Google hypocrisy over Michelle Obama 'monkey' image

Whatever your view on human intervention to remove ‘offensive’ search engine results, it cannot be denied that Google resorted to talking utter crap yesterday while attempting to wriggle away from controversy around the indexing of a photoshopped image depicting Michelle Obama as a monkey.

“We do not remove a page from our search results simply because its content is unpopular or because we receive complaints concerning it” – Google

Except if you’re the Chinese government that is! You can try the human rights Pepsi Challenge for yourself here and here.

Google image search for Tiananmen Square

Google image search for Tiananmen Square (this time in China)

An expat friend has advised that Scrapbook may be the internet equivalent of Norman Wisdom, being one of the few British political blogs available behind the so-called ‘great firewall of China’.

But – on the basis of the above – not for much longer!