Google Sides with Scientology Over Critics

August 15, 2008 | New York City, New York | Vetting explained

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Ever wonder to yourself why Peter Letterse named Google in that $250 Million RICO Lawsuit against the Cult of Scientology? Here's why: http://www.epicanon.com/showthread.php?t=727 "While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our advertisers in the future, we've decided to disable your account." Once again, through Google AdSense, Scientology has manipulated Google into WITHDRAWING FINANCIAL SUPPORT from critic sites. The first large site affected by this was http://www.enturbulation.org/ which lost its google adsense account several months ago and now relies on user donations and a lesser known advertising site. In the case of EpicAnon (the home site for TriState area Anonymous) the site's owner had learned from the mistakes of Enturbulation and blocked all known scientology sites from the page. (This prevents the cult from accusing said critic's site of "illegal click counts") It also keeps unwanted scientology ads off of the website. However, Scientology.org and it's affiliates are constantly purchasing new webspace as well as new "keywords" from Google AdSense. They have purchased words like "Rick Astley" and "Anonymous" to trigger their ads and I personally know that until the account was disabled, we were still viewing scientology related ads on our site despite every effort to block them. All one has to do is see for yourself on Google or YouTube how many "Truth About Scientology" or "Dianetics" ads appear on pages seemingly unrelated to the topic. Now, as a result of their actions, our site has been cut off from almost 80% of its funding, successfully removing it from existence or, in the best case scenario, hitting every one of its members in the wallet to keep the site up. What does this all mean? It means that a fur trading company can buy the key words "animal cruelty" "abuse" and "PETA" and have THEIR ads appear on the websites of those critical of their business. Then, according to Google's "side with the rich guy" policy, PETA's website could lose all AdSense income if the fur trading company falsely complains about "click abuse". Even though PETA did nothing to violate the ToS. It may sound like a paranoid plot at the moment, and trust me, I understand how this comes off. But know the truth before you judge someone. We're not accusing Google of trying to run the world or take over the internet. All we want are answers from their CEOs and an understanding of how much loyalty and trust they have in the very same people who built them up into the company they are today. Eric Schmidt, why do you as a publically traded corporation consistently side on the richer end of a struggle instead of staying fair, non-biased and neutral as you claim to be? Your spokesperson once said: "Google policy does not permit the advertisement of websites that contain abortion and religion-related content. We only allow ads that have factual information about abortion...We recognize that this is a very emotive subject that people have strong views on both sides. Google takes no view on this issue one way or the other as a company." So tell me this: Is Scientology a religion or a business? Any further questions? Ask them yourself: *Google Inc.

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