Why Did Google Ban Winslow Homer?
Google flagged this small sketch of a Confederate soldier by the artist Winslow Homer as “dangerous or derogatory content.”
The artist's sketches of Confederate soldiers aren't “dangerous or derogatory content"—they're historical evidence.
Claudia Strauss-Schulson has been running Schulson Autographs, which sells historical documents like letters signed by presidents or a doodle by Marlon Brando, for around 15 years. Strauss-Schulson, speaking to me from Millburn, New Jersey, tells me she was “flabbergasted” when she got an alert that Google—her site is optimized for the search engine, me…
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