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Google Controversy Regarding Michelle Obama November 25. 2009
Disrespectful, distorted photo of Michelle Obama Someone uploaded an offensive photo of U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, distorting her face to look like that of a monkey. It was meant to play into the disrespectful slur and stereotype, regarding black people allegedly looking like monkeys.
U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama Google removed the image from its search results, which was an unusual move. But then, they put the image back, referring to it as free speech and apologize for its offensiveness. The photo is on other sites, as some web users have made the photo into an avatar.
I find the photo racially disrespectful and unkind. There's nothing amusing about it. Yes, it is covered by the Constitution and as such is not unlawful, but sometimes people need to realize certain things aren't helpful to society as a whole. A racial attack on the First Lady is one of them. Google apologizes for offensive first lady image SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the first lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site. Google placed a text ad above the image titled "Offensive Search Results" that states "Sometimes our search results can be offensive. We agree." ... "We apologize if you've had an upsetting experience using Google," the company wrote...The Google letter says "a site's ranking in Google's search results relies heavily on computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a page's relevance to a given query."... This is not the first time Google has apologized for content in its search results. The company issued a similar response in 2004 when the top result for the term "Jew" pointed to an anti-Semitic Web site. Google won't exclude distorted Michelle Obama image from its site 'We have, in general, a bias toward free speech,' a Google spokesman says, explaining that offensiveness alone is not a reason to remove the image from the search index. A crudely altered photograph of Michelle Obama, which often comes up as the first result on a Google image search of her name, will not be removed from the company's search process despite protests that the depiction is racist and repugnant. "It's offensive to many people, but that alone is not a reason to remove it from our search index," Google Inc. spokesman Scott Rubin said Tuesday. "We have, in general, a bias toward free speech."... |
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