Dead Cant Rant

On Tuesday Google News removed The Jawa Report because they claim it “contains hate speech.”

Rusty comments:

I challenge Google News to find one instance of ‘hate speech’ on this site that is not either a case of sarcasm, humor, or a direct quote used in the context of a post that attempts to do just the opposite.

Unless, of course, Google News considers saying bad things about Jew hating anti-semites, fascists who would impose religious law, or those that cut off the heads of innocent civilians hate speech. Cause in my book, that’s a good thing.

It’s not surprising. There have been several serious charges recently that Google is engaging in some underhanded “dirty tricks”. The company’s employees overwhelmingly donated to the Kerry campaign during the 2004 election, and their news site has consistently featured leftist weblogs while selectively excluding some of the best material coming from the right.

Remember, they index indymedia, which produces such gems as Don’t kill Bush for me, do it for Jesus.

And don’t forget, they sit on the largest data-mining operation in the history of the world, able to call up obscure facts at a moment’s notice. This has been called into question before by Jack Lewis: What’s Google up to?

Could Google be using the robots.txt files to intentionally harvest data people want hidden?

Not scary enough for you? Well, add to that the problems Michelle Malkin, Charles Johnson and other bloggers have had getting their blogs listed on Google News. Apparently Google refused to add Conservative blogs, but has no problem adding Liberal blogs such as Wonkette or the Democrat Underground.

Then it should come as no surprise that as I reported earlier today about the political contributions of Google employees.

Let’s add it up: Google a blatantly Liberal entity, is found to have tons of sensitive data archived on its site, and seems to be using the robots.txt files to sniff out where that sensitive information is hidden. Why would they want it, and what do they plan to do with it? The last election was pretty dirty and stuff was being dug up left and right. Could Google be building a “dirt chest” of secrets to unload during the next election?