Google to Block Firearm, Ammunition, Gun Accessory Ads

Breitbart.com ^ | June 27, 2014 | AWR Hawkins

[dbehsman]

Beginning in September, Google plans to block firearm, ammunition, and gun accessory ads.

According to Google Support's "Dangerous Products or Services" page, the company "[wants] to keep people safe both online and offline, so [they] won't allow the promotion of some products or services that cause damage, harm, or injury."

Included in the dangerous products for which ads will be blocked are "Guns & Parts." This covers "functional devices that appear to discharge a projectile at high velocity, whether for sport, self-defense, or combat."

[libh8er]

What about cigarette ads ?

[Pontiac]

Just another reason I will never knowingly use Google or buy any of their products or services.

I have not used Google in years.

[Pontiac]

How could you forget the most dangerous of them all

IRS

[Hootowl99]

I also recommend www.duckduckgo.com for a primary search engine. I have been using it for several years for both professional and personal needs. Not only is duckduckgo a non-tracking service, it also gives way better results than google with way less spam and other crap.

[wardaddy]

With all due respect his post did not warrant that level of attack

I mean really......he’s a blithering idiot for saying that?

I’d hate to see you really pissed at a truly blithering idiot.

I know its tuff living behind enemy lines.....aren’t all Yankee conservatives moving to Texas?

So be nice.

Funny thing....right wing non southerners might be all can stop Texas from going Dem with the brown wave streaming in

[MaxMax]

I just cannot see google going through with this. It will cost them hundreds of millions the first year.
Whomever thought this up isn't going to be liked by 75% of America. Just plain ignorance. Oh and their shareholders!

[cynwoody]

With all due respect his post did not warrant that level of attack

Maybe not.

But his post indicated he doesn't have the slightest idea of a search engine's role in the internet ecosystem.

The fact is, if you put something out there, and a search engine indexes it, you have received a free service! If anything, you are beholden to the search engine, not the other way around!

In any case, the First Amendment grants Google and all other comers, foreign and domestic, the right to index the internet without having to pay lawyers $$$!!!

Of late, the biggest complaint against Google has been that sites previously highly ranked in search engine results have dropped down, resulting in ruination for the site owners, who depended on people finding their sites by searching. This appears mostly to be collateral damage resulting from Google's imperfect efforts to curtail spammers, who try to interpose their worthless pages into the results in order to rake off clicks from bewildered search engine users. I'm behind Google in this, because, being an especially lazy search engine user, I find it annoying to search for something and then have to manually filter through the garbage hits.

But the irony is, we have parties aggrieved because Google didn't index them high enough for free, not that Google didn't pay them for the privilege of indexing them! LOL!

[stevie_d_64]

Good for them!!!

Why do people, that know what it (guns and the Second Amendment) is all about, need to be reminded with annoying pop ups and other retail, money making advertisements???

I do not fault people from wanting to make money, but this transcends above and beyond the issue a lot of people are falling on this private companies decision...

Let them live or die by it...

Do we need to be able to have unsolicited internet “pro-gun” information pop up on us here???

I think our ability, as gun owners,(i.e.: activists, hunters) or just plain exercisers of this Right to Keep and Bear Arms, as WE see fit, to communicate just fine by conventional means, word of mouth, print, trade shows, etc etc etc...

We already pass down, if it is needed, all the legacy we need...If it (community) grows, good for us...

If it goes un-passed down from generation to generation, who is really to blame for that???

People could pass gas, and I could make a million dollars on Google selling air freshener...

Ok, can I make the million dollars on some other form of means of communication??? Sure, anyone can...History proves that everyday...

The important thing is to not allow the legacy to go unprepared or not communicated to future generations within YOUR sphere of influence...

Just my opinion...

[stevie_d_64]

I do not watch those sources for anything, other than the occasional entertainment programs, and ignore the advertisements and products/information in between...

You mention these sources, but I know you probably do the same...

[dsc]

“All the mass-shooting cranks took them.”

Literally all?

[dsc]

“Question, “what does Google gain by this fascist action”? I cannot think of any benefit.”

They gain the approval of the people who regulate them, and the people who control invitations to celebrity coven gatherings.

