Just when I think I have seen it all, something interesting struck me in the news about Google. In a recent article in Slate, there is a discussion going on about how some conservative groups and websites are angry that Google has chosen to ignore holidays such as Memorial Day in its logos, instead giving attention to events like the Persian New Year.

I wonder myself many times how the same Internet that can be used to bring all of us together can be seen as a bad thing. Apparently there is a line drawn on an issue of what is a corporation’s responsibility and if they are not allowed to express their own political agenda or not. Conservatives are angry because Google picks and chooses what events they have chosen to celebrate by changing their logo, but is that not their right?

One of the biggest controversies has been over last year’s Independence Day logo, where instead of the traditional American eagle clutching arrows, it was portrayed clutching olive branches. The National Review Online writer Kathryn Jean Lopez posted a user comment to the site’s Corner blog section, which stated that Google could not “bring themselves to do something ‘American’ without making some kind of signal about current policy.”

When did it become such a bad thing to promote peace? How is that promoting any type of agenda? Many believe that because Google is such a popular site world wide that they do not have the right to express any political agenda at all, but are they really fair at all to say? In a nation where most American’s are currently against the current policy of our government, Google is not promoting a current agenda, but more so expressing the views of the majority of the world.

Celebrating events from other parts of the world such as Bastille Day in France or the Persian New Year is a great idea. It brings the world closer together. What Google will place in its homepage logos  this year is anyone’s guess, but it should not really matter anyway. Google has the right to celebrate whatever events they wish to. In fact, it is written in the Constitution. It is not hard to find, just look in the first part of the document.