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Old 01-27-2011, 08:16 AM  
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Originally Posted by Lester Burnham View Post
There seems to be a slippery slope issue here. Basically, an industry group pressures a leading search engine to censor certain words. What's next? Now that Google has shown that it is willing to cave to public or private interests, who is to say they don't target other "taboo" subject matter, e.g., porn, guns, etc., etc.
I tend to agree with Lester. Censorship at first seem like a good idea as a solution to some problems, but in the end it tends to just become the problem itself.
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