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Re:Google Doodle Upholds Gay Rights Ahead of Sochi Olympics by davidjgraph on Friday February 07, 2014 @06:30AM (#7195772)
> Google also censors pornography because a subset of users are offended by it.

Censoring pornography doesn't infringe anyone's human rights.

Re:Google Doodle Upholds Gay Rights Ahead of Sochi Olympics by einhverfr on Friday February 07, 2014 @07:24AM (#7195942)
Please, so that we can test such an assertion:

1. Define human rights

2. Provide a methodology by which they can be objectively known.

Is a right to be left alone to one's culture a human right? Is a right not to be deprived by outside powers of one's native language a human right? And who gets to set the limits on the outer limits of such a right? (i.e. is the right to advocate the position that genocide of, say, black folk, is desirable a human right? What about pornography?).

My own sense is that usually these have no epistemology behind them and are based solely on projecting one's a priori assumptions onto the world.

Re:Google Doodle Upholds Gay Rights Ahead of Sochi Olympics by icebraining on Friday February 07, 2014 @06:39AM (#7195799)
Why? Pornography is speech too.
Re:Google Doodle Upholds Gay Rights Ahead of Sochi Olympics by Shivetya on Friday February 07, 2014 @06:53AM (#7195834)
when a private entity chooses what it displays to the public I have no qualms with it, its censorship when a government entity chooses what you can or cannot view, say, or read.