Friday, April 10, 2009

Whitehall to train pro-West Islamic groups to game Google

Whitehall officials will train pro-West Islamic groups to manipulate their Google search ranking in an attempt to drown out extremist voices online, The Register has learned. The policy is being developed despite recent warnings from a group of international experts on radicalisation that such strategies are likely to be ''largely ineffectual''. (Snip) It wants to ''flood the internet'' with ''positive'' interpretations of Islam.

[I think it's a capital idea, and exactly what's been missing in this cultural contest {contestation}]

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