The technological gods at Google have reached a judgement concerning anti-gay Jamaican blog, killbattyman. Under fire from gay activists and media outlets (including this one), the popular search engine and all-around phenomenon has decided to disinherit the Jamaica-based blog. Among the homophobic harangues, one could find more than a few requests for British activist Peter Tatchell‘s head.
Tatchell lauded the company’s ruling, but made sure to take a not-so-civil swipe:
Thanks to…everyone else who lobbied Google to remove this murderous website. It is good that Google has heard our concerns but bad that it took them so long to respond. If this website had been advocating the killing of black or Jewish people, I am certain that Google would have taken a much tougher stand and removed it much sooner.
For their part, Google insists they acted as fast as they could. We tend to believe them. The scandal didn’t explode until late last week, after all.
javier
There are a lot of blogs antigay ! 🙁
alan brickman
dudes. if you trample all over free speech…we’re not going to know who the assholes are….
Ben
I don’t think Google should have ever gotten into the business of censorship, but since they have already ruined the precedent … good decision?
Mark
I don’t agree with some of you. When someone is posting threats in a site like killbattyman it goes beyond free speech and taking the site down is not censorship. As goofy as some of the content appeared for many people, it is serious in other parts of the world and there are probably plenty in the USA that would take it seriously.
Paul Raposo
Considering the amount of violoence against GLBT Jamaicans is all too real, I think it was a good idea to shut the site down. It was just adding fule to an already out of control fire.
Chris
Awesome. I looked at the site and it was infuriating. This makes me deliriously happy. Maybe they’ll all drop dead now.
Frank
Thank you Queerty for highlighting this terrible blog.
What struck me were the links top right
viz:-
Links & Useful Tools
* + Heckler & Koch
* + Kill like a Jew: The Uzi
* + Catch dem and light dem!
* + Smith & Wesson
* + Drive over them!
Kill like a Jew must be antisemitic surely!
I e-mailed all I could at Google and within a short time it was removed along with the other blog http://killbattyman.typepad.com/my_weblog/
this has also gone.
As for boycotting Jamaica or Jamaican goods
I don’t agree. We need to teach them sexual and racial tollerance.
Far better to book holiday resorts on Jamaica and then in a couple of days cancel
stating that I couldn’t possible visit a country that was so backwards.
keep up the great work and hello from
London UK
TigerHawk
I believe all GLBT people should be killed, they don’t deserve to be alive.Now , not only is DISGUSTING when you see gays kissing each other( at least), but how the hell can you expect adopted children to be raised by a “family” of gay. And , if you are Christian, you know there is NO such thing as family when you are talking about gay couples.I wonder why are there so many f….g supporters of gays? Are they idiots? Or what? I think the people who gave gays anti-discrimination laws are missing something in their brain, cos I don’t think they were doing the right thing.
Hmm, I wonder what will happen if only gays and s..t like this will live on Earth.It’s just plain stupidity to allow gays to marry and to adopt kids.
I hope the Church will take a tough stand against this, but I doubt will have too much luck.
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AJ
There’s an article up at http://www.plublogs.com about google’s adsense program – and how they (and other sites) seem to be getting screwed over.. bit damn dodgy if it’s all accurate!