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Is Google censoring bloggers on behalf of the New Zealand government?

Posted by Tim B. on 02/02/2007 at 10:23 AM

  1. Who does New Zealand think it is? China?

    Posted by paco on 2007 02 02 at 10:30 AM • permalink

  2. Not China, that’s for sure. When it censored the US Navy’s nuclear fleet it attained the world status of the Chatham Islands.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 02 02 at 10:37 AM • permalink

  3. Honestly, what legitimate company signs a letter of that nature with a signature like “The Blogger Team”?  Every email I get from someone that is signed with the word “Team”, like “the PayPal Team”, is a spam or phishing email trying to trick me into doing something.  The wording of the rest of the note, and the removing of individual posts with no warning (i.e. not just putting a hold on the whole blog), sounds mighty odd, too.

    Posted by kcom on 2007 02 02 at 10:51 AM • permalink

  4. They reposted the deleted article, and this paragraph might give you an idea why it was deleted:

    “If you read this Jonno Harris....Note my name and NEVER ever forget what you did to Leighton and Royce...I’m watching and waiting and never far behind you.”

    I think the guy is threatening a social worker for stealing his kids.

    Posted by blogagog on 2007 02 02 at 11:10 AM • permalink

  5. blogagog, it may be better to say that the blog is vehemently against the NZ child protection service.  A lot of the other posts on that blog read as decent, and an attempt to shine the light on a dark part of the NZ government. 

    Still, even one of his commenters chide the blogger for that post.  It’s not a good one, I have to to admit.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 02 at 11:38 AM • permalink

  6. Speaking of blog censorship maybe readers could help me out with an issue concerning young gun barrister, Jeremy Sears.

    Yesterday I accused him of being, ‘a serial comment baner/deleter’. This was mainly on the basis of previous reports here that readers comments at Jeremy’s had either been banned or deleted.

    Jeremy has now challenged my assertion insisting, ‘I have never banned someone for expressing a contrary opinion’.

    Can any readers confirm this or am I thinking of someone else ? If so I’ll be forced to issue a grovelling apology. Readers, please help me !

    Posted by JAFA on 2007 02 02 at 12:11 PM • permalink

  7. Google’s been screwing the Right for some time now. I don’t recall all the examples but I switched to Ask.com. Works just fine.

    Posted by GaryS on 2007 02 02 at 12:18 PM • permalink

  8. Tired and bedraggled, wronwright is sad.  He’s been sitting for 12 hours now, in the prototype Cat D-10 Tiger Tractor, awaiting the arrival of the Goremongers storming the midwest with their message of glowball warmening.  The rotary blade has been powered down, having already shredded 14 autos of French origin, all in practice for the big attack. 

    He drinks his heaping cup of Starbuck coffee, sweetened with 2 packets of Sweet-n-Low and a generous pour of cream meant for the mouth of a bleating calf.  No storming, no attack, no moonbat assaults of any kind.  Once again, wronwright has been sent by Timothy Blair on a boondoggle of mythic proportions.  Angrily wronwright writes Tim’s name in his book of wronwrigheous retribution.

    Yes, as with the others Tim will some day get his just desserts.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 02 02 at 12:29 PM • permalink

  9. Also, does it seem like Google search results are getting to be more watered-down to anyone else, or is it just me?

    Posted by aaron_ on 2007 02 02 at 01:17 PM • permalink

  10. #8 wronwright: Faced with the prospect of storming “The Wronwright Line”, the zombietruppen of the Gormacht decided to launch their ditzkrieg in Illinois.

    Posted by paco on 2007 02 02 at 01:27 PM • permalink

  11. #8, They’re waiting for spring, wronwright, when the weather’s a little warmer.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 02 02 at 03:20 PM • permalink

  12. Also, does it seem like Google search results are getting to be more watered-down to anyone else, or is it just me?

    They’ve supposedly changed something to lessen the impact of deliberate Google-bombing skewing search results, but I’m not sure if that has had any impact on un-bombed search terms, as well.

    Posted by PW on 2007 02 02 at 04:36 PM • permalink

  13. Why use Google at all? Dogpile is far better, imho

    Posted by Crusader-Rabbit on 2007 02 02 at 05:08 PM • permalink

  14. I haven’t used Google in years, just because of that kind of nonsense.

    Posted by rabidfox on 2007 02 02 at 06:51 PM • permalink

  15. Might been close to revealing the awful truth about Helen Clark. She is really a *** (censored by ****) (censored by ****)

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 02 02 at 08:04 PM • permalink

  16. Don’t give your sheep any answers, or any background, or any insight or any explanation. Just point your telling bone and let loose your ignorant admirers. Get any kickbacks for this effort?

    Posted by Miranda Divide on 2007 02 02 at 09:02 PM • permalink

  17. Miranda, you seem to be confusing this sort of bone pointing with this one.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 02 02 at 11:05 PM • permalink

  18. #3

    Honestly, what legitimate company signs a letter of that nature with a signature like “The Blogger Team”?

    The same sort of company, whose staff are forbidden from giving their second names over the phone, assuming I will hunt them down and murder their family over a billing matter.

    Daniel: Thanks for your help. What is your name Mrs… ?

    Operator: Karen.

    Daniel: Karennnn????

    Operator: I’m sorry, we can’t give out our surname.

    Daniel: [Sigh] Well can you give me your extension number or some other means of referring to you?

    Operator: Sorry, I don’t actually have a phone number.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 02 03 at 12:37 AM • permalink

  19. Of course Google have to pull some posts if they break the law etc as they are the publishers. The guy who runs the site seems unhinged and I think it would be a fair assumption that they are acting responsibly rather than implementing a china style solution.

    Posted by captain on 2007 02 03 at 03:16 AM • permalink

  20. But… but… but… Google CAN’T be in the wrong, here… that’d be against their corporate motto!

    Posted by nofixedabode on 2007 02 03 at 02:46 PM • permalink

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