8 years ago
Google bans plug-in that picks out Jews
Google has banned an extension of its Chrome browser which was being used to identify Jewish names on the internet by surrounding them with three sets of brackets, or parentheses. Those identified were then subjected to anti-semitic abuse via social media. The symbol has been described as a secret signal because punctuation does not show up in ordinary web searches. Google said that the extension was blocked from its store because it broke its hate speech rules.
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