It goes by other names of course, such as 1 quality control, filtering, relevance ranking, and acquisition policies. But every time a controversial issue emerges or a non-player seeks to join the game, the hurdles and obstacles that arise could evoke the charge of censorship. These days, however, no one who can walk and chew digital gum could fail to find some way of getting their content onto the biggest information delivery service of all time, i.e., the internet and its web. It's not that they won't be online; it's where they'll be online. Will Google find them? Probably yes. But will Google push their content to page one of the 1,358,472 million search results displayed? Probably not. And if it's scholarship you're looking for (round one of the censorship/quality game), you better pop up in Google Scholar or Google Books.
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