Google Refuses to Accept Cheney Impeachment Ad

[tekisui]

Flying in the face of its own ad acceptance history, Google has refused to accept an ad from the Northeast Impeachment Coalition and YaliesForImpeachement.org which calls for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. Writing on Daily Kos, Ralph Lopez reports Google explained its denial of the ad in an email which read, in part,"At this time, Google policy does not permit ad text that advocates against an individual, group, or organization. In addition, this policy does not permit the advertisement of websites that advocate against a group protected by law."

Directly conflicting with that statement are ads currently running on Google that do, in fact, relate to the impeachment of Cheney along with ads that call for the impeachment of President Bush, anti-Bush t-shirts and other ads that run counter to the statement regarding Google's policy against accepting ads which "advocate against a group protected by law."

The ad in question reads:

Help Impeach Cheney NOW
Nonpartisan, the time is here.
House JC 202-225-3951 Demand ACTION


more at link: http://www.adrants.com/2007/11/google-refuses-to-accept-cheney-impeachme.php

[mogster]

1. Google is losing cred points

faster and faster these days.

[Didereaux]

2. they run Bush Impeach but not Cheney! guess who has the 'juice'...n/t

[Atman]

3. National Security, you know!

Actually, Google refused to run an ad of mine -- three or four years ago -- promoting my bumper stickers because I featured one which said simply "BUSH = LIAR." I appealed in writing, pointing out a dozen proven instances in which Bush had in fact LIED to the American people, and that therefore my bumper sticker was perfectly legitimate and within bounds. They allowed me to run the ad after that.

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[kansasblue]

4. Google disappoints:

The power of the search engine is very important. They control access to new information.

Google has a slogan: "Don't be evil" to reflect the evils of Microsoft. But I fear they've lost that innocence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Be_Evil