It's 1984 at Google

[F6Dave]

Sometime last week, Dr. Patrick Moore became an 'unperson' on Google.  For years when you searched for the 'founders of Greenpeace', Google showed photos and names that included Dr. Moore.  But late last week, his name and photo disappeared.  This is reminiscent of being 'unpersoned', part of the Newspeak in Orwell's 1984.

Patrick Moore was a founding member of Greenpeace in 1971, and later became president of Greenpeace Canada.  But in the 1980s he became disillusioned as the organization became more political and less scientific.  He left after Greenpeace campaigned to ban the worldwide use of chlorine, even in pharmaceuticals and to sanitize drinking water.

In recent years Moore has angered many on the left by challenging the climate change narrative.  But the last straws for Google may have been when he called AOC a pompous little twit, and when Trump quoted him in a tweet.  Here's some detail:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/google_goes_orwell_erasing_picture_of_climate_dissident_founder_from_history_of_greenpeace.html

https://www.cfact.org/2019/03/17/greenpeace-and-google-disappear-dr-patrick-moore/

[bscrive]

Years ago when Bush was president and Condoleezza Rice was being considered for Secretary of State.  I looked up her name and saw some photos of her in college.  A few weeks later, I went to show those pictures to a colleague of mine, but was unable to find the photos.  I even clicked on the links in my browser history, but nothing came up.

[Serk]

Heh, if you wanna see a good example of the tweaking Google does, go to Google Images and do a search on "White American Family"

https://images.google.com/

[Hook#3287]

Heh, if you wanna see a good example of the tweaking Google does, go to Google Images and do a search on "White American Family"

https://images.google.com/

Then google "Black American Family"

[DirtyDan]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole

Relevant ?

Dan

[Oss]

  was the 3rd pic

WTF with the black family?   Is that worse than racist??

[Alpha Dog]

I did not realize Laura Trump was so tall.  I think Eric is 6' 6".  Must be an older pic. as Kimberly Guilfolye is not with Don Jr.

[JimC]

I wonder where Baron was for that pic?

Jim