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Don't be doubleplusungood - 1/27/2006 10:05:00 PM

In George Orwell's 1984 dystopia, the totalitarian government didn't just delete information they didn't like, they distorted the information to support their goals.

Google's censorship technology that they developed for the Chinese government doesn't just block sensitive search terms like [falun gong] or [tiananmen square], but it selectively shows results that support the government's position while silently blocking those that do not.

So Google's not just limiting access to "sensitive" search terms, but they're intentionally biasing the results.

That's doubleplusungood.