Is Google Going After Gay Blogs? »
Posted by: Scott-O-Rama 1 year, 6 months ago72 CommentsReflectReport this Story
Google has been quietly banning gay blogs from their AdSense program for violating their Terms of Service. Are they keeping a double-standard though when it comes to "straight" blogs with equally risque content?
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Scott-O-Rama1 year, 6 months ago
If you are a gay blogger and you were dropped from the Google AdSense program for violating their TOS, please get in contact with me.
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TednGilbertAZ1 year, 6 months ago
Google is NOT free speech territory, LTW, sorry... it is a PRIVATE enterprise, but... that being said, it sure looks strange for the liberal Google admins to do this. I am sure if it were lesbian or FFM content, then it would go through... gay or bi, if it involves male-to-male contact, it is not acceptable bi society, sadly. Google has now engaged in Homphobic behavior - I am sure they'll do the same with MMF content and be just as Biphobic. This does make me wonder what will happen when I launch BiSpace.com (I currently own the parked domain) in a few months... which is a huge undertaking and financial investment.
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Pyramids2Projects1 year, 6 months ago
Thank goodness a major company has taken a stand and shown so level of decorum. Its called having a moral core, somthing your affiction may not allow you to understand.
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david_nwpa1 year, 6 months ago
Google is a mysterious place within the web realm. Here is a simple thought. Unplug your computer and walk away for a bit. Then come back and use another service. It would seem Google would rather be ignorant and slanted rather than accepting of gays. I am tired of lesbians being readily accepted but males with other males is unacceptable. Google is no better than a neo-con "zeroness."
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Changingconstant1 year, 6 months ago
It seems like because it's a gender distinction of models instead of gay discrimination it's gender based. IE women can be displayed in a certain context while men can not. It is their perogative to have TOS agreement but it can not be allowed to selectively apply that agreement.
we all agree to follow those rules and expect Google to do the same.
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jumpmaster1 year, 6 months ago
Why don't the heterophobes just not use Google?
It is Google, not Gaygle.
This is free enterprise. Use another service or start a new one.
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jumpmaster1 year, 6 months ago
No, not really. There is no reason that a private enterprise should do hand stands or back flips for any one person or group.
Instead of getting Google to change for a small group of people, why doesn't that group choose a path in life that does not include Google? In the free enterprise system, the best revenge is to spend your dollar elsewhere.
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neuroticus1 year, 6 months ago
Have to agree. When the benefits of Google are not outweighing their corporate moral values (weighed by each consumer), then the consumer should move on.
Having said that, I feel Google still has a huge moral lead on Yahoo, especially after Y's dealing with China and the US federal gov't.
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hecuba1 year, 6 months ago
While I am no prude or any kind of a saint...I do not really spend any time surfing for porn... soft, light or hardcore...when I do look at the articles posted here on netscape...my question is always..."Yeah they're pretty...but can they talk intelligently about art?"
However, I am a staunch supporter of the First Amendment...and if Google is targeting LGBT and particularly gay male sites; and NOT heterosexual sites...then I'm ready to take to the barracaides!!!
At the same time, I do believe David and JumpMaster have the right idea...boycott the suckers and use another service...
Maybe create our own...Queergle.hot?
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Star_Poet1 year, 6 months ago
Google is a lost cause for most purposes but for taking them as they are.
Yahoo was lost long ago.
Queergle.hot? Now that's funny and inventive. If you have the money, go for it.
I can talk intelligently about art, yet it doesn't make me Gay, just bored and with nothing better to do. LOL
I'd rather appreciate art and not talk about it.
Rainbow
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hecuba1 year, 6 months ago
Being able to talk intelligently about art doesn't make you gay...it doesn't hurt, of course..:-)
Di Vinci's David is probably the best gay porn available today!!! Perhaps as has happened in the past we should put the fig leaf back on...do you think that would make all those macho alpha males happy?
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hecuba1 year, 6 months ago
It's not me in particular that they know is or is not gay...It's the sites themselves we are talking about...not the 'visitors'....Google has 'monitors' who do look at the sites and evaluate the content....just like on Netscape....that is what the controversy here is all about...Yes?
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hecuba1 year, 6 months ago
That is exactly the issue...it seems (and the jury is still out on this) that they are NOT targeting similar heterosexual sites....
As I said earlier...I am not a big fan of these kind of sites either straight or gay....but we are supposed to be a free country...with very serious constitutional rights to freedom of expression....Separate but equal is not okay!
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david_nwpa1 year, 6 months ago
I agree hecuba to a point. We do have freedom of expression. However, this freedom becomes murky when we try to answer whether information posted on the Internet falls within the public domain, since it is available for all to read, or it falls within the private sector, since the data is stored on servers owned by Google and its shareholders. It also seems that Google like many other Internet blog sites act more like newspapers and "print" what they want with the consent of the editors, or navigators, or anchors, or whatever one wants to call the blog monitors.
As I said before, if you do not like Google due to their practices, go to another website, as you have done and protest. Better yet, establish your own website and make all the noise you like.
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hecuba1 year, 6 months ago
And....how does that make it right?
