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Marc Baber is a free-lance consultant, writer, website developer and activist for election reform based in Eugene Oregon specializing in database applications for non-profit organizations and political campaigns.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 21, 2007 "Smart-Mob" Censorship at Google and YouTube
We hope that as awareness of the abuse of this feature for censorship grows,Google will discontinue SafeSearch or replace it with a system that includes accountability and reputation for the people making censorship decisions."Mobs" of Google users simply should not be allowed to anonymously blackball videos they disagree with as if free speech were only a privilege for members of an exclusive 19th century gentlemen's club.