Google Censorship Initiative Thwarted by ‘Gee! No Evil!’ Add-On

Earlier this year Google launched a piracy blacklist and began filtering keywords from its Instant and Autocomplete services. A necessary measure to counter online copyright infringement according to the search giant, but not everyone agrees. To partially undo Google’s censorship efforts, the MAFIAA Fire team has now released the Gee! No evil! Firefox add-on.

When Homeland Security’s ICE unit started seizing domain names last year, a group called MAFIAA Fire decided to code a browser add-on to redirect the affected websites to their new domains.

A perfect illustration of John Gilmore’s famous quote: The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it — via redwolf.newsvine.com