Google blocks blog because of reference to Down's syndrome
It was a reference in the "Comments" section:
"Google has unblocked Scamp, the UK's most popular advertising industry blog, following the removal of comments containing "hate speech". The comments, in a post on dating in the advertising industry, were removed after complaints were made to Google's "hate crimes" division. Scamp, which is run by advertising executive Simon Veksner, had been blocked since Friday by Google-owned blogging platform Blogger.
Veksner speculated that the post that triggered the complaints was called Sauce Poll on the subject of "who in an ad agency you would prefer to date?". He said that while Google did not refer to which post or posts had caused the blog to be blocked, he assumed that it was an offensive comment, which has now been deleted, "along the lines of how they would rather have sex with someone with Down's syndrome than an advertising professional".
Veksner said that while the post, made on Friday, did draw a backlash from the online community he at first left it on the blog. "A lot of people were offended, but I decided not to delete the comment," he told MediaGuardian.co.uk. "My policy is I do delete comments where the commenter is intending to be offensive, but I don't delete comments where the commenter's primary intention is to be witty, even if what they say ends up offending people." Veksner said that he moved to edit the posts following the official blocking of the website.
"I've deleted all the comments on here relating to sex with people who have Down's syndrome," he said in a post on Scamp. "Although Google haven't informed me exactly which post on this blog caused the activation of their hate crimes division, the strength of feeling in the comments section here leads me to believe it was this one."
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Must not regard the mentally defective as undesirable, apparently. Where does this end? What about ugly women? Is it forbidden to regard them as undesirable?
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
If all women were beautiful then there would be no need for beer.
I wonder if the folks at google have to goose-step into the office in the morning, or started wearing their brown shirts yet.
I am not really learned in these matters, so I am just guessing here; but I assume the reason that people use Google is because it is free. If that is the case then bloggers are getting what they paid for and the bitching rights reach equal proportions. Nothing for nothing.
This is not to say that Google should not be exposed for their lack of fairness and obvious bias, but one's expectations for same should be tempered by its actual value.
Who really should be exposed in these events are the retards who troll the internet looking to be offended.
Only up to an hour before closing
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!"
So is pig-ugly, anonymous.
I don't want to lock loins with a fat sweat hog with the intellegence of a doorknob or a retard who is Coyote ugly?
I want to have loooooong sessions of uninhibited sex with a beautiful, slim, intelligent blonde.
Anybody got Ann Coulter's cell phone number?
grainnewale, your taste in women seems to be equivalent to your IQ.
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