Google sued for aborting anti-abortion ad

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Melissa Gira Grant

04/10/08 05:40PM

Filed to: online advertising

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A UK-based anti-abortion organization just wants you to keep your baby — and their own high search ranking. So when the Christian Institute's ad for "news and views on abortion" was denied by Google on the grounds that it mingled religion too closely with anti-choice politics, they sued. It's not that Google doesn't ever take pro-lifers ads. Secularian anti-abortion site Stand Up, Girl turns up on searches for abortion, "abortion good," and "abortion wrong." All that Google's saying to the Christian Institute is that so long as Jesus stays on the sidelines, they're happy taking ads for fetusporn sites.

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NotJulia Melissa Gira Grant 04/11/08 08:11AM

@matto since they own 60% US and 90% UK market share for the Internet (and yes the search engine IS the Internet for most people). They are in your Dell boxes, Mozilla browsers, etc... They have bought their way into the hearts and minds of the country (when does the revolution start?!).

cowsandmilk Melissa Gira Grant 04/10/08 06:08PM

secularian??? is that a word? I think you mean secular.

matto Melissa Gira Grant 04/10/08 06:16PM

Since when was Google required by law to do business with anyone they don't want to?