company’s commitment to protect children from becoming victims of child pornography. She asserted the difficulty of keeping child pornography off their search engine, which is triple the size of its competition and dominates the market.
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If Google can filter content to China, eliminating links to sites mentioning ‘freedom’ or ‘democracy’, and report dissidents to the chinese government, I can’t believe that they cannot filter illicit prurient material. Shame on them.
Comment by St. Jimbob of the Apokalypse — July 1, 2006 @ 7:41 am