Many have long worried about government control of the Internet.  After all, for all the latter’s faults — and it is a purveyor of cultural poison — it’s also a great medium through which to disseminate truth.

Ironically, though, the current threat to the free flow of ideas lies not with Big Brother but big business.

Whether it’s AT&T’s support of homosexual causes or CVS’
withdrawal of support from the Boy Scouts, the fact is that
corporations respond to politically correct pressure.  They really only
care about the bottom line, after all, so pandering to the spirit of
the age suits them fine.  And Google is Exhibit A in this phenomenon.

Last year, Google capitulated
to communist Chinese pressure in establishing its new service in China,
Google.cn, and agreeing to censor itself.  So don’t expect big
business, even if it is American in name, to be a steadfast warrior
against tyranny.

Really, though, this is the least of Google’s sins.  The corporation
is more than just a money-hungry leviathan; it is also a thoroughly
leftist entity that funds liberal causes and gleefully suppresses
politically incorrect dissent.  As to the funding, 98 percent of
Google’s employees’ donations go to Democrat causes.  (Shouldn’t the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigate this?  Is it just a
coincidence that virtually everyone who works for the company is a
liberal?)

As for the suppression, if you’re a news hound or politics wonk with
a computer, you might have noticed that you can’t seem to find some of
your favorite sites in Google News.  And this American Thinker piece, by Marc and Noel Sheppard, details the problem well.  Among other things, it points out that sites such as MichNews.com, the New Media Journal and the Jawa Report, conservative outlets all, were banished from Google News.  All of them received the following message from Google:

"Upon recent review, we’ve found that your site contains hate speech, and we will no longer be including it in Google News."

What, in particular, was their transgression?  They all ran articles critical of Islam.

Well, as the mosque lady might say, "Isn’t that special?"

It’s reprehensible that Google is behaving traitorously and carrying
water for Islamists.  Moreover, it’s hypocritical since the search
engine’s mission is, as the American Thinker piece relates it:

"To construct a totally unbiased news engine, based on a principle of
human nonintervention, fully automated both in its gathering and
editing of news."

Google’s censorship is a betrayal of this principle.  And, more
outrageously, it doesn’t seem like they have any problem whatsoever with
all the smut peddlers in their database.

Now, don’t misunderstand me, as a non-governmental entity, I support
Google’s right to discriminate in any way it wishes.  But, please,
let’s dispense with the pretense of impartiality.  People who use
Google expect a real search engine that delivers what they’re looking
for, not just what Google wants them to see.                                        

Important — How to Strike Back at Google

What is the answer?  Hit them in the pocketbook.  Remember that
Google makes a mint off pay-per-click advertising; I’m talking about
all those "Sponsored Links" you see at the top and right side of their
pages.  Every time you click on one of those advertisements, Google
makes a certain amount of money.  And avoiding filling their coffers is
easy: Instead of clicking on the link, simply copy the URL at the bottom of the advertisement and paste it into your browser bar.  This way, you can access the sites without enriching this leftist search engine.

I’ve been doing this for a while and I enjoy it.  It’s but a quick
extra step, and I know that I’m using Google, instead of it using me.