Posted on 07/11/2019 7:27:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Google has a knife that it holds over the jugular vein of all internet publications that depend on advertising revenue. It holds a dominant position in the digital advertising market and could, by denying ad revenue to any digital publication it targets, drive that voice out of business.
Now, according to information from Project Veritas, a very large number of Google employees are demanding that Google drive Breitbart.com out of business. Alana Mastrangelo reports at Breitbart:
An internal Google petition "to end Google's business with Breitbart" was recently leaked to Project Veritas. The petition — which over 1,000 Google employees have signed — calls for labeling Breitbart News as "prohibited content" to block the news outlet from "all Google-served ads."
A Google insider says that a petition has been circulated among Google employees, calling on banning Breitbart News from Google's advertising networks, in order to cut off news platform from ad revenue, according to a recent report by Project Veritas.
This is nothing new, and it is not exactly a bottom-up effort in its origin:
Last year, emails leaked exclusively to Breitbart News revealed a similar story, in which a group of Google employees — with encouragement from the tech giant's director of monetization — had begun plotting the downfall of the website through removing Breitbart News from Google's market-dominating ad services.
This should be an obvious danger to free speech. True, Google is not the government, so it may claim that the First Amendment does not apply to it. But Google also enjoys government protection:
"This is important, because Google claims protection under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act," noted O'Keefe, "Basically, they say they are impartial publishers of content and therefore, not liable for any content
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Call me crazy but...
... does every ad HAVE to come from Google?
I don't think we ever went to war to sell more tanks. But if the left has their way we'd go to war with Russia, Iran, anyone so they can slam Trump. They are stone cold amoral evil. I never really used that sort of language before, I thought it was a childish taunt of a non-thinker. Leftists call us evil all the time for no reason. But as they laugh off ANTIFA, as google says it's okay to make death threats against wrong thinkers, as they openly censor all opposition, as they push for war for the sole purpose of being able to call Trump a failed war monger, I am past that. They are evil.
Is Google in the Protection Racket business yet ?
That would be restraint of trade subject to anti trust action.
“censorship” used to be a bad thing.
Was Bell Telephone using influence to maintain their monopoly on the US phone system that Congress busted up into baby Bell’s thereby ruining our phone system for years?
Which is now slowly putting itself back together, like the Terminator?.................
Kinda I guess but now since mobile phones are more popular, I don’t know. How long will landlines still be around? Does Bell sell cell phones?
Google needs to be gutted - bump for later...
AT&T does.........They ‘sell’ EVERYTHING!...............
https://about.att.com/category/all_news.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T
The tyranny of democracy raises it ugly head ...
So much for “ democracy dies in darkness “.
Ping to Semimojo.
Once again, let us worry about massive communications corporations's "property rights" to a publicly used communications infrastructure instead of worrying about how this control of communications will be used to destroy millions of lives if they are allowed to keep doing it.
You would be the sort that would say, "Well, rounding up Jews is the Law! So the German government has a right to do it, and we must respect their right to round up Jews!"
Penny wise and Dollar foolish.
No. Use army howitzers and air force bombs. Destroy everything they own utterly, so the next time someone tries this, they will decide to respect the first amendment.
This is how they killed WND.
EU regulators, have at it.
It only take Google cookie cleaning/spoofing software and conservative user permissions to badly dent Google’s ad business model.
Google shouldn’t mess with conservative websites.
IIRC last year a group of Gaggle employees petitioned management to have the company not work with US military on AI. Management agreed. However Gaggle works with a Chinese university on AI and the university works with the Chinese military. Gaggle is no longer a US company and should be booted out of the US and all federal contracts.
RE: This is how they killed WND.
They’re still in operation. Nobody’s stopping anyone from going to WorldNetDaily.com
Breitbart advertising is so incredibly off putting and cheezy that it makes me visit less and less.
Whatever happened to real advertising??
Hard to push “honest reporting” when your pages are littered with the trashiest sleeziest kind of ads.
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