Google Canada bans JewWatch
April 7th, 2006It seems as though Google is living up to it’s motto “Don’t be evil”, at least in some jurisdictions. Unfortunately, it took a legal request to get Google Canada to remove JewWatch from their search listings for the search term “Jew”. JewWatch still appears to be indexed in Google Canada, but their main page (i.e. JewWatch.com/index.htm) has been removed. If one does a search on Google.ca, they will notice that JewWatch.com is missing from the search results and if one scrolls to the bottom of the first page, they will see the note:
In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at ChillingEffects.org.
This note also comes up for the search terms “jew watch” and “jewwatch”. We had never heard of ChillingEffects before, but according to their site, their job is “monitoring the legal climate for Internet activity”. The detail given at the above link is extremely vague and the page interestingly mentions nothing about Canada. It is apparent that the German government has most actively tried to suppress the anti-Jewish JewWatch site, as anti-Semitism is a particularly touchy subject in Germany, for historical reasons.
Chilling Effects allows people to compare search results for Google.ca and Google.com for the search term used (in this case jew). Interestingly, Google.ca has not removed other anti-Jewish results - including links to an abridged version of the historical anti-Jewish texts “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” and “The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem” (the latter by Henry Ford). While Jew Watch is particularly vile, the Protocols and The International Jew are just as anti-Jewish and promoted by the same individuals, no doubt.
Looks like Google still has some work to do if they want to live up to their motto.