In the late 1930′s and early-to-mid 1940′s, I daresay few, if any, BBC radio broadcasts were being played over Nazi Germany’s state-controlled radio networks. The same concept can be applied to the NATO radio propaganda network which attempted to entice soviet defectors during the Cold War.

Google isn’t foolish. It is in business to make money; and no multi-billion dollar corporation likes to see its good name marred by anything less than courtroom dominance, the price of the stock may drift downward a penny or two, and that just won’t do. So Google went on the offensive, and is likely in the process of removing any mention of any settlement from its search parameters.

Corporate censorship isn’t new. Matt Groeing once took a comedic jab at his boss, Rupert Murdoch (grand-high-poo-bah of the evil NewsCorp/FOX right-wing media empire). In an episode of “The Simpsons”, during a segment of Springfield Tonight, the scroll at the bottom of the screen read “Rupert Murdoch confirms homosexual tendencies”, or some such nonsense. A playful jab at the boss, which led to the firing of the management people who approved the joke, and a severe reprimand to Groeing. Seth McFarlane took a few swings at FOX as a network during Family Guy’s second season, and was rewarded with a cancellation notice.

In the end, the more reliant people are on the internet as a source of information, the more power those who control the information have.

I am pretty sure it is this post of yours that has brought them back: there is a link next to them in the index, with the link text ‘Reference’, which links to a search result with this page of yours on it.

My post of 12th August with the original link to my paper is currently on page two of the search results for the term ‘google book settlement’.

It will be interesting to see how long my posts survive in the index this time. I am still quite suspicious about the way they disappeared, when earlier posts of mine were still in the index.