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July 21st, 2005

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Interesting
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45381

"Despite accepting advertisements for such groups as homosexual singles sites, Google is coming under scrutiny again for allegedly banning commercials for a Christian organization.

ChristianExodus.org, the group looking to have like-minded people move to one state to help restore godly values to government, says it's been rejected from placing ads on Google AdSense."

"Google provided two Web pages outlining policies, but neither mention the word "sensitive."

Under the content section, some preclusions listed include:

Excessive profanity;

Violence, racial intolerance, or advocate against any individual, group, or organization;

Hacking/cracking content;

Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia;

Pornography, adult, or mature content;

Gambling or casino-related content, etc.
WND asked Google a series of questions, including: "What sensitive content precludes this group?" and "Is there some kind of anti-Christian bias involved?

Google spokesman Barry Schnitt would not provide any specifics about sensitive content, stating only, "Any suggestion that Google discriminates in our policies is absolutely false. Our AdSense policies prohibit websites that advocate against any individual, group or organization."

Let me first say ChristianExodus.org is a strange group of people. But the google standards don't seem to list any thing that would prevent them from access to adsense, unless being religious is the problem. Secondly Google has the right to deny access to whom ever they wish. But contray to Barry Schnitt this does show that they do discriminate against certain groups. It isn't so much there discrimination of a extreme group that bothers me, but the lie that they are not discriminating while they are openly doing so.

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From:	tabologist
Date:	July 21st, 2005 03:03 pm (UTC)

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Can't Google do anything they want? It's their website

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From:	hunterkirk
Date:	July 21st, 2005 10:03 pm (UTC)

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I didn't fully understand the difficulty here. I think the problem is based on ads they wanted to put up some where in google.

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