ZeroHedge and The Federalist have apparently racist comments on their sites and they don't moderate them.
Advertisers don't want to be associated with those comments or have their ads placed on such sites.
Google says "You can say whatever you want but we won't place our advertisers' ads on your sites if you don't clean them up."
If companies wanted their ads to run on those sites I assure you Google would do it.
Is it time for the government to force companies to run ads on every site?
Is Crate & Barrel censoring ZeroHedge if they don't want their ads on a site with racist comments?
This is a made up excuse to justify their own censorship. I can't recall how many sites i've visited in my life and never looked at the comments. I think most people do not bother reading the comments.
Some websites believe in Free Speech, not "regulated speech", and if they were to censor their comments, they would be denying their own libertarian principles.
Google is demanding people adhere to Google's beliefs, not their own.
If companies wanted their ads to run on those sites I assure you Google would do it.
This is a fun game. Someone posts a racist message on a website, Google shuts it down. But wait! Is this draconian censorship tactic going to be applied fairly and evenly to everyone? Are they going to call out ANTIFA for promoting violence or BLM saying racist things?
Are they going to change the definition of what constitutes "Hate Speech" so that if you quote the bible about queers, you've committed an act of "hate" speech?
You are playing with Nazi fire and you don't even know it.