Google has just axed this site, for which I write, from its host of approved news providers. Google’s rationale is that OfficialWire is purveyor of hate speech. (I used to envision Google as some sort of jolly, benign, Disney-like cartoon character: harmless, productive, fair, white-hat-wearing. Obviously, a case of brilliant branding: the name, the logo, the concept slid into my consciousness like a whiff of freshly-baked apple pie.
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There’s a lot more I could say, believe me. I could talk your ears off about the fact that we’re a failed species, that there was not “The” holocaust but, rather, that there have been myriad holocausts, and that they continue, unabated. And that the Jews weren’t singled out but, along with the Armenians, the Kurds, the Native Americans, the dead and the dying in Darfur, and the thousands of innocents my own countrymen have wiped out “collaterally” in Iraq, the Jews are just like the rest of us—likely to be slaughtered, en masse, at the drop of a hat.
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There’s a lot more I could say, believe me. I could talk your ears off about the fact that we’re a failed species, that there was not “The” holocaust but, rather, that there have been myriad holocausts, and that they continue, unabated. And that the Jews weren’t singled out but, along with the Armenians, the Kurds, the Native Americans, the dead and the dying in Darfur, and the thousands of innocents my own countrymen have wiped out “collaterally” in Iraq, the Jews are just like the rest of us—likely to be slaughtered, en masse, at the drop of a hat.
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And the anti-Google crowd chimes in again:
"But, Tykes at Google: you have to read the whole story. You can't just count on your software to isolate a few buzz phrases, and damn the whole kit-and-caboodle as racist/sexist/anti-Semitic/whatever. You. Have. To. Read."
Two things:
First... ummmm, no they don't. Google doesn't have to do a damn thing it isn't contractually obligated to do. People may not like that, but thems are the breaks. Googlebot. Reads. So. People. Don't. Have. To.
Second... it must've taken the author a while to write this article. I wonder if she spent any time at all sending a bug report to Google to let them know that their news bot may not be performing correctly.
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