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Originally Posted by WarChild
More like ridiculous. Google is not a goverment agency. You have no rights in regards to being listed or ranked on their service.  |
Yep. The US Supreme Court has, repeatedly since the Civil War, held that claims of CENSORSHIP (ie., violations of the 1st Amendment) can be made against GOVERNMENT agencies/entities. Google is a private company. It can do whatever the fuck it wants re speech (unless it does so within the framework of a contract with the US government wherein it becomes a proxy/agent for the government--this is clearly not the case here).