Posted on 07/15/2020 3:23:50 PM PDT by Zenyatta
ZeroHedge has Google’s permission to use its advertising platform again after they carried out a thorough “cleaning” of its comment section which, according to the technology giant, was full of inappropriate comments.
The popular website dedicated to economic and political issues had some problems with Google in mid-June when Google told the outlet that they were going to demonetize them and prevent them from earning revenue through Google ads. Google has a monopoly over the website advertising market.
The issues Google alleged, however, were not caused directly by the site’s content, but by the comments section, which Google says contained messages that violated Google’s policies. Supposedly, users could post “derogatory” comments without being sufficiently moderated.
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I like Zero Hedge, even though I take them with a grain of salt. (It seems like half their articles are: “You can tell by this graph that the stock market is about to collapse.”)
Anyway, their comments section is full of humor. But there are usually MANY raw, anti-Semitic comments there as well.
Just wow
Google wouldn’t have any problems with the comments if they were anti-Trump. We all know what’s going on here: censorship of views that Google does not share.
#JewLivesMatter
If I lived in the twitterverse I would try this cause it would start a war
I would be amusing to everyone try to cancel each other
Pretty lame censorship since ZeroHedge has been available to anyone who wants to go there.
What exactly were they prevented from saying?
The issue is not about who can go to Zero Hedge—it is about which comments are allowed to be posted.
The comments section has been wild and crazy, so you always needed a thick skin to go there...
Google didn't prevent anyone from posting any comments.
Free speech doesn't mean free from consequences.
The comment section on ZH was fabulous before they got sold a few years ago. No it’s just anti Semitic Russians.
Just to be very clear—Zero Hedge had articles.
Google had no issue with their articles.
Individuals posted comments—some of them crazy.
Zero Hedge did not censor the comments.
Google demanded the comments be censored.
No they didn't.
They just said "Our advertisers don't want their ads running in a cesspool. You're free to operate a cesspool, just don't expect to use our platform to make money off of it."
“Individuals posted comments—some of them crazy.”
Which was one of the reasons I go there on a daily basis.
Many ways around the censorship, anyhow.
The only comment allowed will be ‘I love Big Brother’.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell
Good gif!
That “cesspool” is called the free exchange of ideas.
In the old days that was considered a virtue.
Now big corporations are cowed in a corner, afraid of “activists” who might call them names.
Folks who can’t handle the rough and tumble of free discourse would be much more comfortable in North Korea, where everybody agrees about everything.
I wonder how many google comments violate. Probably millions.
True.
Do you think companies should be free to say they don't want their ads to run there?
Now we are getting to the root of the issue.
Google has become a de facto monopoly, and in my opinion they should be trust-busted.
If they are big enough to have de facto control over content, they are big enough to be trust busted.
We are not talking about one individual small company boycotting a website, we are talking about a Silicon Valley behemoth boycotting a website.
ZH does require a thick skin to navigate, lots of raw antisemitism, racism, and a predilection for dooms day market projects. Watch out for ChinaBot swarms. Lots of good stuff and insightful analysis also.
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