Friday, October 14, 2005

Israel is the second most advance hi-tech country in the world, but ...

Just before Yom Kippur, I wanted to do some research into the Kol Nidre prayer, so I did a Google search on the phrase. I am appalled at the number of viciously anti-Semitic websites that come up within the first two pages of the Google result. Go and see for yourself. And the prominence of these results means that they are frequently visited (that's what brings them up in the Google sequence). Many of them are old - a typical example is an editorial in the Dearborn Independant (home of Henry Ford) from 1922 - and they're still being being read today! Someone, somewhere is taking the time, trouble and expense to keep this excrement prominent in the public domain.

Now, it's not Google's fault. But surely, somewhere in the myriad of high-tech junkies here in Israel, there must be people who know how to hack into public websites and either kill them, swamp them, or block them. If you're out there, and you know how to do it, then you have a duty to clean this filth from the public airways.