*Civil rights leaders on Monday, May 28 demanded that Google CEO Gundar Pichai rescind Google’s racial censorship policy. Google rejected two YouTube promotional videos for the forthcoming book, “Black Lives Do Matter,” by noted author and political analyst and EURweb contributor/columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson.
Google called the promo for the book “dangerous and derogatory.” It claimed that it violated its standards against inciting hate and violence.
The book is a social and historical analysis of racial stereotypes and racial injustice and violence against African-Americans published by a respected African-American owned publisher, Middle Passage Press.
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Hutchinson and other civil rights leaders charged that Google’s policy of racial censorship of African-American issues sets a dangerous precedent and is an overreaction to the backlash it got from Trump and conservatives to its firing of right-wing engineer/writer James Damore in August 2017.
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“Google’s unilateral decision to reject advertising and YouTube promos for an important new assessment of the Black Lives Matter movement and the issues of racial stereotyping and racial conflict,” says Hutchinson,” in response to conservative pressure sends the doubly dangerous message that censorship is alive and well and that Google has slammed the door on a pointed discussion of the issues of race and racism.”
Civil rights leaders called for a meeting with Google CEO Pichai. They will demand that Google to rescind its racial censorship policy.
source:
Pedro Baez
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