Google Caught Censoring Critic

Matthew Lee of Inner City Press isn’t the nicest person. In fact, his public behavior is often quite ill-mannered.

It appears that Matthew’s manners have gained him another powerful enemy recently — Google.

At a joint press conference held by the United Nations Development Programme and Google, Matt asked Google’s Chief Technologist Michael T. Jones why Google hadn’t signed the global human-rights and anti-censorship compact.

Apparently as a result of this public questioning, Inner City Press was banned from Google News, the news aggregation service. Until that time, Google News was the top distribution medium for Inner City Press.

Google claims to have banned Inner City Press in response to a single complaint which they received. Google will not divulge the content of the complaint nor the source of the complaint.

In addition, Google refuses to publish the qualification rules for Google News.

Google now claims that they are trying to un-censor Inner City Press, but are unable to do so due to “technical difficulties.”

Read the full details of these shenanigans at Google, Asked About Censorship at the UN, Moved to Censor the Questioner, Sources Say, Blaming UNDP and Journalist Who Exposes U.N. Corruption Disappears From Google.