Google Wants To Save News Sites And Blogs From Government Blockades For Free
Google Ideas, recently renamed Jigsaw, is opening Project Shield to applications from any “independent” news site—in other words, one that’s not owned by a government or political party. Large corporate sites qualify although the focus is on small news websites. In 2011, a whistle blowing website in Uganda radiokatwe.com was blocked after a stern government bombardment castigating it for publishing politically sensitive content. News sites and blogs with such politically charged content can have such a predicament when government agencies decimate access under the infamous line – orders from above....