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10-06-2004, 12:12 PM
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
Disclaimer: The purpose of this post is NOT to argue the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. It is not my intention to sound like a conspiracy theorist, I am genuinely interested in the following, and would like to keep as close to the topic as possible.
Background: I was discussing Abu Ghraib with a friend this weekend. She mentioned that, in one of the photos, the word "rapist" was written on the backside of a prisoner. The thing is, it was misspelled r-a-p-e-i-s-t. She seemed to think it was pretty sad and one of those "icing on the cake" moments.
Having never noticed the spelling, I went to Google Images to search for it. "Abu Ghraib" brought up only photos of the outside of the prison. Not a single photo from the scandal. Next I searched for "Lynndie England", not a single picture. Next I decided to look for "Charles Graner" her boyfriend who was also prominently features in the pictures, nothing.
I tried many different spellings for each name, used quotes, didn't use quotes and checked to make sure SafeSearch was not enabled.
Needless to say, I was a little confused. Less than two weeks earlier, I had searched Google Images for Abu Ghraib photos with great success.
Where did the Agu Ghraib photos go?
What is Google's policy on controversial information?
I have heard that Google cooperates with a few countries to filter search results, blocking some content in France and Germany. Is this happening in the US also? If so to what extent? I know some websites are permanently de-linked, but I thought they were primarily concerned with drug trade, terrorists, improvised weapons and illegal pornography pages. Am I being naive?
Isn't Google Images a bot?
Wouldn't the pictures have to be removed by an actual flesh and blood person?
I know Google Images often misses pictures, but there are none! I know they did exist on Image Search.
Any ideas?
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10-06-2004, 12:15 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
Google knows how to censor. They do it with China. They've done it with ads. They're not the ideal source of information anymore.
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10-06-2004, 12:18 PM
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Lifer
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
I quit using Yahoo - unregistered my account and everything when they helped China install GIANT Web Filters to restrict everything that the human beings in China are allowed to read on the Internet.
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CHRISTIANS:
THEIR PROFIT IS HATE
While their PROPHET IS LOVE
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Iranians working for the C.I.A. and posing as Communists harassed religious leaders and staged the bombing of one cleric's home in a campaign to turn the country's Islamic religious community against Mossadegh's government.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world...cia-index.html
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10-06-2004, 12:21 PM
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Lifer
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
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CHRISTIANS:
THEIR PROFIT IS HATE
While their PROPHET IS LOVE
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Iranians working for the C.I.A. and posing as Communists harassed religious leaders and staged the bombing of one cleric's home in a campaign to turn the country's Islamic religious community against Mossadegh's government.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world...cia-index.html
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10-06-2004, 12:21 PM
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Lifer
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
Quote:
Originally posted by: dahunan
I quit using Yahoo - unregistered my account and everything when they helped China install GIANT Web Filters to restrict everything that the human beings in China are allowed to read on the Internet.
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Are we talking about goolge or yahoo?
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10-06-2004, 12:23 PM
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No Lifer
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Chicago, IL
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
He's right, the images files have been stripped. A pultry 96 images, mostly repeat outside photos is all that remains.
The censoring is active even for the U.S.
Disgusting  
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The Second Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA
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10-06-2004, 12:23 PM
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Lifer
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
Quote:
Originally posted by: Infohawk
Quote:
Originally posted by: dahunan
I quit using Yahoo - unregistered my account and everything when they helped China install GIANT Web Filters to restrict everything that the human beings in China are allowed to read on the Internet.
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Are we talking about goolge or yahoo?
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We are talking about both AND about search engines who use their powerful filters to RESTRICT FREEDOM 
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CHRISTIANS:
THEIR PROFIT IS HATE
While their PROPHET IS LOVE
Quote:
Iranians working for the C.I.A. and posing as Communists harassed religious leaders and staged the bombing of one cleric's home in a campaign to turn the country's Islamic religious community against Mossadegh's government.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world...cia-index.html
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10-06-2004, 12:24 PM
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Diamond Member
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
I was reading about 4 guys that may get the same treatment for supposely killing a Iraqi general. (First time in 40 years that a general has died in captivity, or something like that). do we have a thread on this?
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10-06-2004, 12:24 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
Quote:
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
He's right, the images files have been stripped. A pultry 96 images, mostly repeat outside photos is all that remains.
The censoring is active even for the U.S.
Disgusting
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HUH.. so you got some results from my links above??? Maybe MY ISP is blocking them too?
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CHRISTIANS:
THEIR PROFIT IS HATE
While their PROPHET IS LOVE
Quote:
Iranians working for the C.I.A. and posing as Communists harassed religious leaders and staged the bombing of one cleric's home in a campaign to turn the country's Islamic religious community against Mossadegh's government.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world...cia-index.html
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10-06-2004, 12:31 PM
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
If anyone gets an image of Lynndie England from the links dahunan provided above, I would love to know exactly what country you are searching from. I went so far as to use a few of Google's "foreign" search sites like Google Sweden. Still nothing.
So what search engine filters the least? Where the hell do I go for information?
Again, I don't mean to sound like a "tin hat" idiot, but this feels a bit "1984"-ish!
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10-06-2004, 12:35 PM
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Banned
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Location: LA
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Internet noobies...
Dogpile results
Yes there was life prior to Google.
rapist pic
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10-06-2004, 12:39 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
Quote:
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Internet noobies...
Dogpile results
Yes there was life prior to Google.
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We aren't concerned with other search engines right now.. this is a test of Googles Power to limit freedom AND WHY THE FVCK WOULD THEY DO IT!
