(Star-Ledger)
March 1, 2013
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY– [Excerpt provided by Inclusion Daily Express] How would you feel if an internet search about your neurological condition produced a suggestion you be exterminated?
Autism activists have succeeded in getting Google to change the results of its automated search process so that offensive “hate speech” doesn’t routinely show up as a suggested match.
Until today, typing “Autistic people should . . . ” into Google’s search engine would produce four so-called “auto-complete” suggestions: that they “be killed,” “die,” or “be exterminated.”
In response, an autism activist group staged an online protest called a Flash Blog, which encouraged people with autism to counteract those violent suggestions with poetry and positive awareness of the developmental condition.
Another Flash Blog was scheduled for this Saturday, but Google today announced it would be cleaning up the automatic search results to eliminate results the company considers “hate speech,” said Jason Freidenfelds, a company spokesperson.
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Google eliminates ‘die’ search suggestion for autism
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