| Francis Hwang on Mon, 24 Mar 2003 03:05:57 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: <nettime> Chuck0: Google News rejects Infoshop News; Indymedia and blogs next? |
> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 20:35:25 -0500 > From: Chuck0 <[email protected]> > To: LBO-talk > Subject: Google News rejects Infoshop News; Indymedia and blogs next? > > Google News rejects Infoshop News; Indymedia and blogs next? > > from Chuck0 > March 21, 2003 News changes fast. If Chuck0 is referring to the case of Unknown News, that case has been more or less resolved. More here: http://www.unknownnews.net/google.html It's hard to say what actually goes inside a big company, but from reading the emails it sounds like the Google ad sales staff saw a controversial ad and wanted to reject it for being controversial. These aren't journalists or academics, keep in mind: They're ad sales. When pressed, at first, they invented dumb knee-jerk reasons for rejection (the suggestion that the slogan "What Would Jesus Bomb?" is hate speech is embarrassing at best). Then later they back down and apologize. I was fairly nervous when I saw the headline for this show up in my blog aggregator: Google's been making some moves recently that make me quite suspect of it. (This is compounded, of course, by a market dominance that almost makes Google more of a part of the infrastructure than an independent service.) But it would seem that, in this case, Google has not gone over to The Dark Side. Yet. F. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]