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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
There's no legal issue with the ad. Moveon.org is not a commercial operation anyway, so it's hardly a "trademark" question. Besides, even if it were, and let's say we were talking about Coca Cola, Pepsi really can advertise that "Coke is garbage" provided they have the evidence that it is ~ .

Same here. Moveon.org is hardly innocent of saying indecent, preposterous and untrue things about the people who don't share their beliefs. They are giving money to Collins' opponent on top if it so the opponent can lie.

Moveon.org is demanding the right to enter into the political arena and at the same time be exempt from criticism.

That Google.com is siding with them shouldn't be surprising. We'll need to put them on the list of companies to be run out of business once we get back in power ~ and just maybe we can imprison some of them faster than they can die like they did at Enron.

32 posted on 10/11/2007 11:43:10 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

You’re right, I had misunderstood the excuse Google was giving. I thought the complaint was over the specific use of the “Betray-Us” ad. I was wrong. It’s just the Google dorks being the fascist eggheads that they are.


36 posted on 10/11/2007 12:13:46 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (We didn't "win" the Cold War. We had a half-time lead.)
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To: muawiyah
I don’t think there is a legal issue here.

“...the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the notion that there is anything like a cause of action under the Lanham Act, the statue governing trademark law in the United States, for so-called ‘trademark disparagement.”

I have absolutely no problem with Google rejecting the ad as they legally can. The problem is that they don’t have a pair big enough to say why. To hide behind a fictitious legal claim is weak. I believe they are afraid to tell the world what they really believe.

39 posted on 10/11/2007 12:58:26 PM PDT by Cber505 (Conservatism...The big shots try to hold it back, Fools try to wish it away!)
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To: muawiyah

Even the 9th Circus says it’s not a trademark infringement.

The article also points out the hypocrisy of MoveOn.org, as they name drop corporations all the time. Someone needs to fight fire with fire.


42 posted on 10/11/2007 2:51:08 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Fight the illegal Mexican colonizers & imperialist conquistadors! Long live the resistance!)
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