We had a bit of trouble finding an appropriate image for an earlier post: "Faggot Crackers Still Racist, Say Negro Nancies".

A rainbow flag seemed a bit trite, so we went on a mad search for the perfect visual compliment. Now, we use a variety of image sources, one of which is Google. As part of our quest, we googled "shame" to see if perhaps one of the correspondent images were suited to our desired aesthetic. They weren't...

We were intrigued, however, by the first image that popped up. What was it? Dive into the jump and find out. It's totally NSFW and even more perplexing....

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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.

Yow, seems like there's another gayish scandal brewing in Google's gaggle of websites. A few weeks ago, we reported on the search engine's alleged bias against gay sites. Today comes news that the company's blogspot hosts a Jamaica-based, anti-gay site, the not-so ingeniously entitled killybattyman: a corner of cyber-space headed by this lovely image.

Reporting on the digital scandal, Harry's Place wrote:

This is not a free speech issue. Incitement to murder shuts down the very exchange of ideas that free speech seeks to promote...

In the light of ongoing violent attacks against Jamaica's gay community - why is Google allowing its services to be used to incite murder by hosting this hate-site?

In addition to calling for the death of dick suckers (and, we imagine, carpet munchers), the site also takes on British gay activist, Peter Tatchell, insisting that if children are bad, "The Tatchell Man" will come for them. Not surprisingly, Tatchell's not so keen on the idea:

This website is sick and illegal. Inciting murder is a criminal offense. I am appalled that Google is hosting this site. It goes against their policy. Killbattyman fuels homophobic hatred and in Jamaica this hatred kills.

For its part, Google says that it will investigate and take appropriate measures if the site's deemed inappropriate.

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We realize that Google's Arabic translation tools are still in Beta, but we're happy that the folks at the Middle East Gay Journal spotted a big, fat mistake in the way it translates the word "gay." We'll have to take their word for it since we can't read the Arabic alphabet, but when the word "gay" is entered into the tool, it returns the result "luti," which comes from the name of the prophet "Lot" in the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah and basically means "sodomite."

While not as offensive as "fag," the word is still inappropriate and the Middle East Gay Journal started a letter-writing campaign that prompted Google to promise to fix the error, which they claimed was a result of using inaccurate online dictionaries.

Google vows to change derogatory gay translation [PinkNews]
Middle East Gay Journal [Official Site]

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[Multichannel News]

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