Date sent: Mon, 05 May 2008 20:39:29 -0700
From: "Paradigm Research Group" <PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org>

Subject: Press Release - 5/6/08 - Google Censorship

PRG
Paradigm Research Group

May 6, 2008
Press Release
Google Censorship

Washington, DC - On April 30 PRG
published an Open Letter to Senator
Hillary Clinton regarding Laurance
Rockefeller's effort from March of 1993
through 1996 to convince her husband to
release all government held files
pertaining to UFOs and extraterrestrial
life. This letter was published to the
websites for PRG, American Chronicle,
OpEd News and the National Ledger. It
was also sent out to approximately 5000
television, radio, internet and print
media.

PRG web location for the Open Letter at:
www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Open_Lette
r_Clinton-Hillary.htm

PRG watched carefully as the pages
holding this open letter moved quickly
up the search engine results at Google
and Yahoo based on these search
criteria:

open letter to Senator Hillary Clinton
open letter to Senator Clinton open
letter to Hillary Clinton

Within 36 hours the PRG and American
Chronicle Open Letter to Senator Hillary
Clinton were at or near the top of both
the Google and Yahoo search results.

At that time the Google search returns
for the Open Letter to Senator Hillary
Clinton published by PRG were stripped
(or blocked) from the Google search
results. Fortunately, this did not
take place with the Yahoo search
results.

Efforts by PRG to reach Google to
determine why this had happened have
been fruitless.

Blocking the Google search engine from
listing the web pages which contain the
PRG Open Letter to Senator Hillary
Clinton is a pure act of political
censorship.

Given Google's behavior as regards its
presence in the People's Republic of
China - compliance with severe content
restrictions - this act of censorship
raises deeply serious questions.

First and foremost it raises the
question of what other pages containing
political speech not acceptable to
Google are being blocked from Google
search listings within the United
States?

PRG is seeking pro bono legal assistance
from 1st Amendment specialist attorneys
in order to open a dialogue with Google
to resove this matter.

Contact: Stephen Bassett
Executive Director
202-215-8344
PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org


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