Google Ads Are a Free Speech Issue

WebHostingGuy writes "A US Federal Court recently ruled that ads displayed by search engines are protected as free speech. In the case at issue, Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft were sued by an individual demanding under the 14th Amendment that the search engines display his advertisements concerning fraud in North Carolina. The Court flatly stated that the search engines were exercising their First Amendment right of free speech in deciding what ads they want to display."

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Is now a civil rights violation.

Censorship, properly, is the exercise of power to prevent speech or disclosure.

This ruling is worse. Taken the wrong way, it leads to potential civil-rights prosecution for individuals who suppress advertisements with their Tivo...

When they did something so stupid in a ruling, so contrary to the purpose and intent of the First Ammendment, it is hard to imagine that this couldn't be interpreted this way.

The Moderator of the parent is an idiot

[DarrenR114]

My post was definitely not a troll.

If you can't handle the fact that it was Katharine Harris (with her main support coming from Central Florida) that gave us the constitutional travesty that is the presidency of G.W. Bush, then stop moderating.