Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Google and the Olympics

August 3, 2016




That's a picture of the search section of the first page of Google today.






That's a picture of the first part of the second page of Google's publication about favelas.


This is what Google doesn't seem to be talking about:






That's the address for the pages of results for a Google search of the term "forced evictions for Rio Olympics."



This is the address for a 2007 report by The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, called "Fair Play for Housing Rights, Mega-Events, Olympic Games and Housing Rights, Opportunites for the Olympic Movement and Others."

For decades, people have lost their homes because the governments of the host countries for large sporting events evict them and tear down their houses.




Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, August 3, 2016 @ 10:38 a.m.