[WCUSP] Action Alert! Google Censors uruknet !

[yvonne simmons]

--- sdyck at hevanet.com wrote:

> From: <sdyck at hevanet.com>
> To: "Aseel Nasir Dyck" <sdyck at hevanet.com>
> Subject: Fw: Action Alert! Google Censors uruknet !
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:10:11 -0800
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> uruknet.info
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: UrukNet 
> To: Aseel Nasir Dyck 
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:51 PM
> Subject: Action Alert! Google Censors uruknet !
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>           uruknet.info 
>         ???????.????
>       :: information from occupied iraq 
>       :: informazione dall'iraq occupato 
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>             Action Alert! 
>             Google did it again! (updated) 
>             UruknetOn January 12, 2007 Google has
> stopped indexing Uruknet.info as a news source We
> wrote to Google News and this is their reply: Thank
> you for your message. We apologize for the
> confusion, we've reviewed your site again and are
> unable to include it in Google News at this time.
> They are unable? and for which reason? Of course
> there isn't any technical reason, because
> Google.news have been indexing Uruknet up to five
> days ago and although old pages are still available,
> there has been no update since then. The only
> "technical reason" is censorship.We rewrote to
> Google.news and their reply was even more cryptic:
> Although we're unable to provide specific
> information at this time, we sincerely appreciate
> your interest in Google News and your willingness to
> provide us with your content. (...) This isn't the
> first time that Google discontinues indexing
> Uruknet. On February 18, 2005, Google.news removed
> Uruknet.info as a news source, apparently thanks to
> Michelle Malkin's protestations only to reinstate
> them - following many complaints sent in by our
> readers (...) As our readers know, we never carried
> out campaigns neither for fund-raising nor for any
> other kind of aid. Although we've been able to
> provide, in spite of sacrifice, for maintenance and
> safeguard of Uruknet and mirroring websites, and
> although we succeeded, notwithstanding such a great
> deal of problems, to face all damages caused by
> hacking attacks, now Google's censorship risks to be
> a blo! w too ha rd to ward off. We therefore kindly
> request our readers to write to Google asking
> Uruknet.info to be reinstated as a news source....
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>                   Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=29907
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