25 JUNE 2005, Page 20

Sex and Google

From Jonathan Mirsky

Sir: I add to the Google debate so well described by John Naughton (‘The engine that runs the world’, 18 June). As of today there are 7,110,000 references to ‘children, sex, photographs’ (which I didn’t open), many of which advertise ‘free sex pictures’ and the like. Google’s motto is ‘Do no harm.’ When I wrote to Google some time ago noting that such pictures are a crime in the UK and must be scenes of torture as well, they answered, ‘We don’t censor.’ But they have removed items to which Beijing objected.

Jonathan Mirsky London W11