Google’s Offensive Blog Warning
Click this link to a Blogspot blog. Before you're allowed to view the blog (on your fist visit to it) you run into this message from Google (which runs Blogspot):
I've been familiar with Blogspot for some time. The earliest version of Say Anything was hosted on the service and many of the blogs I read to this day are still hosted there. This is the first time I've ever seen such a message.
Why did this particular Blogspot blog warrant the message? Apparently because it is host to some fairly provocative editorial cartoons aimed at Islam, terrorists and liberal Democrats. I find that a bit troublesome. Certainly Google, as a privately owned company, has the right to dictate what sort of content they will allow on their server. But still, why start this now?
My guess is that they're bowing to pressure from Muslims angry about speech and expression they do not like. Which is really sort of sad, and more than a little inconsistent given that Google has no such warnings prefacing either of the two Blogspot sites dedicated to writings of the child-raping murderer Joseph Duncan.
(via Gates of Vienna and Pajamas Media)
I've been familiar with Blogspot for some time. The earliest version of Say Anything was hosted on the service and many of the blogs I read to this day are still hosted there. This is the first time I've ever seen such a message.
Why did this particular Blogspot blog warrant the message? Apparently because it is host to some fairly provocative editorial cartoons aimed at Islam, terrorists and liberal Democrats. I find that a bit troublesome. Certainly Google, as a privately owned company, has the right to dictate what sort of content they will allow on their server. But still, why start this now?
My guess is that they're bowing to pressure from Muslims angry about speech and expression they do not like. Which is really sort of sad, and more than a little inconsistent given that Google has no such warnings prefacing either of the two Blogspot sites dedicated to writings of the child-raping murderer Joseph Duncan.
(via Gates of Vienna and Pajamas Media)
