Google Censorship - Slashdotted

A Slashdot poster sets off another round of Google badmouthing-goodmouthing rants over alleged censoring of Abu Ghraib Prison images (along with Lynddie England images).



The discussion got a response from Sergey Brin (via Chris DiBona):

"In short, There is no censorship here. We are embarassed that our image index is not updated as frequently as it should be. Expect a refresh in the near future.



In the meantime, you can just search on Google Web Search for abu graib photos to get plenty of what you are looking for."

Some of the comments were very harsh and accused Google of being a Bush puppet. DiBona was a little more terse in this regard:

"Please don't ascribe some dating issues on images to some political motive, we take this kind of stuff very seriously. We have to comply with the law, but there is no law yet on the books reguiring that companies in the United States take down pictures that might be embarassing to the current administration."