Google continues its Don't Be Evil policy

[homasse]

Google tells Australia its 'Net filters go way too far

This can't be the way that Australia wanted it. One day after Google announced its decision to stop censoring its search results in China, the Australian government released the results of a public consultation on its own Internet censorship proposal. Predictably, Google has some objections (

Comments

[popehippo]

[lacunaz]

Four for you, Google.

Censorship is a slippery slope and I do not agree with it at all. Determining what is "excessive" in terms of violence or sex or anything is quite subjective, and all it takes is a conservative power hell-bent on cleaning up the internet for the children, and boom! Suddenly you're China.

[box_in_the_box]

Governments need to realize, at last, that they have no authority over the Internet, and this is a step in the right direction.

[victorialupin]

Damn, I'm loving Google this week. :)

[libre_m]

Yay Google! You're so pretty and funny and clever...