If Google is getting complaints about 'questionable' content..then why not go after all similar sites? Again the issue is whether they are picking and choosing who to go after.
Fair is fair after all....maybe the LGBT community should add complaining about the hetero sites a part of our plan.
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jumpmaster1 year, 6 months ago
I did not realize that there was a rivalry between homosexual females and homosexual males.
"I am tired of lesbians being readily accepted but males with other males is unacceptable."
And who says you cannot learn important stuff by noodling around on Netscape. Yesterday I was all worried about global warming, but today.....
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Poulenc1 year, 6 months ago
Anti-gay discrimination is very sadly a reflexive position--you might call it the default mode.
The answer is always to make people THINK about attitudes that would otherwise go unchallenged--and to apply economic pressure, if at all possible. People must be made to see what they're doing before change is possible....
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Star_Poet1 year, 6 months ago
"People must be made to see..." ???
This is why some people say there is a military wing in the Gay Community.
If people must be made to see, you are in essence forcing them to see what you want them to see, and if that is the case, you've become militant.
What ever happened to the rainbow that "you people" believe in. LOL
Hey, don't look at me. Gays stole the symbol and magic of a rainbow and made it their own personal banner, sometimes for attacks on the heterosexual community.
The magic of the rainbow belongs to all of us equally, and is not solely a Gay symbol.
I'm taking it back.
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david_nwpa1 year, 6 months ago
You want the rainbow back? Ok, take it. You can have it. In that case, we will take Nascar. Better yet, we will take baseball players. MMMM.
No one owns a symbol. The rainbow has come to represent gay and lesbian pride in part because it shows a diversity of colors and an acceptance of the importance of all the colors to make the rainbow shine. One must understand, not all gays nor all straight people are open-minded and accepting people. Accepting diversity in other people takes a long time.
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jumpmaster1 year, 6 months ago
But for lack of better words, don't you think it is time for some people to "get a life"?
Plus, I was poking fun at the whole matter. I mean, we have global warming, global cooling, Iraq, Iran, minimum wage, etc, etc.
I still think that the most effective way to make a statement is to do so with your consumer dollars. The other option would be to have the government regulate it and who in their right minds would want that?
When I fire a company for a bad product or service, I get enough satisfaction from pulling my business away. I don't feel compelled to go on a crusade.
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hecuba1 year, 6 months ago
Yes, you'd think so wouldn't you...?
Most, if not all of us in the LGBT community, would like nothing better than to NOT have to spend so much time responding to bigotry and simple un-informed hatred....There are, as you say, quite a few other pressing problems in the world...
And for what it's worth...I agree 100% with the boycott thing.
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jumpmaster1 year, 6 months ago
I have to admit that I had to look up LGBT. In my industry this is a microelectronic component of a larger electrical product.
Now that I know what it is in this context, this stuff makes more sense.
It was kind of confusing for a while, though.
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mamasan1 year, 6 months ago
If the sites are overtly sexual and feature sex acts and profanity I agree with Google.
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Star_Poet1 year, 6 months ago
Has China bought up Google yet like they did with Yahoo???
That will fix this mess. LOL
China censors everything!!!
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2Labs1 year, 6 months ago
The vast majority of Google users appear to favor non-gay material and dislike gay material (and apparently complain about it). In business it is smart to cater to those who pay the bills. In this case gays don't pay the bills and likely never will. Gays are less than 2% of the market place and despite the media portraying them as wealthy, educated and sophisticated they are no more so than the rest of the population. You are victims of simple economics. Supply and demand. (They got more gay material than people want)
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david_nwpa1 year, 6 months ago
I disagree wholeheartedly and the US Census is on my side. The census reports that closer to 10 percent of the households in the US are same-sex. Gays and lesbians spent closer to 6 Billion dollars last year on travel and tourism because as a general rule they have the excess money to spend since they generally have fewer dependents than the straight community.
However, having said all that, it is also true that gays and lesbians are generally educated better and more sophisticated. It is also true that closet gays make up a far larger portion of the population than most scholars and researchers realize.
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2Labs1 year, 6 months ago
David:
I work in several environments where I interface with gays and lesbians. The only thing that stands out to me where they deviate from the rest of us (aside from their sexual preferences) is that the lesbians (butches) are exceptionally angry all the forkin time. If the gays are all so sophisticated, educated and wealthy why are they doing the nutty rugged in the bushes and out houses at the local park instead if getting expensive sophisticated hotel rooms.
I don't mean to imply that they all do it, but I think your being ignorant if you refuse to recognize that portion of your community that doesn't live up to the Hollywood stereotype.
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hecuba1 year, 6 months ago
So, correct me if I am wrong....by your argument, if a restaurant owner, didn't like, let's say, black people, would it be okay with you that he be able to deny african americans access to his establishment?
If so, I think you will have some problems with the Supreme Court over that.
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Star_Poet1 year, 6 months ago
I'm taking the Rainbow back.
Rainbows are now the sole resource material of magicians, prayer givers, and universe lovers in general.
Rainbows are no longer the sole property of the Gay community.
I'm taking it back.
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