Don't be Google
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--Google AdSense ads disappear from Mondoweiss without adequate explanation.
--In a "disturbing trend," videos critical of Israel disappear from YouTube without adequate explanation. YouTube is owned by Google.
--Go back in time... Walt and Mearsheimer's talk at the Googleplex was canceled. [Steve Walt: we were scheduled to speak at Google Headquarters here in Mountain View, California.. Pur publicist got an email the previous Friday late in the afternoon that the event had been cancelled and didn't give us an explanation... We were subsequently told that the decision had been made 'very high up in the company,' and the Google representative said they had never seen an event like this get cancelled like the way they did. They said they would be interested in possibly rescheduling us, but we've never been able to reschedule the event, so clearly, it's not going to happen."]
["Don't be evil" is the informal corporate motto of Google. This post is based entirely on a note from Brian Dana Akers.]
Major media distributors aren't independent anymore. Reporting suffers at the hands of investors, bankers and governments, all of who apply pressure to have reportage that serves their interests.
June 21, 2009 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
RE: In a "disturbing trend," videos critical of Israel disappear from YouTube without adequate explanation.
SEE: “ADL, YouTube launch partnership to fight video abuse”, Dec. 14, 2008, By MAX SOCOL, “THE JERUSALEM POST”
(EXCERPT) The Anti-Defamation League announced Sunday its recent expansion into the world of YouTube, the on-line video-sharing site.
The US-based advocacy group has officially partnered with the digital media powerhouse in an effort to combat hate speech and other forms of abuse…
ENTIRE ARTICLE – http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1228728196431
June 22, 2009 12:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Google AdSense program disables publishers' account happens often. It's hard to get back your account if you got disable. The reason would probably be they detect invalid ad clicks.
November 12, 2009 2:17 AM | Reply | Permalink