Google canceled Anti-Scientology Anonymous’s adsense account
Google has canceled the Adsense account of anti-Scientology site Enturbulation, the site is run by Anonymous, a group that started Project Chanology in response to the Church of Scientology’s attempts to remove material from an exclusive promotional interview with Scientologist Tom Cruise from the Internet in January 2008.
The reason is quite obvious: Enturbulation talks about Scientology a lot, and AdSense picks up the context wrong, serving a bunch of pro-Scientology ads there (which are, most probably, the only Scientology-related ads there are). Google’s explanation for the cancellation, from their letter to Enturbulation, is this: “While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.â€
This is all nice and dandy, and Google AdSense does have a policy which says that partners may not advocate “against any individual, group, or organization.†The fact is, however, that this happens on a daily basis on millions of other sites. For example, it took me 30 seconds to find an anti-creationist site with a bunch of pro-creationism AdSense ads. Once again, Google implements its policies selectively - possibly under pressure - and this is probably worse than having no policy at all.
[via mashable]
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7:29 pm on July 28th, 2008
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