GOOGLE censors award winning documentary

XXI CENTURY is am independent documentary film by Gabriele Zamparini & Lorenzo Meccoli

Featuring:
Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Arno Mayer, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Scott Ritter, Susan Sarandon, September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Nelson Mandela, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, The Nation, Ramsey Clark, Danny Glover, Angela Davis, Jessica Lange, Greg Palast, Ossie Davis, American Civil Liberties Union, Indymedia, Al Sharpton, Pete Seeger, Harry Belafonte, Democracy Now!, Veteran for Peace, United for Peace and Justice, FAIR, Pacifica Foundation, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, MediaChannel, Not in Our Name, International ANSWER and many other voices of dissent.

"An exceptionally well done panorama of significant political events and ideas surrounding September 11, 2001 and The American Empire. Superbly edited, with a cast of leading progressive thinkers and activists, it touches all the bases."
William Blum, Historian, Author of "Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II"

FOR MORE INFORMATION about XXI CENTURY: http://www.customflix.com/Store/ShowTtl.jsp?id=205672

HOWEVER,

THE ADS FOR THIS AWARD WINNING DOC were DELETED by GOOGLE

because

ANTI-BUSH WORDS WERE DEEMED UNACCEPTABLE.


"A couple of days ago we put a couple of ads on Google for our documentary “XXI CENTURY”. The ads were immediately deleted by Google, because “Unacceptable”. In the ad one could read “American Voices Against Bush”. This was considered “UNACCEPTABLE”. Also, keywords such as “Peace”, “No War”, “Activism”, “Torture” were considered “UNACCEPTABLE” by Google.

We are in a free country, after all…"

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GOOGLE'S DELETION SEE: http://thecatsdream.com/news.php

Google annoys me, and this has caused major arguments with family members. (not sure if they have merged owners or not?)

Bush has his new cold war style "Red Phone" to the CEOs of oil companies, Corporate America, and all the inside players - meanwhile, our State Governments, the foundation of our government and Constitution, can't get their phone calls returned from the Bush White House.

Why would Wall Street let a wild card like Google start prominently displaying ads that are anti-Bush? Nobody, least of all CEOs, take "free market" rhetoric seriously. Only the suckers do.

much better search engine than google.

http://www.ask.com/

:shrug:

Took me right there...

I know that probably some censorship at Google takes place and maybe they lean right, I don't know but I take these kinds of articles with a grain of salt. You have to put it all in context. You have a search engine that will give you hits on lets say "Sex with Guavas" but they ban keywords such as Peace, No War, Activism, and Torture?

Lets do a little research because sometimes its not only the right that spins.

Peace: 29,800,000 hits. Think one of them may have linked to this movie?

No War: 12,700,00 hits. What about here?

Activism: 2,630,000 hits. Not as many but maybe a mention of the movie.

Torture: 8,050,000 hits. Gotta be a mention here right?

I read the article at the website as well as the post and no one took the time to get Google's response. Did Google tell these people that the ads would be pulled and if so was it by email? By letter? By phone? Did anyone take the time to get a contact at Google who send the message the ads we're pulled?

My point with this response is not to piss anyone off but to show how, we as liberals look if we listen to every cock-and-bull story we here and relate it as news. Why we'd look like freeper 'I told ya so" fools everytime someone finds a vial of something in Iraq. We're better than that, and smarter. Don't get sucked into pseudo-media void of innuendo and lies. Take some time to research the stories you see. Lets not become freeperesque. I made that word up, I like it. Your all welcome to use it.

certainly aide the author's argument if they had actual correspondence with Google relevant to the claim.

Error

Since when does google have an obligation to run ads it deems unacceptable? Google doesn't run very many politically charged ads on either side. Go type in "Bush" and "Kerry" to see what I mean.

one could see a day where all media outlet is controlled by people who share the same ideological bent. Where would one go to present an opinion or idea with an opposing viewpoint?

Jay

Well, that's assuming that market forces would make that opposing viewpoint unprofitable, which I think is wrong (despite the recent unpleasantness at Air America)
I'd be curious as to what sort of remedy you would suggest that would require media to air ads for both sides of any political issue. Would you extend such regulation to DU? Would we have conservative ads here as well as democratic? (if, God forbid, this site started going the way of the banners & pop-ups) Who would decide what constitues proper adherence to these rules? It's not all as clear cut as democrats vs. republicans. Would it be legal for someone to make pop-up blocking software that blocks only conservative, and not liberal ads?

Furthermore, Google seems to refrain from running political ads on BOTH sides of the aisle, so this isn't even relevant to your point.

Google AdWords do not have the editorial oversight of some other programs (Overture comes to mind).

Now the keyword torture doesn't have any ads. Kind of understandable.

But "Peace" does, as does "No War" & "Activism". That's weird.

Here are their guidelines:

https://adwords.google.com/select/guidelines.html