The mighty promoter of the free Internet for all, freedom of expression and the like, has made a significant change to the way it displays explicit images in its image search. reddit users, and not only them, are in disbelief, and their concerns about censorship attracted immediate media attention. While Google denies intent of censorship, users can no longer find porn easily with Google image search. The ability to turn SafeSearch on and off on Google image search is now replaced with “filter explicit images” and “report offensive images.”
Google image results for a common sex act are funny and far from porn. But when you “filter explicit images” this particular search will show no results.
Some more innocent queries like “boob” (a term listed in any English dictionary) will not return any results with “filter explicit images” on – a silly thing if you consider the first definition of the term: a stupid awkward person. Only the second definition of the term refers to a woman’s breast. One could argue that Google image search is now broken, if “boob” will not show any results when SafeSearch is active. This is just one of the many examples we could use to make the point.
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