Suicide of the West Alert: It has been ten days since I first posted about how Google is censoring negative search suggestions on Islam, and four days since Google said that this was not dhimmi self-censorship, but a "bug," and would soon be corrected.
For some reason, the mighty search engine can't seem to fix this "bug." Try it for yourself. Search for "Christianity is" at Google and a host of negative recommendations pop up:
It's the same thing for "Buddhism is," "Hinduism is," etc. But when you search for "Islam is," no negative recommendations come up -- indeed, no recommendations at all:
The same "bug" appears at Google's YouTube.
Google couldn't have fixed this by now? This dhimmi self-censorship just happens to coincide with the Islamic bloc's anti-free speech agenda. I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
Well let's switch to Yahoo. That still has the predictive suggestions for Islam is...
Nothing like a mega-billion-dollar global corporation with excellent innovative workforce who revolutionized information technology and wowed the world, now stooping down a 100 notches by enforcing a self imposed dhmmitude and a self imposed gag order when it comes to freedom for UNBIASED SEARCH for information.
The decision makers are nothing more than super rich intelligent gen X Islamic slaves of our times.
I have lost respect for Google.
I have stopped using Google till they fix the Islamic search "bug"!
There may be hope yet. Mr. Obama has gone out of his way in recent days, describing the American people as being compassionate, caring, generous to a fault, willing to help when & where needed, giving to the needy even when facing hard times themselves, ...
Why, this is an about face from when he told the world that America was not a Christian nation.
Pastors & politicians are beginning to organize public protests against a CAIR convention in Texas, garish mosques overshadowing communities in Florida, plus innumerable cries of protest springing up; some even by muslims!
Good work, Google! And keep that spotlight shing on the fact that despicable organizations such as your own make feeble attempts to cast Christianity & other peaceful religions below the whaleshit of Islam...
This morning on my google, I put Christianity in and it appeared to have changed. None of which the above by Robert shows, thankfully.
Do you work for Google? I tried that one minute ago, and I see exactly what is in this report. "Islam is" is filtered out. My guess is you may have misspelt "Christianity". Try again.
I agree. I just put in "Christianity is" and up came things like "Christianity is bullshit," "Christianity is a lie," "Christianity is a cult," etc. But when I put in "Islam is" nothing negative comes up. Yep, seems as though "Google is a dhimmi" is about right.
Since this has happened I have taken google off my browser toolbar.
It is ironic that google whines about censorship and restrictions on free speech in China, yet has systemic censorship and restrictions within its own products.
It seems that google considers that the one who should have the power to censor should only be itself, not others.
Their day is passing.
Google's mantra, by the way, is "Do no evil" -- and as with Islam's various ostensible morals, it all depends on the tendentious definition of the term. Apparently, "evil" to Google is defined as including the sin of offending Muslims. This, of course, is hardly remarkable or uncommon -- in fact, it is the reigning sentiment throughout the entire West by most Westerners, Elites and Ordinaries alike. That said, the particular way in which Google here has found to concretize that part of the definition is remarkable.
This is as good a place as any to share this slightly off-topic anecdote about our Western pop culture and its bass-ackwards priorities. It involves a scene in the British crime drama Blood in the Wire, starring Robson Green and Simone Lahbib (she's an actress born in Scotland of a Scottish mother and an Algerian Muslim father!). The scene in question appears in episode 3 of season 6, the last season of the show (approximately 2007).
The psychologist who helps the police profile criminals, played by Robson Green, is involved with a subplot where a mass-murdering cannibal locked up in prison claims to have found Jesus. Green is skeptical, but all the prison officials, including the Catholic chaplain, believe the prisoner has changed his ways. As part of his effort to try to understand the prisoner, Green on his own time purchases a Bible (he's a completely unreligious agnostic scientist) and tries to read it.
In the scene in question, we see Green in his apartment reading some particularly tedious and abstruse passage from the Old Testament filled with unpronounceable names of various kings and peoples and he is getting visibly annoyed as he reads aloud, his voice rising in irritation. At that instant, his phone rings and in exasperation he blurts out: "JESUS! Saved by the bell!" He answers the phone. It's his boss, the police lieutenant played by Simone Lahbib. She tells him: "Drop what you're doing." Green tosses the Bible to the floor like it's so much garbage and says, "With pleasure."
Imagine a scene like this in a TV show in any Muslim country, involving not Jesus and the Bible, but Mohammed and the Koran. The show would be canceled, the writers, producers, directors, actors would be fired, some of them likely imprisoned, and certainly all under death threats. Riots would ensue. People would get killed.
What happened here in a "Christian" country, when these blasphemous scenes about Jesus and the Bible? Nary a peep. An old Christian biddy or two may have politely sent the BBC a letter or email. That's it.
Boot Lickers! :)
Now give them a chance, clearly this is a very complex computer programming bug which could take years of top programmers working day and night in teams to figure out what is happening and get it fixed as we all know they want done as soon as humanly possible.
"Do no evil" - perhaps they spell it differently, more like "Do know evil". Whether they know Islam is evil and would bring terror upon them if they did not edit their search results to favor Islam or if they know Islam and like it, either way, it is evil that they are allowing themselves and what should be a rigorously scientific and unbiased search tool to be manipulated and politicized.
Hesperado--INteresting comment on British Pop Culture. Even as a Christian I sometimes got impatient with the "unpronounceable" Hebrew names, until a preacher pointed out that they show that God is interested in individual people!
Still, the late Saul Bellow once noted that the West seems a little too eager to see the last of its Christianity.
Hesperado -
This doesn't surprise me one bit. People are as ignorant about what the Bible teaches as they are about what the Koran teaches. In a nutshell, the OT was written to the Jews, specifying certain laws for a certain time period, for a certain purpose. It's also ancient history, so of course there are going to be odd names and places and such. There's more to it than that, but that's a brief overview of the general idea.
And yet not only do people constantly repeat wrong information about both, but they compare the two using that same wrong information. It makes my head hurt when I see it!
Ignorance is one thing. That, I can deal with. I am ignorant of many things. But WILLFUL ignorance - where you are given correct information and yet choose to dismiss or ignore it - THAT'S what I feel there is no excuse for. Especially in free countries where we have access to every resource under the sun to educate ourselves.
It drives me nuts.
Thanks for doing this Robert, the wife didn't believe me until I demostrated it last weekend.
Jews are" get the same treatment, but they didn't learn to filter out Judaism is"
Bunch of wankers are to busy making a fuss over dealing with China.