Google Accused To Benefit Child Pornography

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One of the most popular world-wide indexadores is to be accused to benefit of the infantile pornography. The North American politician of the State of Long Island, Jeffrey Toback, accused the Google âto be the more efficient greater and half to facilitate and to distribute infantile pornography in the whole worldâ and goes more far. Cited for the âThe Inquirerâ, the democratical representative of the county of Nassau (New York) alleges that the motor greater of research âhas links paid for sites and benefits of that it is crimeâ. The Google was changeded into a company who âpromotes and benefitsâ of illegal content on minors, supported the politician. Toback moved an action at law against the giant of the Internet as a share âpro-asset to safeguard the childrenâ and thus to force the representatives of the great companies of Internet as the Google âto have more attention for this type of content, being blocked sites with illegal pornography in its researchâ, justified. Jeffrey Toback advanced that this share does not search any indemnização, only intends to be an attempt to make with that the Google pass to forbid âto the advertising the sites that show, sxell or give illegal access to the pornographyâ. Although the intentions of the democratical politician, are many the voices that have called to the attention for the fact this in case that judicial to be to be moved in exclusive against the Google, âforgettingâ other engines search as the Yahoo! or the MSN of the Microsoft. The advanced notice in the passed thursday for the North American press surprised the representatives of the indexador. Source next to the Google denied accusations and confirmed that the company has taken diverse precautions in the direction to prevent the access the child molestors contents. In an official notice sent for agency AFP, the representative of the Google, Steve Langdon, explained that when finds any type of infantile pornography, this âis removed of our products, also of the search mechanismâ. In the same way, it advanced, âwe notify the competent authorities and we cooperate with all the possible waysâ. Langdon remembered despite the indexador has a called service used SafeSearch âto filter any adult contentâ.

Edited May 12, 2006 by szupie (see edit history)

[tansqrx 0]

Sounds interesting. Do you have an original article or external links?

[sendo72 0]

i don't now what to think about google... It is still one of the best search sites i've ever seen. But don't forget that we are living in the era of accusations and trials...

[BitShift 0]

I think other companies are trying to find ways to stop Google's growthHow is a company who indexes billions of web pages supposed to be able to find and delete bad links, in this case "child pornography"i know they probly have a huge staff that does stuff like this but no matter wut, its not an easy taskbesides why would Google take part in something so illegal, in an area they know they could easily be caught, its just accusations, and people wanting moneyI think Google is growing into a very prosperous company, starting out as just a search engine and now they have all these cool programs like Google Earth, Google Desktopand lets not forget GMail, in which my opinion revolutionized webmail with its massive storage space, powerful yet simple spam filters, simple userface, free forwarding to outlook and other mail software, and strict policy against keeping your email address private from spammers, unlike yahoo and hotmail, in which you open an account with them and you have spammers in days, before you ever even use ur new email addressgoogle impresses me again and again every day, coming out with all this new software, and for the most part most of it is free, yet still extremely innovative

[Dagoth Nereviar 0]

Google can't really be blamed for EVERY child pornography site that might come up on their engines.Yes, they should block them, but it's not like Google make them in the first place...Why don't they go after the websites, not the search engine?

[tansqrx 0]

Isn’t this the some old discussion that guns don’t kill, people do? Google is only a computer program. By itself Google can not do anything wrong or illegal, it only follows a preset algorithm entered into it by its programmers. As time has told, apparently Google has a really good algorithm and it shouldn’t be changed. Google’s job is to index every page on the Internet despite what that page may hold. It is up to the end user to do what is best. I guess the bottom line is that Google does not search for bad things, people do.

[Logan Deathbringer 0]

While I must say that I find this interesting I have to agree with TANSQRX and say that it isn't the tool that google gives access to that promotes child pornography its the user that looks for it that is to blame as well as the one that put it up that are the problems. While I agree that some sort of filter or active search and permanant blocking needs to be implemented on all search engines, I don't agree that Google should be singled out as an example.It does seem to me that this article makes it look like this politition seems to trying to make a name and reputation for him/herself by making an example out of a big name company in an atempt to possibly feed their political agenda.The old attage, "The ends do not justify the means" comes to mind while reading this article. I agree that child porn needs to be monitored and crushed, but trying to do so and build ones reputation, as well as political power at the expense of another isn't right.Any search engine at this point will allow someone who really wants this filth, search for it. Yes the problem needs to be looked at and fixed, but dragging a company into court and charging them with the facilitaion of the passing of it isn't right, in my humble opinion.