Sounds like Google is catching some heat for their refusal to pull down some allegedly racist blogs on their services. They are claiming they won’t do it without a court order.
Good.
It’s not the place of a hosting company to decide which content they agree with or which they might find offensive. Free speech trumps hate speech. As pointed out in one of the Slashdot comments, racist speech can be countered with other speech. Censorship can’t be countered.
As a footnote, this is the first time I’ve seen a story on Slashdot in a long time that hadn’t been beaten to death in the blogosphere over the previous few days.
