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Censorship on the web

As Par Tame | 26.08.2006 22:57 | Bio-technology | Health

I was just searching for some info on a sweetner called Sucralose. The page I wanted from Google "There have been no long-term human toxicity studies published until after the FDA approved sucralose for human consumption. Following FDA approval a human ..." came up with "Attorneys acting on behalf of the manufacturers of sucralose, Tate & Lyle PLC based in London, England, have requested that the information contained on this page not be made available to Internet users in England."

Is this new for corporations to be blocking information on the web? It's interesting that they can block specific info for the UK.

This is the google search
 http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2005-17,RNWE:en&q=Sucralose

This is the censored page

 http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_uk.htm

As Par Tame

Comments

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  1. Read it in the Internet Archive — searcher
  2. Censorship, what censorship? — Self-censor...
  3. Legal Censorship — Previously Cnsored
  4. Try these — searcher
  5. hypocrisy — hypocrisy