Most of Washington is aware of presidential-hopeful Rick Santorum‘s “Google problem” — which started with gay columnist Dan Savage encouraging the search engine’s users to link graphic sexual terms with the social conservative’s last name — but it seems the former senator from Pennsylvania isn’t taking the abuse lying down.
Google has argued in the past that keyword results and related searches are protected by the First Amendment, and people wanting offensive terms removed from their search results “should contact the webmaster of the page directly.” But Santorum told Politico that he feels Google could remove the unfortunate sexual neologism that pops up when his name is entered – but they won’t because of political bias. “I suspect if something was up there like that about Joe Biden, they’d get rid of it,” he said adding, “To have a business allow that type of filth to be purveyed through their website or through their system is something that they say they can’t handle but I suspect that’s not true.”
Meanwhile, the Dan “Savage attack” is far from over. The columnist relaunched his web campaign earlier this year to further slam Santorum’s namesake, this time encouraging people to Google-bomb his first name, too.
