Thursday 18 September 2008

Google Feels the Sting of Web Censorship

Google has been forced to lift its ban on religious organisations placing anti-abortion ads on its site after it was sued by a pro-life charity. Its previous policy banned advertising sites that mixed “abortion and religion-related content”. The Christian Institute, which sued Google, is now allowed to place paid search ads on the search engine.

Meanwhile YouTube is adapting to self-imposed censorship within the UK where it has banned the uploading of videos encouraging gang violence and gun and knife crime, after it came under fire for not regulating its video content enough to prevent the exposure of videos with violent material.

- Sam

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