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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Don't be evil

Yes. That's the ticket. Don't be evil....and don't use googlag / yahoo!

Journalist Who Exposes U.N. Corruption Disappears From Google.
Since 2005, Matthew Lee, editor-in-chief, Webmaster and pretty much the only reporter for Inner City Press, has been focusing almost entirely on stories that deal with internal corruption inside the U.N., posting several stories online almost daily. Many of Lee's stories were featured prominently whenever Web users looked for news about the U.N. using the powerful Google News search engine, a vital way for media outlets both large and small to get their articles read.
But beginning Feb. 13, Google News users could no longer find new stories from the Inner City Press. It began with an innocuous-sounding yet chilling form letter from Google to Lee, e-mailed on Feb. 8:
"We periodically review news sources, particularly following user complaints, to ensure Google News offers a high quality experience for our users," it said. "When we reviewed your site we've found that we can no longer include it in Google News."
Tuyet Nguyen, president of the U.N. Correspondents Association, said he was fully behind Lee.
"The sad story about Google is that they're shutting people up and not doing a good thing for society by only defending their business interests," he said. "They have a responsibility to society in letting people speak out. And I'm not surprised that those U.N. agencies are trying to hide."
Not really. Googlag/yahoo has never met a brutal dictator or totalitarian regime it wasn't prepared to cooperate with for torture and imprisonment to expand its insidiously malignant global scrubber information conglomerate. But don't be evil...and don't use googlag / yahoo!

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