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Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by barredo on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @06:27PM (#2145758)
Well, I'll say "Google is not censoring any search results" but it is censoring any search terms, right?
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Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by JonnieCache on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @06:46PM (#2145846)
No. It is declining to actively push certain terms on the user.
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Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by smokeyj on Thursday January 27, 2011 @12:33AM (#2146730)
> It is declining to actively push certain terms on the user.

Let's say a search engine in China was obligated to "decline actively pushing a certain query", would we not call that censorship? Can someone explain my semantic hangup?

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Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by barredo on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @07:59PM (#2146063)
Well, I think that's it and you're right.
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