Comments on: Don’t be Google

By: David_Seaton

David_Seaton — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:49:22 +0000

My personal experience with the subject of this thread, was to have the following video, which I put together at the height of the Gaza massacre, pulled from YouTube with a stern warning about being under six months probation with the possibility of having my IP banned forever.... within a half hour of uploading the video. Here is the link to the video itself: " target="_blank">http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc105/seatonsn... Harmless it isn't, but there is a lot rougher stuff on youtube that doesn't touch Israel and stands without problems. My conclusion is that Google is biased, very biased, unselfconsciously biased.

By: San Fernando Curt

San Fernando Curt — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:19:41 +0000

In the old days, journalists would dig out this story – develop sources at Google and backtrack the decision to its sources. Everyone assumes Google was pressured by the "nonexistent" Israeli Lobby; that's probably what an investigation would reveal. As a public entity, political pressure can be brought on Google, even in an informal way, and the Lobby's bread and butter is doing just that. But since our media is in the hands of about a half-dozen companies like Disney, Viacom, Time-Warner, etc. – all of them cooperative to the point of obsequiousness to the Lobby – it's doubtful this will happen. As time goes on, the more it will stink in here.

By: US Objector

US Objector — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:27:11 +0000

Time for Phil and Adam to sign up with Microsoft Ads instead. Everyone should click the ads like crazy.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:31:17 +0000

youtube show Neda: " target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrdRwOlmIxI but they wouldn't show a few americans bad-mouthing obama.. why?

By: Mooser

Mooser — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:27:19 +0000

You-tube does have, to its credit, a fantastic selection of Hammond organ videos, both Jazz and Gospel. They are very helpful.

By: dalybean

dalybean — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:10:47 +0000

I made the comment because an article of a particularly incendiary nature showed up in blogs but not news. But I can't remember what the article was and this article, for example, does in fact show up in news not blogs.

By: hasbarablaster

hasbarablaster — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:02:10 +0000

" target="_blank">http://rawstory.com/news/2008/CIA_creates_miniGoo... Google partners with NSA, CIA on intelligence database Eric Mayes Published: Monday March 31, 2008

By: hasbarablaster

hasbarablaster — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:00:42 +0000

" target="_blank">http://www.google-watch.org/jobad.html Google acquires CIA-linked company October, 2004 Google has acquired Keyhole, Inc., which has a database of 3-D spy-in-the-sky images from all over the globe. Their software provides a virtual fly-over and zoom-in with one-foot resolution. Keyhole is supported by In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm funded by the CIA, in an effort to "identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge information technologies that serve United States national security interests." In 2003, Keyhole's CEO John Hanke was quoted in an In-Q-Tel press release: "Keyhole's strategic relationship with In-Q-Tel means that the Intelligence Community can now benefit from the massive scalability and high performance of the Keyhole enterprise solution." The spooks in Washington now had another hook into Google, Inc. Then in mid-2005, Rob Painter joined Google as Senior Federal Manager. He came straight from In-Q-Tel, where he had been Director of Technology Assessment.

By: hasbarablaster

hasbarablaster — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:21:38 +0000

they left this one up: Open Letter to Google: Censorship is getting out of control " target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLsa6S5DTas

By: hasbarablaster

hasbarablaster — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:11:09 +0000

Don't Be...Anti-Semitic! Sergei Brin is also Jewish " target="_blank">http://www.adatshalom.com/pages/audiovideo.php Did you know that the two founders of Google, Serget Brin and Larry Page are Jewish? Watch this interview from Israel with Sergey Brin. " target="_blank">http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/02/15/anti... Anti-Semitism and Google's Sergey Brin There is a lengthy and interesting new profile out of Google founder Sergey Brin. Published in a Jewish politics & culture magazine, you learn about how Brin thinks anti-semitism has popped up in his Wikipedia profile, and about how his "standard" Russian-Jewish family influenced his success. From the article, here he is on the latter subject in a recent speech at a Tel Aviv university: "I have standard Russian-Jewish parents," he then continued in English. "My dad is a math professor. They have a certain attitude about studies. And I think I can relate that here, because I was told that your school recently got seven out of the top 10 places in a math competition throughout all Israel." The students applauded their achievement and the recognition from Sergey, unaware that he was setting up a joke."What I have to say," he continued, "is in the words of my father: 'What about the other three?'"