Google Suppresses on behalf of US

**Watchman** · 02-27-2006, 16:24

I guess one has to give them a few brownie points for being equal opportunity brown-nosers.

...actually, I was suddenly reminded of something Hobsbawm drily observed in Age of Extremes. Something about "big business" being able and willing to adapt to and cooperate with any regime, as any regime will find it necessary to adapt to and cooperate with it or something along those lines... 'Course, he put it rather more elegantly but I'm working from vague memory here.

**Xiahou** · 02-27-2006, 17:14

That article smells like BS too me.

The US media's reluctance to relay the human cost of the war has been fiercely criticized. But Google's willingness to censor innocuous video footage for domestic audiences suggests that rather than being a challenge to the media hierarchy that so many utopians wish it to be, Google falls into line as readily as any three-man cable affiliate.

If you search for "IED Iraq" in Google video, you get several hits that actually show clips of IED explosions. Im not sure if the one the author is whining about actually shows up or not, but it'd be pretty lousy censorship to censor one safe IED detonation and leave several others.

More than likely, it was some kind of technical glitch and the author is just having a knee-jerk over reaction.... This guy is bordering on tinfoil hat conspiracy stuff anyhow, as evidenced by this paranoid sounding paragraph.

Last spring, Google chose to hire one of the most prominent public relations faces of the Iraq invasion, plucking Dan Senor (pictured left) from the desert dust where he was massaging the press on behalf of his then boss, Paul Bremer. Some might consider Dan's CV - a career in the Carlyle Group, flacking for a hardcore Israeli lobby group, and jogging credentials with the Bush-Cheney campaign a little salty. But not Google, who around the same time, also hoisted former ICANN flack and Berkman "fellow" Andrew McLaughlin into a job.

Hardly sounds like unbiased journalism.

**Duke of Gloucester** · 02-27-2006, 19:54

Need to read the whole article in its most recent version:

"Alas it's not Google that's doing the censoring - and a big red-faced Oops from The Reg. Google explained last week that uploaders had made the decision not to make the clip available to US internet users."

**BigTex** · 02-27-2006, 20:03

Google suppresses bland Iraq footage on behalf of the US

First China, then the US....

What is going on with this?

Come on throwing a fit about not seeing all of the pyrotechnics involved in disposing of a roadside bomb. Seriously if you scream censorship over that then I think you need to have some more fun during the 4th of July, they look pretier anyways. And what kind of person has a need to watch a poor soldier be turned to red dust over the internet anyways.

**Xiahou** · 02-28-2006, 01:17

Originally Posted by Duke of Gloucester

Need to read the whole article in its most recent version:

"Alas it's not Google that's doing the censoring - and a big red-faced Oops from The Reg. Google explained last week that uploaders had made the decision not to make the clip available to US internet users."

Hey, looks like I nailed it!

**Redleg** · 02-28-2006, 01:33

Originally Posted by Xiahou

Hey, looks like I nailed it!

Naw I called it first. Stupidity is what was going on.

**Just A Girl** · 02-28-2006, 02:25

Are they censoring clips like that vidoe I saw of american troops...
Shooting Wildly yelling WHOO! Whoot . whilst they blow up buildings and shoot anything that was in sight.

Followed by the same yank soldiers geting scared to death and almost crying. when a few mortas go off next to them,

the whoop's and whoo's instantly stoped.
and it was no longer Fun it seems.

that made me laugh.

It was fine when they were blowing things up.
1 poxy explosion near them and they turned in to little girls who want to go home lol.

I will try to find the clip and add it to the backroom video thread some time.

I think i have it on one of these pc's some where.

If thats what they are censoring.
i know why cos the american public would not be impressed lol.

**Strike For The South** · 02-28-2006, 02:26

Originally Posted by Just A Girl

Is this like that vidoe I saw of american troops.
Shooting Wildly yelling WHOO! Whoot . whilst they blow up buildings and shoot anything that was in sight.

Followed by the same yank soldiers geting scared to death and almost crying. when a few mortas go off next to them,
the whoop's and whoo's instantly stoped.
and it was no longer Fun it seems.

that made me laugh.
It was fine when they were blowing things up.
1 poxy explosion neat them and they turned in to little girls lol.

I will try to find the clip and add it to the backrrom video thread some time.

I think i have it on one of these pc's some where.

What? This is completly OT baby. You do this to screw me up dont you..DONT YOU!~!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111111111111111111