Google blocking opinions with which it disagrees regarding "network neutrality?" EXPLAINATION?? djf

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Brett Glass [brett () lariat net]
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 9:26 PM
To: David Farber; Ip ip
Subject: Google blocking opinions with which it disagrees regarding "network neutrality?"

Everyone:

Google has been a strong supporter of the agenda of Free Press, an
inside-the-Beltway lobbying group which has spent hundreds of
thousands of dollars lobbying for regulation of the Internet under
regime known as "network neutrality." While some of the tenets
included in this agenda are not reasonable, one of those that IS
reasonable is the notion that large corporations such as Comcast
should not block content with which they disagree.

However, Google -- itself a large corporation -- appears to be
blocking a site which expresses opinions with which it does not
agree on this very issue. When one does a search for the terms
"neutrality" and "site:pff.org" (the link

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=neutrality+site%3Apff.org&btnG=Google+Search

will perform this search for you), many of the pages and documents
on the site -- in particular, white papers expressing views with
which Google disagrees -- are tagged with a warning that "This site
may harm your computer." One cannot click through to the documents
and pages in Google's search results without cutting the URL from
the page and manually pasting it into one's browser.

The Web site, operated by a group known as the "Progress and
Freedom Foundation," does not appear to contain any malware. When
one queries Google as to why the site was blacklisted, it claims
that "Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1
time(s) over the past 90 days." Yet, we could find no malware or
other exploits in the blacklisted PDF files, some of which contain
very well presented and cogent arguments against the agenda which
Google has been actively supporting.

Could it be that Google (whose motto is, reportedly, "Don't be
evil,") saying, "Do as I say, not as I do?"

--Brett Glass

P.S. -- What's especially interesting is that if one queries Google
using just the term, "site:pff.org" (you can use the link

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Apff.org&btnG=Search

to do this query), one can see that the majority of the supposedly
dangerous site is not blocked. But most or all of the documents
expressing viewpoints on "network neutrality" are.






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