Do we have a right to freedom for speech? It has been noted and discussed widely recently that Google without any prior explanation or notice, has been terminating its News relationship with conservative e-zines and web journals.

In a recently published article Google News Re-Defines Hate-Speech, one can witness a new form of censorship curbing the voice of free media.

“Search for pornography (including homosexuality, pedophilia and bestiality), a litany of anti-American themes or conspiracy theorists, sites that show video of public beheadings or hostage torture by people known to be enemies not only to the United States, but to the free world, and Google will deliver millions of results to your desk top in seconds.

But when conservative news sites recently ran well researched and fundamentally factual news stories about Jihadists seeking further harm to innocent Americans, Google deemed those articles and the sites that ran them “hate speech” and is working to remove them from the search results.

In a recent letter to well known and well respected conservative news site The New Media Journal editor Frank Salvato, Google wrote:

“Hi Frank,

Thanks for writing. We received numerous reports about hate content on your site, and after reviewing these reports, decided to remove your site from Google News.  We do not allow articles and sources expressly promoting hate speech viewpoints in Google News (although referencing hate speech for commentary and analysis is acceptable).

For example, a number of the complaints we looked at on your site were found to be hate content:

http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/peck/05102006.htm

http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/stock/05082006.htm

http://www.newmediajournal.us/guest/imani/04222006.htm

We hope this helps you understand our position.

Regards,

The Google Team”

While Google has its own explanation but are we going to buy it?

Do you think Google is politically correct?