September 23, 2004

GOOGLE ADS has blackballed PRESTOPUNDIT.

>>>>BREAKING -- Google Ads now acknowledges its error. See "UPDATE II below for details.<<<<

According to the PC folks at GOOGLE, PrestoPundit contains "sensitive content":

Issues:

- Sensitive content

We've found that your website contains content that we don't allow at this time. AdSense policy doesn't currently accept sites that advocate against any individual, group, or organization.

I guess criticism of John Kerry or Dan Rather and CBS News will not be tolerated by the GOOGLE company. Except for the fact that they RUN ADS across the Internet ATTACKING exactly those folks. What obnoxious hypocrites. I'm still waiting for my Blogads account to be activated --they have a backlog at the moment. Not much of a surprise, given my bad experience so far with Google Ads.

UPDATE: Now I'm paranoid. Perhaps the PC police at Google thought I should have censored this, or this or this. I'll just scream if I think I have to worry about PC censors from Google looking over my back every day. Why did I ever think I needed ads, for Crimany sake. I have my readers and they continue to generously donate enough to pay for most of my bandwidth. And book sales cover the rest. Don't expect to see Google ads here soon.

UPDATE II: Google Ads writes:

Our AdSense representatives review all AdSense applications according to our Terms and Conditions ( http://www.google.com/adsense/terms ) and our program policies ( http://www.google.com/adsense/policies ). I apologize if the prior disapproval of your application was made in error. I have now reviewed and confirmed that hayekcenter.org/prestopundit/ meets all of our policies. Your application has been approved.
Posted by Greg Ransom