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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. Porn has no value by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Period. It is a symptom of societal decay and will be the downfall of the Western world unless we nip it in the bud. No society that has embraced pornography has ever survived.

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

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

  3. 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.