Google: the Mrs Crumplebottom of the internet

An article on the sydney morning herald website named 'google launches new censorship tool' (September 22, 2010) provides an insight on the other side of the censorship spectrum. While the nation of Australia is constantly being threatened with the 'clean feed' internet filter, google has released an online tool which shows where major internet services and products such as youtube and facebook are being blocked around the globe. 

While I'm all for the unveiling of the evil internet censorship trolls, it seems that google isn't able to make up it's mind when it comes to oppressing the masses. 

When the 'Great Firewall of China' was constructed to rid the public of debauchery such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, google was like the desperate fat friend, eager to please with no self respect. Thus google 'The Eunuch Edition' was born. Ridding the internet of simple social networking site so the masses could enrich their lives with access to a wide selection of porn. 

After this unholy alliance was formed, it seems that google has had a change of heart and in January 2010, withdrew its support and consent of the internet censorship in China, and in September released this new worldwide censorship tool. David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer and mouthpiece states that it's reasoning for 'outing' countries with blocked content is "When Google's services are blocked or filtered, we can't serve our users effectively. That's why  we act every day to maximise free expression and access to information." 

Sorry google, this sounds like a load of shizer to me. 

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-launches-new-censorship-tool-20100922-15lp0.html