June 29, 2003

Sanity and Sanitization

If you go to Google today and search for 'Black Republicans', you will not find this website. That is because I have used some choice words that Google doesn't accept for its paid advertisers.

In order to meet the greater good of spreading the good word, I am going to redact the bad words here. I will continue to publish orignal stuff over at Cobb, and then print sanitized versions here. So if you swear that you've seen a more peppery version of the same idea somewhere else, you aren't going crazy. Google is the reason.

How do I feel about this kind of censorship? I have no idea what kind of algorithm Google is using, but I know that it is a computer algorithm. So I do not believe that there is some ideological filter on my speech, rather a spell-checker on steroids. It's a reality I can endure.

Posted by mbowen at June 29, 2003 10:06 AM | TrackBack