Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites on its Blogger Platform

Publius' Forum ^ | 6/29/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to go through its many thousands of blogs to lock out the owners of anti-Obama blogs so that the noObama message is effectively squelched. Thus far, Google has terminated the access by blog owners to 7 such sites and the list may be growing. Boy, it must be nice for Barack Obama to have an ally powerful enough to silence his opponents like that!

It isn't just conservative sites that Google's Blogger platform is eliminating. For instance, www.comealongway.blogspot.com has been frozen and this one is a Hillary supporting site. The operator of Come a Long Way has a mirror site off the Blogspot platform and has today posted this notice:

I used to have a happy internet home on Blogger: www.comealongway.blogspot.com. Then on Wednesday night, June 25, I received the following e-mail:

Dear Blogger user,

This is a message from the Blogger team.

Your blog, at http://comealongway.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog. You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

It turns out that there is an interesting pattern where it concerns the blogs that Google's Blogspot team have summarily locked down on their service. They all belong to the Just Say No Deal coalition, a group of blogs that are standing against the Obama campaign. It seems the largest portion of these blogs are Hillary supporting blogs, too.

All I can say is, WOW! If Google is willing to abuse its power like this even against fellow leftists, what does it plan against conservatives, the folks Google hates even more!?

Here is a list of the Blogspot blogs that have been frozen by Google thus far:

...Read the rest at Publius' Forum.com

[craig_eddy]

Algore is deeply involved with Google and this is not surprising to me now that Barack Hussein Obama has his endorsement

[Mobile Vulgus]

I am not all that sure that the Framers had The Google in mind when they wrote the wrote the First Amendment.

And the article linked didn't say anything about the First Amendment, either.

[SERKIT]

Does this mean Google qualifies as a 527?

[Prole]

Google is not the only organization terminating accounts on behalf of Barack Obama.

Youtube has the same fascist policy toward anyone who disagrees with Obama.

Just try launching a video that is against Obama, and see how quickly it is pulled from the site.

[SERKIT]

Early start to the “Fairness Doctrine”.

[ThreePuttinDude]

I thought Google bought Youtube...might be mistaken tho

[Tatze]

Just a quick search found this:

http://mccain-mccant.blogspot.com/

[A Strict Constructionist]

The left’s version of no room at the lunch counter. Can this be made into a Civil Rights Issue?

[abb]

What you do is use an alternative blog platform like these people did. They moved to Wordpress. If you drag the courts into the middle of it, by extension you invite court/government control over the internet. Not what needs to happen.

[Osage Orange]

Use Dogpile.com

[Zman]

Even though I uninstalled Google, it hijacks my browser and “warns me” when I try to load spectator.org. Looks like they’ve taken a page from the Chinese in net censorship.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

No Fee Speech Here! Just move along!

First Amendment? What First Amendment?

[the anti-liberal]

I just deleted my blogspot (which I had only set up for a class at university). If I set up a new one, It’ll be a ‘Wordpress’ blog - thanks for the info!

[Vigilanteman]

[the anti-liberal]

I’ve been using alltheweb for the past several years - works great. There are a lot of good alternatives to Google, but Google owns a lot of products and it’s difficult sometimes to know and avoid them.

[bimbo]

Easily resolved ... If Google is shutting down blogs that contain anti-Obama messages, post the anti-Obama messages on Pro-Obama blogs.

[newzjunkey]

They send out those message with some frequency. It’s no conspiracy. The moron just needs to follow the steps at Blogspot and contact them. It’ll be resolved in about a day.

[Earthdweller]

Good one.

[bruinbirdman]

"The left's answer to "dialog" is censorship! "

The left believes only in MONOlogue.

yitbos

[CharlesWayneCT]

I don’t really see it as a blogger issue, but it might be. Maybe it was an Obama supporter issue, hitting the spam abuse button (how does a blog get to be a “spam blog” anyway?

Most of the blogspot blogs on their list seem to be operating fine, so maybe after the review they unlocked them.

My blog has had a lot of anti-Obama stuff on it, although I am setting up a different blog for that because I don’t like to litter my blog with political posts. But I haven’t had any trouble.