Google Censors Socialtext

Jonas Luster blogs in depth about how Google is censoring Socialtext under the label of Badware.

All in good fun, and we have, of course, filed a proper appeal.  And it isn't that StopBadware.org is a bad initiative.  My personal problem is I find a lot of truth in the above headline.  There is no report about Socialtext in StopBadware's database.  Yet, Google says we are in it.

Sounds like someone isn't fulfilling their mission, censoring an erstwhile competitor and while they may not be evil, they are acting badly.

Elsewhere: the road to hell is paved with good intentions

Linking is not a crime

While the above is all fun and good, we think we were censored because one of our public wikis enabled someone to attach and HTML file that contained a link to a site that has badware.

So, let's see if we can get Typepad censored by making the same link. (UPDATE: I removed the link because I don't really want to get Typepad in trouble and think my point is made)