Om Malik looked up some of Google’s SEC filings and found the following: Google has been paying more money every quarter to the affiliates. However, TAC as a percentage of advertising revenues generated by network sites is declining. For instance in q…

COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jon

Unfortunately, Google may be playing a darker, more sinister role in American society that merely squeezing advertisers: it is becoming a corporate censor.

Last year, the Google Adwords team discontinued all advertisements placed by Perrspectives.com due to “unacceptable content� on the site that includes “language that advocates against an individual, group or organization.� That may or may not have been blatant bias against liberal viewpoints. There can be no doubt, though, that the current Google editorial guidelines, evenly applied, would bar almost any newspaper, magazine, opinion journal, political party, advocacy campaign or even religious organization from advertising on its site. And that puts Google dangerously at odds with core American values of free speech and assembly.

For the full story, see:

“Google’s Gag Order: An Internet Giant Threatens Free Speech”