Google Disables All Ads on Antiwar.com
(Antiwar):
http://antiwar.com/blog/2015/03/18/google-disables-all-ads-on-antiwar-com/
This morning (3/18/15) we received a note from Google Adsense
informing us that all ads for our site had been disabled. Why? Because
of this page showing the horrific abuses committed by U.S. troops in
Iraq at Abu Ghraib. This page has been up for 11 years. During all
that time Google Adsense has been running ads on our site - but as
Washington gets ready to re-invade Iraq, and in bombing, killing, and
abusing more civilians, they suddenly decide that their
"anti-violence" policy, which prohibits "disturbing material,"
prohibits any depiction of violence committed by the U.S. government
and paid for with your tax dollars. This page is the
third-most-visited page in our history, getting over 2 million page
views since it was posted. To say this is an utter outrage would be
an understatement: it is quite simply the kind of situation one might
expect to encounter in an authoritarian country where state-owned or
state-connected companies routinely censor material that displeases
the government. Is Google now an arm of the U.S. State Department?
- - -
On its face, this seems like an inappropriate decision by Google,
given the Ad guidelines as I understand them. I urge immediate
reconsideration before the firestorm starts.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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