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Old 01-27-2011, 05:44 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Lester Burnham View Post
There seems to be a slippery slope issue here. Basically, an industry group pressures a leading search engine to censor certain words. What's next? Now that Google has shown that it is willing to cave to public or private interests, who is to say they don't target other "taboo" subject matter, e.g., porn, guns, etc., etc.
Google isn't a public service, it's a company and those who own it are free to do as they please within the law.

I recently did a poll of people who thought the Internet should be exempt of laws. Most people voted yes.

They have no idea of the slippery slope that would put them on.
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