Re:RIDICULOUS... (Score 2, Insightful)

There are thousands of sites out there hosting insulting pictures of george bush, some where he looks like a monkey or is compared to one and some where he's likened to adolf hitler...

...because there are countless other derogatory pictures of famous people out there.

And all of them are able to be taken down under Google's "offensive images" policy. Go to http://images.google.com/ and search for anything. Now scroll down to the bottom - note the "Report Offensive Image" button? This allows people to report images which they consider offensive - such as pictures of Michelle Obama as a monkey, or George Bush as Adolph Hitler.

In all honesty, when I first saw this story I thought "What? How can they justify doing that - surely it's against free speech?". That was before I actually went to Google's site, saw their offensive images button and read the policy. Now I agree with their decision, but unfortunately it seems that this is one more issue that will be blown up beyond belief simply because it involves two famous 'people' - Michelle Obama, and Google.