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GOOGLE THREATENS TO DEFUND TECHDIRT? Where Are All The Politicians Complaining?

4 years ago

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200625/17375644791/google-threatens-to-defund-techdirt-where-are-all-politicians-complaining.shtml

OH NO. GOOGLE MUST HAVE ANTI-TECHDIRT BIAS! THEY'RE THREATENING TO DEFUND US! Or not. A couple of weeks ago, we received yet another notice from Google that some of the pages on Techdirt violated its AdSense policies (AdSense is Google's program for putting ads on 3rd party pages). We'll get to what those pages were and what the complaints were in a moment, but the timing struck us as ironic -- as it came a day after we had written about why Google sending a similar notice to The Federalist was not some conspiracy of "anti-conservative bias" to silence them. Yet, when it happened to the Federalist, a bunch of big name politicians and commentators went into overdrive attacking Google.
So my question: where are they now defending Techdirt? Hmm?

GOOGLE THREATENS TO DEFUND TECHDIRT? Where Are All The Politicians Complaining?

Jun 29, 2020, 5:45pm UTC

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200625/17375644791/google-threatens-to-defund-techdirt-where-are-all-politicians-complaining.shtml > OH NO. GOOGLE MUST HAVE ANTI-TECHDIRT BIAS! THEY'RE THREATENING TO DEFUND US! Or not. A couple of weeks ago, we received yet another notice from Google that some of the pages on Techdirt violated its AdSense policies (AdSense is Google's program for putting ads on 3rd party pages). We'll get to what those pages were and what the complaints were in a moment, but the timing struck us as ironic -- as it came a day after we had written about why Google sending a similar notice to The Federalist was not some conspiracy of "anti-conservative bias" to silence them. Yet, when it happened to the Federalist, a bunch of big name politicians and commentators went into overdrive attacking Google. > So my question: where are they now defending Techdirt? Hmm?