Censorship

[captpackrat]

The US government is censoring Google Maps/Google Earth.

Try looking up Washington DC. The Capitol building is nothing but a blur, and the White House has a plain, flat brown roof. Several other buildings are blurred out or have solid color roofs. There are other "omissions" that I've found, like the artificial oil pump islands in Long Beach Harbor. The labels are there (in Google Earth), but the islands are missing.

Oddly enough, the Pentagon is there in all its glory, without censorship. As is Cheyenne Mountain. I guess oil is more important than the military. But then again, we've known this for several years now....

Comments

[nicodemusrat.livejournal.com]

This isn't new. Ever since satellite photos became easily publicly accesible, the government has been altering certain buildings. It's probably that Google's source of images had this alteration. It sucks but it's not too surprising.

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

*snickers* about the camouflaged oil rigs in urban areas.
Do you really need oil that badly? I guess so. Eep!

[kaysho.livejournal.com]

It does make you wonder why possible level of detail one could get off the Capitol Building that couldn't simply be observed from the ground ...