Search engines’ license to censor Internet, protecting vast commercial interests and political influence, makes NSA snooping look like Candy Crush
“The First Amendment protects Baidu’s right to advocate for systems of government other than democracy [in China or the U.S.] just as surely as it protects plaintiffs’ rights to advocate for democracy.”
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman sitting in Manhattan (!) has dismissed a lawsuit against Baidu, the Chinese Internet Goliath, which the plaintiff, a group of pro-democracy activists, argued suppresses political speech on China’s most widely used search engine.
The plaintiff, eight New York writers and video producers, had argued that Baidu search engine algorithms, created at the behest of Chinese government, blocks users in the United States from viewing articles, videos and other information critical of China’s suppression of democracy.
What the judge conveniently ignores in his judgment is the monopoly power of a major search engine over the flow of information.
Add this license for Internet censorship to Google’s near monopoly over the flow of information in the U.S. and much of the world, and multiply the result by their efforts to protect their vast commercial interests and political influence …
Google and a handful of other Internet Goliaths bend the truth like black holes do light.
[Baidu is the fifth-most trafficked site in the world with more than 500 million regular users in China and a growing following in the US, topped only by Yahoo, Google’s YouTube, Facebook and Google, according to an Internet traffic monitor. Editor.]
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