Yes
hotbot
altavista
northernlight
etc etc
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CHRISTIANS:
THEIR PROFIT IS HATE
While their PROPHET IS LOVE
Quote:
Iranians working for the C.I.A. and posing as Communists harassed religious leaders and staged the bombing of one cleric's home in a campaign to turn the country's Islamic religious community against Mossadegh's government.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world...cia-index.html
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10-06-2004, 12:42 PM
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No Lifer
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
Quote:
Originally posted by: Shelly21
I was reading about 4 guys that may get the same treatment for supposely killing a Iraqi general. (First time in 40 years that a general has died in captivity, or something like that). do we have a thread on this?
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Read about that at the end of this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...2&threadid=1305083
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10-06-2004, 12:42 PM
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No Lifer
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Chicago, IL
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
No doubt about it.
We are beginning to taste what it is like to live in China or North Korea or Old Russia etc etc.
Hope you Neocons are Proud.
Edit: This should be stickied and also in my Revolution thread as another event leading to U.S. Civil War II
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The Gas Industry system is backwards. Instead of getting rewarded for incompetence they should be forced to lower the price thus getting lower profits while they are being incompetent.
The Second Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA
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10-06-2004, 12:47 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
I think this needs to be publicized. Anyone have any idea where we can submit it to garner some publicity as to why Google feels it necessary to censor images in a free country?
BTW, the images are still available here.
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BRING BACK :lol:
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10-06-2004, 12:50 PM
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Member
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
Quote:
Originally posted by: dahunan
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Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Internet noobies...
Dogpile results
Yes there was life prior to Google.
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We aren't concerned with other search engines right now.. this is a test of Googles Power to limit freedom AND WHY THE FVCK WOULD THEY DO IT!
Yes
hotbot
altavista
northernlight
etc etc
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Exactly, dahunan!
Internet noobie? I have used Dogpile for years. Heck, I invented the internet! :laugh:
"Where do I go for information" was a bit rhetorical, but I still want to know who filters the least. It is rather hard to rate a service by basing your judgment on its omissions. Quantifying the unquantifiable?
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10-06-2004, 12:51 PM
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Golden Member
Join Date: May 2003
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
Quote:
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
No doubt about it.
We are beginning to taste what it is like to live in China or North Korea or Old Russia etc etc.
Hope you Neocons are Proud.
Edit: This should be stickied and also in my Revolution thread as another event leading to U.S. Civil War II
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yes, because some easily availale pictures dont show up on a google search for some people, we are now in a similar situation to north korea. :roll:
it is all a partially-vast right wing neocon conspiracy
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10-06-2004, 12:53 PM
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No Lifer
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Quote:
Originally posted by: kaizersose
Quote:
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
No doubt about it.
We are beginning to taste what it is like to live in China or North Korea or Old Russia etc etc.
Hope you Neocons are Proud.
Edit: This should be stickied and also in my Revolution thread as another event leading to U.S. Civil War II
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yes, because some easily availale pictures dont show up on a google search for some people, we are now in a similar situation to north korea. :roll:
it is all a partially-vast right wing neocon conspiracy
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It's not a Conspiracy when it is in the open and in your face, glad you are enjoying the Land of the Not Free.
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The Gas Industry system is backwards. Instead of getting rewarded for incompetence they should be forced to lower the price thus getting lower profits while they are being incompetent.
The Second Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA
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10-06-2004, 12:54 PM
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Banned
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
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However, researchers at the highly-respected Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University have found that the company is actively removing sites from its database, and that this censorship is going unnoticed.
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10-06-2004, 01:42 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
Quote:
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
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However, researchers at the highly-respected Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University have found that the company is actively removing sites from its database, and that this censorship is going unnoticed.
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Thank you for that.
**If anyone wants to get this noticed just send it to all of your political campaign headquarters.. They could be the next censored group
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CHRISTIANS:
THEIR PROFIT IS HATE
While their PROPHET IS LOVE
Quote:
Iranians working for the C.I.A. and posing as Communists harassed religious leaders and staged the bombing of one cleric's home in a campaign to turn the country's Islamic religious community against Mossadegh's government.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world...cia-index.html
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10-06-2004, 01:48 PM
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Banned
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
Quote:
Originally posted by: dahunan
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Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
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However, researchers at the highly-respected Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University have found that the company is actively removing sites from its database, and that this censorship is going unnoticed.
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Thank you for that.
**If anyone wants to get this noticed just send it to all of your political campaign headquarters.. They could be the next censored group
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Sorry, I didn't read the OP initially, and I agree that it's more than a little frightening.
Looked through the Berkman Center's stuff, seems like the filtering Google does in the US is minimal, but it exists, they seem to filter much more actively in other countries. They mentioned Germany & France several times.
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10-06-2004, 02:15 PM
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Where is Lynndie? Where is Lynndie?
I just contacted three people in local radio. Just as a start. I know they all use the Internet (along with more traditional media outlets) to research their radio shows.
The Internet is where many people go for news. The possible ramifications of this should be obvious.
Let's not lay the blame on any political party just yet. I feel it would do this thread a disservice, allowing it to degenerate into Red vs. Blue. Censorship is not necessarily a partisan issue until it has been shown that the deck is stack in a particular direction. That fact has not been demonstrated. I have my suspicions, but that fact has not been demonstrated.
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10-06-2004, 03:08 PM
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Submitted to slashdot. It seems interesting enough to warrant AT getting hammered over.
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10-06-2004, 03:35 PM
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Submitted to slashdot by me, also. Retyped, added a few points and some links.
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10-06-2004, 03:44 PM
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Lifer
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Banned sites in europe are mainly to neo-nazi type groups that have been banned.
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And yet despite how oppressed the rich folks are, being rich remains a popular activity. And I bet you could search the rest of your life and not find a poor person who's staying poor because the tax breaks are so excellent.
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