Google Caught Censoring Net, Says Hacker

An internet hacker claims to have caught Google in the act of deleting documents from its cache that showed Chinese gymnasts to be underage.

“Stryde.hax” uncovered more evidence that gold medal winner He Kexin is only 14 years, but information about the gymnast is fast disappearing from the Internet.

“Stryde.hax” identified He Kexin with the birth date January 1, 1994 in a cache on Baidu, the largest Chinese search engine. This would make her 14 years old and under the eligible age of 16 for Olympic competition. It is reported He Kexin's Chinese passport states her birthdate is January 1, 1992.

Google's cached copy of the spreadsheet does not contain Kexin's age record.

Stryde.hax says that all the documents personally unearthed, and that show He Kexin with the 1994 birthdate, have "gone down the memory hole."

"I ran my existing search string against google.cn. Interestingly, I got back two spreadsheet results."

But, after a couple of hours, stryde.hax tried the search again, and was surprised to find, "Expunged entirely from google.cn's search index is my original find."

Why bother removing the original documents if they were in fact false? stryde.hax asked, raising concerns of Internet censorship.

“At this point, I believe that any reasonable observer already understands that age records have been forged. This story now is really about Internet censorship, the act of removing evidence while at the same time claiming that the evidence is wrong. For the first time I watched search records shift under my feet like sand, facts draining down a hole in the Internet. Will this stand?”

Google has not responded to inquiries from the Epoch Times on the disappearance of the cached files.

Stryde.hax, a self-described consultant with security firm Intrepidus Group, had earlier posted a cached document: the “2006 Nationwide Gymnastics Registration Table,” which identifies He Kexin with the 1994 birthdate.

On the more recent documents, she is also clearly identified as the winner or ‘first note’, casting away doubt that the 14 year old He Kexin might be a different girl.*continues*