Google Censorship Debate

The cluster focuses on discussions about Google's alleged censorship practices in search results, content moderation, and removal requests, including political bias, DMCA takedowns, and the 'right to be forgotten'. Debates question whether these actions constitute censorship or necessary filtering.

📉 Falling 0.3x Politics & Society
3,232
Comments
20
Years Active
5
Top Authors
#3984
Topic ID

Activity Over Time

2007
3
2008
11
2009
34
2010
89
2011
161
2012
159
2013
89
2014
228
2015
133
2016
155
2017
235
2018
324
2019
225
2020
265
2021
372
2022
267
2023
234
2024
116
2025
115
2026
17

Keywords

IT zerohedge.com v.s answer.py CNN google.co DDG YouTube google.com crooked.com google censorship search censoring content image search results search engines google doesn censor

Sample Comments

crummy Oct 24, 2019 View on HN

Can you give some examples of politically controversial results google might be censoring?

asddubs Dec 7, 2020 View on HN

google might not be so keen to moderate that kind of thing since they effectively do the same thing

beaner Mar 7, 2021 View on HN

Google is censoring it as well.

inetknght Aug 1, 2018 View on HN

What's the news here? Google's doing the right thing. Don't remove things that aren't breaking any laws.

grandalf Jul 26, 2012 View on HN

You're worried about Google censoring content or protocols?

bborud Oct 30, 2024 View on HN

Why is Google not policing this? Liability concerns?

vonmoltke Oct 17, 2014 View on HN

Google publishes DMCA takedown requests. Not sure about government censorship, though.

covermydonkey Jan 13, 2021 View on HN

Wouldn't Google censor the effort in it's news feed and search results?

Frazzydee Jan 24, 2010 View on HN

How are the attacks on google a result of censorship?

komali2 May 13, 2019 View on HN

What free speech does Google explicitly censor?