Google News' Canned Response Isn't Good Enough

Hello? Your canned answer is not good enough.

First of all, "zionism" is not an ethnicity or race -- it is a political ideology. Being opposed to zionism is like being opposed to democrats or republicans.

Second of all, "ragheads" is certainly an ethnic slur, yet I also found that on your google news search. "Islamofascist" is a clear religious slur.

I'm sorry, this isn't good enough and your disappointing response makes me sick.


Quoting "news-feedback@google.com" <news-feedback@google.com>:

Hi James,

> Thank you for your email.

> We understand you are concerned that Indymedia articles no longer show up in Google News, and would like to explain what happened.

> Google News continuously crawls a growing list of more than 4,500 English-language news sources. Our inclusion of news sources is done without regard to political viewpoint or ideology. We have a policy, however, to exclude sites that publish pornography and/or hate speech. Consistent with this policy, Google removed Indymedia from Google News because we found stories originating from Indymedia that contained hate speech (not just reporting on hate speech).

We aim to be as inclusive as possible in regards to news sources for Google News, so are working with Indymedia to try and include them again in the future. In the meantime, you can still find Indymedia sites and articles by doing a regular websearch on Google.com.

> Regards,
> The Google Team