A week ago, an XBIZ report debunked a propaganda news release disseminated by anti-porn activist organization NCOSE (formerly known — before a deceptive rebranding — as Morality in Media) claiming that United Airlines had caved under the pressure of one of their campaigns and had decided to "combat rising in-flight porn use."
The filtering function embedded in Google News is still allowing sexually explicit images through, as evidenced by a situation today in which a regular query for "Hot Celebrities" retrieved a strikingly explicit image of female genitalia.
After a series of violent protests and the violent crackdown in response, the Chinese government has blocked all access to major American media outlets, including YouTube and Google News.
In a ruling that could have wide-ranging effects for copyright law online, Internet search engine Google has been ordered to remove links to a Belgian newspaper’s stories from its news aggregation service.
