November 14, 2010
Not only is Google actively censoring *Sakineh Ashtiani* search reasults – they are censoring this site. Just now the search yielded only 239K results and 25 pages in not a single post of ours was listed. Prior to that we were routinely on the first page of results. What country is really running Google?
*Sakineh Ashtiani* Google search
Sept 21 3.7M results – Ahmadinejad’s initial comment
Sept 22 3.83M
Sept 25 3.8M
Word of Ms Ashtiani’s imminent execution was met with massive international protest Nov 1-3 and yet the search results decreased.
Nov 5 1.8M
Nov 7 2.25M
Nov 9 1.78M
Nov 13 1.89M
Nov 14 239K
Absolute proof of censorship.
And it’s the lowest number I’ve seen yet – which makes me wonder what the Islamic Republic of Iran has done to Ms Ashtiani and/or her son and lawyer. Facebook and Twitter accounts of folks associated with the Save Sakineh Campaign were deactivated and only after protest reactivated.
Also not a coincidence.
