Michelle Obama Pic
The wife of the President of the United States, Michelle Obama, appears in a distorted image of herself that appears on the google image search page. The image which shows, when the term “Michelle Obama” is searched for is a distorted picture of the first lady made to look like a monkey. The offensive picture has also been posted on a blog called “Hot Girls” which contains normal pictures of Michelle Obama.
Google earlier removed a site which also showed distorted images of Obama, but the reasoning behind the removal was due to malware and not because of the images.
When asked about the pictures Google Inc said the images will not be removed from the database, even if they were deemed as “racist and repugnant”.
A spokesperson for Google Inc. mentioned that they would need more reason to remove such pictures, then it to appear “offensive to some people”. He continued saying, “We have in general a bias towards free speech”. Up until now the image has not been removed from it’s search, although it has been put on Google’s “offensive search result.” Even adding click ad’s above the picture , it reads, “We assure you that the views expressed by such sites are not in any way endorsed by Google.” While also offering an apology, stating: “you’ve had an upsetting experience using Google”.
Google has also in the past had scandal with it’s search list, and measures were taken to avoid negative publicity. In 2004, a search for the term Jew came up with the top result of an “anti-Semitic site”.
Michelle La Vaughn Obama was born in 1964, and is the wife of Barack Obama the forty-fourth President of the United States, she is the first ever African-American First Lady.