My son decided to make brownies last night. Since he is of the Google generation, the thought of a cook book never crossed his mind. Instead, he headed right to his laptop and searched for brownie recipe .
Imagine my surprise when he asked me why Google was suggesting adding weed to his brownies. I consider myself pretty liberal as a parent and I don’t fault Google for returning porn if my child enters a keyword that calls for porn, but I really don’t want them suggesting adding drugs to dessert.
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You got it all wrong! Google advocates eating grass in brownies, smoking that stuff will cause irreparable damage to your lungs and that is evil!
Lol… typical Google-ness. As to Google returning porn in results to kids… that’s not likely something that should be encouraged, givent the high potential for addiction in kids. I was just reading a case, Caputo v Imperial Tobacco, and found this quotation:
““The plaintiffs claim that the defendants engaged in advertising, media, and public relations campaigns designed to increase their sales, which explicitly or implicitly denied all health-related consequences of consuming their products. Further, they allege that the defendants targeted children and young adults, as the defendants’ own research indicated that 90% of smokers begin to smoke before age 18 and that it was unlikely for a person to start smoking after the age of 19.””