TLF readers may have heard that Google was craftily censoring my free-market colleagues at the Progress & Freedom Foundation.  Our good friend and invaluable TLF commenter Richard Bennett blogged over  the weekend about how Google seemed to block access to our site when he tried to search for “net neutrality.”

This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. Google is blocking net neutrality documents from the PFF’s web site, but documents in the same format that deal with other subjects are not flagged “dangerous.”

This is really outrageous, and a clear example of the problem with a monopoly gatekeeper.

This story made the rounds this morning and much of the DC Internet policy community was atwitter with allegations of censorship by Google.  But as I explain in the comment I tried (unsuccessfully) to post on Richard’s blog, this is all an innocent and unfortunate misunderstanding: Continue reading →

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