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Google Removes Encyclopedia Dramatica Link

Posted by Raymond on January 23, 2010

From ZDNET Australia:

Google has agreed to remove from its search index links to a satirical website that allegedly promotes racist views of indigenous Australians.

Aboriginal man Steve Hodder-Watt recently discovered the US-based site by searching “Aboriginal and Encyclopedia” in the search engine. He tried to modify the entry on Encyclopedia Dramatica, a satirical version of Wikipedia, but was blocked from doing so.

Encyclopedia Dramatica describes itself as a satirical version of Wikipedia.

Hodder-Watt then undertook legal action, that resulted in Google removing the offensive site from its listings. However the site itself remains available by navigating directly to it.

His lawyer, George Newhouse, said the site was “one of the most offensive sorts of racial vilification you could possibly find”. “It portrays indigenous Australians in the most unsavoury light possible, and you wouldn’t want a child stumbling across it,” he told ABC Radio.

[Read more at ZDNET Australia]

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  • Aronomous

    Search Aboriginal Encyclopedia in Google. Google lies.

  • dumbsaint

    thats probably one of the tamer entries on ED – though I doubt it will stay that way much longer

  • Word Eater

    Holy shirt, man! Try reading the entry on 'rape' and see how offended you get from that.

    My dear god, Hodder-Watt, you have no idea what you've stumbled in to.

  • anon.

    Google and Australia successfully trolled?

  • tonyviner

    It sounds like it might have been funny, albeit offensive. I am a huge fan of racial humor but it is a difficult thing to make use of because I am white. N-words be trippin'.

  • naomi94

    I do not like racism…but censorship? Come on…that is total bullshit. I cannot believe Google Australia did that

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/NaomiChambers Naomi Chambers

    I saw the Encyclopedia Dramatica Entry on the Aboriginees, it was offensive but Google should not have agreed to this censorship

  • naomi94

    I saw the Encyclopedia Dramatica Entry on the Aboriginees, it was offensive but Google should not have agreed to this censorship