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Google to Block Firearm, Ammunition, Gun Accessory Ads
Breitbart.com ^ | June 27, 2014 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 06/28/2014 10:29:26 PM PDT by 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."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: achillwind; bang; banglist; censorship; evil; g42; google; guncontrol; gungrabbers; guns
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To: dbehsman

Either we have the freedom to peacefully assemble (or not assemble) or we do not. Time for some legal ju-jitsu. Sue Google under the same laws that force Christians to serve homos and force them to carry the advertisements.

Personally, I am of the opinion that so called “anti discrimination laws” are a clear violation of the freedom of assembly clause.


81 posted on 06/29/2014 2:14:46 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: isthisnickcool
I've been around here for years and that's about the harshest thing anyone ever has ever said to me.

I apologize. I didn't mean to come across that harsh.

Anyone that watched the genesis of google could see that they had a really bright idea. Good for them. But to say that they have some right to other peoples content was and still is wrong headed from a property rights standpoint.

Anyone has the right to cite the work of anyone else without paying. The fact that Google and others cite stuff on a really large scale with a convenient user interface (and make a fortune by selling ads to go with) has no bearing on that basic fact. Other than their vastly better technology, Google is really no different than the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature or a library's card catalog.

If search engines had been required to pay web authors, they never would have got off the ground, and the web would be a far less useful thing.

Considering you line of thinking I wonder if you think it absurd or ironic that today google polices and scrubs content that they decide is unworthy of providing. Recently they decided to censor (yea, I understand the true meaning of the word) web pages that may have words that say things like "gun for sale".

According to the article, they are not going to accept gun ads. It doesn't say anything about filtering pages. For instance, if I search for Bushmaster XM-15 rifle, I get plenty of hits, including potentially useful related search suggestions, but no ads, even though I mentioned a specific brand name and model number. If I search for Bushmaster XM-15 manual, Google's lead hit is this PDF. Now, that's downright helpful! But if I search for a non-gun product, e.g., Sangean PR D15, I get a large pile of hits and Google shopping results and a slew of ads. Interestingly, if I try the Bushmaster XM-15 rifle query on Bing, I do get one ad, from Amazon.com/sports (free 2-day shipping).

How anyone can think that simply because something like google is a valuable tool that means that they should realize profit off the work of others is indeed idiot to me.

That's how a market economy works. The successful participants are constantly profiting from the work of others as they produce their outputs. And we, the customers, through our buying decisions, decide how to value the contributions of the various producers. Free tutorial, brought to you by Google.

82 posted on 06/29/2014 2:34:47 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: lee martell
DuckDuckGo = Sounds irritating

Too hard to type. Use ddg.gg instead.

83 posted on 06/29/2014 2:55:34 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

I don’t need to type it since it is on my Pale Moon browser.


84 posted on 06/29/2014 2:56:44 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: cynwoody

Good suggestion. Thanks!


85 posted on 06/29/2014 4:21:51 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: mylife

Maybe, but I hear once you go black, you’ll never go back....


86 posted on 06/29/2014 5:05:41 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: No.6

I use startpage. I dumped google a long time ago


87 posted on 06/29/2014 5:07:18 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: dbehsman

I don’t use google at all. Can I use them less? Probably not, but I will talk about them more.


88 posted on 06/29/2014 7:12:17 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Just doing laps around the sun and shaking my head that progressives can believe what they do!)
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To: dbehsman
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89 posted on 06/30/2014 12:00:33 AM PDT by RocketMan1 (Creepy Ass Cracka.)
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To: RocketMan1
Well .. that didn't work. Trying again.

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90 posted on 06/30/2014 12:04:30 AM PDT by RocketMan1 (Creepy Ass Cracka.)
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To: dbehsman

google is doing evil.

again.


91 posted on 07/01/2014 9:04:06 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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