If you’ve recently run a google search on “Michelle Obama”, you’ve most likely come across the extremely offensive image of a Michelle’s face fused in with that of a monkey!! Outrageous. And it’s the first image that comes up too!
Although Google have since apologised, the California-based web giant refuse to remove the image!! SMDH.
Via BBC News:
A spokesman for Google, Scott Rubin, would not give details on how the image ended up as top result for the wife of President Barack Obama.
David Vise, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author of The Google Story, told the BBC that Google results get to the top based on popularity, not because of any ranking system used by the search engine.
He added: “If Google got a call from the White House telling them it’s against the law to have an offensive image of this kind which portrays the first lady in a racist manner as a monkey or an ape, then they would be obliged to take it down and I’m sure they would do so immediately.”
But he said it would be a “very slippery slope” if Google were to try to police the limits of free speech.
“Once you begin to block images, who is to say. It’s like the Supreme Court of the United States once said, ‘what is pornography?’ Well we can’t define it, but we know it when we see it.”
The White House has declined to comment.
On a more positive note, here’s President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, posing for pics at their first State Dinner at the White House last night, in honor of Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh and wife Mrs Gursharan Kaur…
Beautiful!
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