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Censored Search Results

Searching for “I’m on a boat” on Youtube generates this page with the official video strangely absent. Youtube is censoring search results based on geographical location for NBC and other large corporations. Google censors search results in China, but provides a notification at the bottom of the page indicating that some search results were filtered out. Strangely, Google doesn’t do the same thing on YouTube, they silently censor search results without informing the public  that they are doing so.

Why is it OK for corporations to censor search results, when it’s not OK for China to do it?

Censored Search Results

Searching for “I’m on a boat” on Youtube generates this page with the official video strangely absent. Youtube is censoring search results based on geographical location for NBC and other large corporations. Google censors search results in China, but provides a notification at the bottom of the page indicating that some search results were filtered out. Strangely, Google doesn’t do the same thing on YouTube, they silently censor search results without informing the public that they are doing so.

Why is it OK for corporations to censor search results, when it’s not OK for China to do it?

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Posted: 2009-05-10 22:58

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