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Google's Gag Order:
Google OK's Ads from "Michael Moore Hates
America"
June 15 - 28, 2004
Google's uneven application of its "language that advocates
against" standard creates the perception of bias, or worse.
Perrspectives was dropped as a Google Adwords advertiser for
referring to the Bush administration as "secretive, paranoid and
vengeance-filled." As a Perrspectives reader notes in the
email thread below, the web site for the upcoming movie "Michael
Moore Hates America" is apparently fine with Google:
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From: "AdWords Support" <adwords-support@google.com>
Date: June 23, 2004 4:35:18 PM PDT
To: XXXXXXXX
Subject: Re: [#11506352] Report of side that violates
editorial guidelines
Hello XXXXXX,
Thank you for your email. I understand that you are concerned
that an AdWords ad you saw violates our Editorial
Guidelines.
Google believes strongly in freedom of expression and
therefore offers broad access to content across the web
without censoring results. At the same time, we reserve
the right to exercise editorial discretion when it comes to the
advertising we accept on our site, as noted in our advertising
terms and conditions.
Our editorial staff reviews all the ads that run on Google to
make sure they meet our criteria. Since we show ads immediately,
there may be a short period of time when an ad is running
before it has been reviewed and approved by Google. Please note
that we try to keep this lag as brief as possible and do
remove ads that we find to be outside our guidelines.
In response to your email, our AdWords Specialists have
reviewed the ad in question. At this time, we have found
that this ad complies with our Editorial Guidelines.
Please know that we appreciate your comments on this issue,
which will help inform our future policy discussions. Thank you
for taking the time to write us.
Please feel free to email us at adwords-support@google.com if
you have additional questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
The Google AdWords Team
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Original Message Follows:
From: XXXXXXX
Subject: Report of side that violates editorial guidelines
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 03:52:29 -0000
I am curious why an ad as quoted below. clearly advocates
against a person which is a violation of the the editorial
guidelines sent to other AdWords participants upon
termination.
Sponsored Links
Michael Moore
The story of a rebel who took
on Michael Moore.
michaelmoorehatesamerica.com
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