Google Search Takes Aim At Anti-Gay Russian Olympics

Russian president Valdimir Putin isn’t the only person to flex major muscle at the opening of Russia’s Olympic games. Now the corporations have been declared people, too, by the US Supreme Court, Google is taking an impossible not to notice stand on Russia’s anti-gay policies. Will these two testosterone-infused giants go head-to-head or co-exist in a Mexican standoff?

Today’s ever-changing Google search page daily doodle carries this images of the Olympic games created in the rainbow colors of the LGBT movement.Below the search box is a quote from the Olympic Charter. It reads:

The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak recently advised both spectators and athletes not to promote gay rights during the Olympics. The mayor of Sochi, home of the Olympic games, said last month that the city was devoid of gay people. Perhaps they were deported?

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon addressed the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and also offerred support to the LGBT community, saying that “Many professional athletes, gay and straight, are speaking out against prejudice.”

The same Google search page is operating in Russia. Will the censors take it down? Stay tuned.