[publiusF27]

I can't resist a really spammy, sarcastic reply.

This is great news for me, as it means that people who might have found their products via Google ads are that much more likely to find them instead at Reloading Bargains, Scopes and Sights, Holster Country, Blades Online, Nock It Archery Gear, or some of our other sites.

People will be much safer once I have their money instead of Google. I approve of this policy!

[jacknhoo]

With 68% male-to-female transgenders (right here in Atlanta) being HIV/AIDS positive, you’re right.

With 65% of all new HIV/AIDS cases (in the USA) diagnosed being among the 4% of the population...men who have had sex with men, you’re right again.

Yet, we force this dangerous lifestyle into our society and culture and shove it down the throats of our religious...all in an effort to destroy morality, which is all in an effort to destroy man’s understanding that the state is not God.

It’s kind of a history-repeats-itself moment, with Google. One of its founders’ family came to America to escape the oppression and persecution of a tyrannical Russia, but is becoming the tyrannical himself. His family came to America to reap the rewards ordered freedom and morality have to offer, but their son seeks to destroy those very attributes.

We see this repeatedly with leftists. For being so “intellectual,” they sure can be downright stupid with their lack of critical thinking skills.

[Biggirl]

Bing.

[mabarker1]

I’m going to move my name to another provider.

Try Hushmail, been on it since my yahoo and gmail got hijacked by some ragheads selling farm tractors in europe

[Cato in PA]

Google, Apple, and Microsoft are virtually indistinguishable at this point. You’d be a fool to use any of their services or think that any of them is different from the others.

Google is one of the most invasive companies in the world, contributes to leftist causes, and practices censorship to please the left.

Apple is run by a deviant, Tim Cook, and is even more leftist than Google in its political outlook.

Microsoft has been accused of sharing security vulnerabilities with the government so that groups like the NSA can engineer attacks on targets. I wouldn’t be surprised, considering how Snowden’s documents revealed that Microsoft participates in PRISM.

I can’t believe some of my fellow FReepers would recommend Bing. Seriously? You’d trust a convicted monopolist that works hand-in-hand with the government?

You could use StartPage, which pulls search results anonymously from Google. Its parent company is based in the Netherlands, according to its company information, so it should be out of US jurisdiction.

DuckDuckGo is an American startup based right here in the great state of Pennsylvania. isn’t perfect, but it’s trying to do the right thing. It doesn’t track users, and some of its code is even open source.

[Cato in PA]

You’d best reconsider using Hushmail if you want to keep your email safe from the government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail#Compromises_to_email_privacy

MyKolab would be better in that regard. Taken from its front page:

“The data is stored in our very own data center in Switzerland and cannot be accessed by spy programs such as PRISM, so there will be no spying. There is also no corporate spying, because we show no advertisements. Enjoy the convenience of the Cloud without compromising freedom and openness.”

I haven’t used MyKolab - I host my own email server in a secure part of the world - but if I was looking for an alternative, that would be it.

For any other FReepers looking for safe alternatives to companies like Google and Apple, go to https://prism-break.org.

[mabarker1]

None of that will stop snooping- it has to leave the sending computer and go through the .net before it get to the destination in Switz or where ever even to Your “private” server.

Unless You don’t hook to the .net and just send E-mail back and forth to Yourself in the house.

[MV=PY]

"I'm behind Google in this, because, being an especially lazy search engine user, I find it annoying to search for something and then have to manually filter through the garbage hits. "

Google's results sort is the very essence of their value. Since Google first launched there have been untold efforts by indexed companies to gain a higher position in results searches relevant to their offering.

Google provides maximum value to the customer and advertisers by attaching the ad to the best context. Delivering that context is an ever evolving piece of functionality (proprietary algorithms) for them.

[Cato in PA]

You seem to assume that any data leaving your computer can be instantly and unequivocally cracked. That’s not necessarily the case. I don’t know with complete certainty what the feds can crack, and neither do you. All we can do is try. It starts with using peer-reviewed, open source software.

I don’t like the idea of Dear Leader having the keys to my inbox. Maybe you feel differently.