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Google Ad-words Poetry Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-unique dept.

hecticjames writes "Cute idea - buying google adwords to place poetry. The site also includes google's response." The page is a really interesting look into Google's text ad service, and has a lot of interesting statistics about the relative value of art and porn. It's really worth a read.

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  1. Too bad by SonicRED · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Those poems sucked worse than anything I've ever read ever.

  2. Re:Censored? by Louis_Wu · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    How can anything that happened here be construed as censorship?
    It's the "New-Speak". Anytime someone is told "You can't say that", it's called Censorship!!!! (Cue ominous music, announcer speaks: 'Run for the hills. Hoard food. Kiss your children goodbye. The world ends now.' Pictures of panic in the background; in fact, the scene is the Orcs rampaging through Hobbitown in Frodo's water-mirror-vision, LoTR: Fellowship of The Ring. <breathe> )

    It doesn't matter whether it's some kids yelling fire in a theater, or a reporter publishing the Top-Secret troop movements during a conflict/war/police-action, or library computers used by the community (whoops, that restriction is actually "responsible parenting"; with a whole community being the parents), if some perceived authority does something you don't like, label it as BAD (images of starving children &/or elderly, references to Hitler/Nazis, etc.) and proceed to press the perceived authority to change their horrible ways.

    Secret Decoder Ring: Restricting 1 is NOT censorship, restricting 2 IS censorship (but I would argue the only appropriate kind of censorship), restricting 3 IS censorship.