Possible internet regulation of degree selling diploma mills?

[Virtual Bison]

Not the legal kind judges can agree need to stay in, but the illegal kind any judge would outlaw. It has been shown in past cases that judges have seen selling a degree a criminal act. Blot out the outright degree sellers, life experience scams, etc. on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and the problem is gone.

Surely the combined power of the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. can compel judges to request, show significant evidence of harm, and compel such three entities to stop making them a National Security Issue.

I believe Google does reserve the power to regulate at least a little of the internet. Google China does. If the lawsuits come, just dismiss and begone on issues of National Security as judges already do on behalf of Google and Co.

Poof, Gone!

Top down measures are the first step. If the second kind of phony remains, as it will, they'll be more ambiguous compared to tens of thousands of other such legitimate colleges. They'll be forced to turn into competency based approaches or whatever, maybe even allowing them to pass and fail, as it seems some of the more ethical operators do, and it will actually be a legitimate, legal, degree.

Sounds like censorship to me. If search engines like Google want to do it they can. But I would ask what constitutes "selling" a degree and having legitimate degrees. Are there fine lines? Should we rely on what the accredidation mafia of Alan Contraras or Gollin and the like, to tell us what belongs on Google?

Also the system works pretty good as it is. You can google any college or University and see what is accredited.

Finally its self defeating to ban what you would describe as "Diploma Mills" from web searches since if any employer or whoever wants to check credentials and tries to search for a school and comes up with nothing than they cannot possibly verify someone's credentials.

One other note, if you google receipes for crystal meth you can find all kinds of stuff there. You want to google Child Porn its out there too. I doubt that search engines would be that enthusiastic in censoring sites that are controversial.