I loathe the little Stalinists at Google as much as anyone, but if there’s a legal issue with the ad, there’s a legal issue with the ad.
Besides, it’s hard to get all bent out of shape about Susan Collins getting screwed over by her fellow travelers on the left.
It’s just an indication of what crazed loons inhabit moveon. If even the “moderate” Sen Collins is too conservative for them then they are the truest examples of extremism in America, not any conservative group. Collins is even against banning partial birth abortion. I guess the only way to satisfy the far left is to make late term abortion mandatory. I wouldn’t put it past them to propose it either.
“I loathe the little Stalinists at Google as much as anyone, but if there’s a legal issue with the ad, there’s a legal issue with the ad.”
When the ‘legal issue’ is that a political entity is invoking a trademark on its name so it can’t be criticized, that is a First Amendment violation of the highest order.
Where’s the ACLU when you need them? /sarc
We could use an equivalent organization that’d be a civil rights watchdog regardless of the political bent of the issue.
I think MoveOn’s argument is you can’t identify MoveOn.org as MoveOn.org w/o violating MoveOn’s trademark. So, if you don’t want people talking about WhistlingPastTheGraveyard just trademark your name and then people can’t even reply to your post w/o violating WhistlingPastTheGraveyard’s trademark.
Seems kind of specious to me. How many libs make money on Rush Limbaugh’s name?
Here someone is being targeted by MoveOn.org Stalinists and they can’t say so w/o violating Stalinist MoveOn.org’s trademark? How can that be?
Some “legal issues” are more equal than others...
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.
Political Free Speech was the reason for the First Amendments Guarantee..
Her ads are political and therefore should enjoy the Highest Protections.
Allowing Trademark Law to override Political Free Speech is a deliberate misreading of the first Amendment Protections.
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