Google Censors Searches Involving Israeli Double Agent, Boris Krasny
▻http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/12/07/google-censors-searches-involving-israeli-double-agent-boris-kra
Israel’s democracy watchdog, 7th Eye, reports that Google’s Israel subsidiary, Google.co.il, is censoring search results related to Boris Krasny, the Israeli double agent originally recruited by the KGB in the 1970s. Krasny exploited his status as a Soviet agent in Israel to betray Russia’s longest-serving and most valuable spy in Israel, Marcus Klingberg. Neither of these facts, based on original reporting first published here, may be reported by the Israeli media. In fact, Globes credited me by name for reporting the story (without mentioning my blog name, Krasny’s name, or linking to my stories) and the military censor forced the removal of the article. An earlier 7th Eye article by the same reporter didn’t even mention my name. It attributed reports about Krasny’s identity to “foreign bloggers.”
But this new development is both ominous and (almost) unprecedented. As 7th Eye describes it, multiple searches involving Krasny’s name displayed messages noting that the results had been censored due to a “legal request”.