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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."
This whole case is troublesome. Something just doesn't add up right.
Have you read my journal today?
Surely there has to be some distinction between 'Free Speech' and blatantly lying in advertising (what we in the UK call false advertising).
Is there an equivalent rule in the US, or can any company invent any old rubbish about their product and have the lies protected by 'Free Speech'? Obviously there's more to this case than that, but isn't the judge setting a dangerous precedent?
Get ready for 'there's no such thing as Climate Change' adverts sponsored by Smogmaker Industries, followed by: 'Of course smoking is good for you!'
I'm going to transform myself into a mighty hawk. Either that or I'll just go and work at Dixons, haven't decided yet.
No, you can't really deny someone advertisement based on whim. This court is obviously out of touch with the real world (and maybe the constitution too). This really couldn't be any less of a free speech issue.
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
This decision is based on the premise that "search engines are not state actors" and thus have the right to choose what ads they will display. If the government were to pick and choose the same way, it would be a free speech violation.
Here's the problem: Google, and all major corporations really ARE government players, they're all bought and controlled by the same New World Order power structure that runs the government. It's just all done under the cloak of secrecy so we, the "ignorant masses," don't figure out what's going on. The truth is that this is the covert means by which America's Constitutional system of government has been dismantled, and by which the whole world is being delivered into the hands of a global dictatorship run by European banking elite.