Michelle Malkin points out that Google employees gave 98% of their political donations to Democrats. But it's difficult to be surprised by that given previous positions taken by Google. I remember blogging on this a while back on my first blog. Someone had asked me to help raise awareness, but I never saw much about it around the sphere.
In an e-mail to Clay, Google said, "At this time, Google policy does not permit the advertisement of websites that contain 'religion and abortion or contraceptive content.' As noted in our advertising terms and conditions, we reserve the right to exercise editorial discretion when it comes to the advertising we accept on our site."
Of course if you Google abortion you get all kinds of ads on the side just like below, only I removed the links.
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It's fairly clear that at Google - abortion good, Christian and pro-life bad; Homosexuality good, anti same sex marriage bad. No suprise in their donation pattern for me. What's frightening is the role they play in sorting and disseminating information in the world today. it doesn't take much of a skew to make at least some difference.
Here are some other telling snippets:
Google bans Christian ad
Anti-homosexual remarks considered 'hate' contentGoogle has banned a Christian organization's advertisements promoting its stance against homosexuality, saying the group promotes "hate."
Stand to Reason, a nonprofit apologetics organization, says its "AdWord" advertisement on Google recently was pulled down.
..."Google's objections had to do with other articles on our website pertaining to homosexuality," Penner told WND. "They claimed that their specialist had deemed us a hate site and that their policies didn't allow people to have ads that discriminated against certain groups, which include sexual orientation."
Penner said she asked Google what specifically it thought was "hate speech."
"The things they cited were all moral judgments from our religious perspective about homosexuality, that it's wrong," she explained.
...Penner says she has asked Google for its definition of "hate," saying Stand to Reason's positions are not hateful based on dictionary definitions.
When it comes to "discrimination," she says, it is actually Google that is discriminating by disallowing Stand to Reason's ads.
An e-mail Penner received from "Kristie" at Google used the "H" word, saying, "Google AdWords policy never permits ads or keywords promoting hate, violence, or crimes toward any organization, person or group protected by law," including those distinguished by their "sexual orientation/gender identity."
Penner countered via e-mail: "Your suspension of our advertisement illegitimately excludes one side of the [same-sex marriage] debate. If you deem the issue itself off limits, then consistency would require you to suspend all searches of the issue. Instead, your search criteria return links to sites strongly advocating same-sex marriage. …"
Kristie responded by reiterating the company's verdict that the Stand to Reason website includes "unacceptable content." In the same e-mail, she said, "Google believes strongly in freedom of expression. We therefore offer broad access to content across the Web without censoring results. Please note that the decisions we make concerning advertising in no way affect the search results we deliver."
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According to Penner, no anti-homosexuality ads currently are coming up in the right-hand ads; they are all pro-homosexual."I'm sure there must be some homosexual advocacy groups behind this," she said.
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Though the organization's pro-life ad is still running on Google, another advertiser's pro-life ad was removed.
In June, Google took down pro-life T-shirt ads a clothing company, Run2316, had run for a time in 2003 without a problem, the firm's operations administrator, Christopher Clay, says.
In an e-mail to Clay, Google said, "At this time, Google policy does not permit the advertisement of websites that contain 'religion and abortion or contraceptive content.' As noted in our advertising terms and conditions, we reserve the right to exercise editorial discretion when it comes to the advertising we accept on our site."
Aren't they a Bay Area moonbat company?
Posted by: jeff | Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 06:49 PM