Personalized Search and Google Censorship
June 21st, 2018 — 11:21am
Recently a friend told me that all results were removed from Google for searches related to current Serbia’s leader Aleksandar Vucic (AV) and Serbia’s neighbours Croats.
AV used to say many bad things in regards to Croats during the wars in ’90s, and since he is pro EU oriented, this localized censorship can be perceived as an attempt to ‘help’ forget the past and love thy neighbour.
Very interesting case of censorship. For a query from Belgrade, Serbia, Google returns 63 results only for a phrase in Serbian language aleksandar vucic hrvati, while quarter of a million of results for English language query where ‘hrvati’ is substituted with ‘croats’: aleksandar vucic croats.
