Is Google ANTI-2nd Amendment?

[westernamerican]

Google reversed position on CHLGrapevine Site so all is well!

[barnez]

How many of you know that Google is Anti-Second Amendment! I sure didn't until this morning. Read my emails and low and behold a friend of mine's fledgling site which was primarily initiated for Texas CHL Holders had the GOOGLEAds pulled. Don't know about you guys but I am seriouly thinking about boycotting GOOGLE. I am really growing sick of Iron-headed people who are against the ownership of guns by people that a law abiding citizens. How about you?

what reason did they give?

[seamusTX]

Yep. Google won't handle paid ads for firearms or ammunition. Try looking up any random product, like cameras, and note the ads on the right. Then try a firearms phrase like "colt 1911."

What annoys me is that they classify firearms with things like Nazi memorabilia and illegal drugs.

eBay and PayPal have similar policies.

The people who run Google are idealists of the leftist persuasion. I don't know if the company's policies are determined by that or their lawyers.

- Jim

[phddan]

Is there a good alternative to google??

Dan

[repsychler]

They dumped my pro-2a site from adwords years ago, when adwords was new.
I tried arguing it out with them, but they weren't having it. Was disappointing, because Adwords was the only thing that generated enough income to cover the cost of hosting the site.

[westernamerican]

Is there a good alternative to google??

Dan

http://www.ask.com/ is a good one I think!

[Mithras61]

Yep. Google won't handle paid ads for firearms or ammunition. Try looking up any random product, like cameras, and note the ads on the right. Then try a firearms phrase like "colt 1911."

What annoys me is that they classify firearms with things like Nazi memorabilia and illegal drugs.

eBay and PayPal have similar policies.

The people who run Google are idealists of the leftist persuasion. I don't know if the company's policies are determined by that or their lawyers.

- Jim

It may be a policy dictated by the lawyers for them. Any site that is accessible from Europe and has servers in Europe is subject to lawsuits under European Union jurisdiction.

Yahoo was sued by Germany a couple years ago when someone tried to sell Nazi memorabilia. The same can happen to any company that is accessible (the lawsuit may be tossed out, but the owner would still have to fight it out in a European court first).

[MoJo]

For what it is worth - - - Stoppingpower.net has google ads on it.

[seamusTX]

It may be a policy dictated by the lawyers for them. Any site that is accessible from Europe and has servers in Europe is subject to lawsuits under European Union jurisdiction.

I understand about the Nazi memorabilia and illegal drugs and pornography. It just annoys me that they lump legal weapons in with illegal things.

- Jim

[Mithras61]

It may be a policy dictated by the lawyers for them. Any site that is accessible from Europe and has servers in Europe is subject to lawsuits under European Union jurisdiction.

I understand about the Nazi memorabilia and illegal drugs and pornography. It just annoys me that they lump legal weapons in with illegal things.

- Jim

I understand. By the same lights, it annoys me that we have to make an attempt to comply with European censorship. It sucks, but the alternatives to not complying can be expensive.

[seamusTX]

... it annoys me that we have to make an attempt to comply with European censorship.

That's life in the borderless Internet. The First Amendment is an American value. Some sovereign countries have their reasons for doing things differently.

- Jim

[KBCraig]

Is there a good alternative to google??

You might check out http://www.goodsearch.com/.

They give good search returns, plus donate profits to the charity you designate.

[Texian]

You might try Windows Live Search. I typed in concealed handguns and got this.

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=c ... &go=Search

[Venus Pax]

My homepage is Yahoo! and I've never had trouble finding gun-related businesses.

[iflyabeech]

Its funny I just found this thread. I was setting up an adsense account and read this:

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/ ... k&hl=en_US

Site Content

While Google offers broad access to a variety of content in the search index, publishers in the AdSense program may only place Google ads on sites that adhere to our content guidelines, and ads must not be displayed on any page with content primarily in an unsupported language. View a list of supported languages.

Sites displaying Google ads may not include:

* Violent content, racial intolerance, or advocacy against any individual, group, or organization
* Pornography, adult, or mature content
* Hacking/cracking content
* Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia
* Excessive profanity
* Gambling or casino-related content
* Content regarding programs which compensate users for clicking on ads or offers, performing searches, surfing websites, or reading emails
* Excessive, repetitive, or irrelevant keywords in the content or code of web pages
* Deceptive or manipulative content or construction to improve your site's search engine ranking, e.g., your site's PageRank
* Sales or promotion of weapons or ammunition (e.g., firearms, fighting knives, stun guns)
* Sales or promotion of beer or hard alcohol
* Sales or promotion of tobacco or tobacco-related products
* Sales or promotion of prescription drugs
* Sales or promotion of products that are replicas or imitations of designer goods
* Sales or distribution of term papers or student essays
* Any other content that is illegal, promotes illegal activity, or infringes on the legal rights of others

Its amazing to me that they lump sales or promotion of weapons into all this other crud!!!! what a liberal croc!