Reporter details pressure from Google and bosses to take down 2011 Forbes post criticizing Google practices with Plus and search; Google says info was under NDA
What if we formed a human chain to let people … Jon Martindale / Digital Trends : Journalist claims Google used strong-arm tactic to get story taken down Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing : Forbes removed article critical of Google after it asked nastily Brian Feldman / New York Magazine : Monopoly Means They Can Crush You Without Even Noticing Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Reporter: Google successfully pressured me to take down critical story Ellen Tannam / Silicon Republic : Critics of Google are speaking up after ousting of US think tank head Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search : Google and Information: Another Aberration or Genuine Insight?? Tweets: Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon : I've had so many great editors who got irate calls about stuff I wrote and never told me. http://www.wired.com/... http://twitter.com/... Josh Marshall / @joshtpm : Indeed. This whole thing is embarrassing. As an editor you need to shield your people from attacks and pressure. Always. http://twitter.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : Agree. And I've heard other reporters suggest the same thing about Google pressure. And trade pubs don't even go there. It's a problem. http://twitter.com/... Kashmir Hill / @kashhill : Google sent along a much longer email with its tick-tock of what happened. See update at end: http://gizmodo.com/... Dan Goodin / @dangoodin001 : The pressure Google put on @kashhill to unpublish a story in 2011 reminds me of the run-in @elinormills had in 2005 http://www.wired.com/... Charles Arthur / @charlesarthur : Think a lot of tech journalists have probably had experiences like @kashhill's. http://gizmodo.com/... http://twitter.com/... Peter Kafka / @pkafka : @hunterwalk @nickwingfield (also the part where a reporter attends a product+biz team meeting and then writes about it is a little sticky) David Kurtz / @tpm_dk : “Google is so big and so powerful that even when it's trying to do something good, it can be dangerous and frightening.” http://twitter.com/... Tim O'Reilly / @timoreilly : I hate the linkbait title, but the bit at the end highlights challenge of algorithmically managed platforms http://talkingpointsmemo.com/ ... via @TPM Thanks: @cremnob See also Mediagazer