[LennonCook]

Originally posted by Yorick: Along with free speech I'm also an advocate for freedom of choice regarding publicity. Just as a website owner should be free to say what they want, so should a search engine owner be free to link or not link what it wants. Why should freedom only be applied to one group of people and not others? Why should a person or group be forced to publicise a view they do not hold? With freedom comes responsibility.

I agree completely.
Google is a public service in the way that anyone can get to it. That doesn`t mean that the owner has to like, nor accept, everything that`s submitted.

It is the same situation as here at IW- anyone can get here, it is thus a public service (even though it`s privately owned); but there are rules. Ziroc as the webmaster has the final word on what threads stay and what threads go- he censors the forum at his discretion; and noone has any right to stop him- if we don`t like the way he works, we don`t come here.
Relating that back to google, the webmaster has the final say on what (s)he will allow to be in the database, (s)he has the right to censor the search engine, and noone has any right to stop it. If we don`t like the censorship, we just won`t use it as a search engine anymore.
Censorship of a site is the right, and often duty, of any webmaster.