pigswill
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In itself its not a big deal as CFC has an existing policy of family friendly no smut. It still feels wrong to me that a commercial enterprise sets itself up as a moral crusader.
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bathsheba666
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So, Google owns YouTube.
YouTube has videos.
Does Google permit Google ads next to - for example - Rihanna singing Rude Boy ?
Stench of something here.....
YouTube has videos.
Does Google permit Google ads next to - for example - Rihanna singing Rude Boy ?
Stench of something here.....
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This is weird. Google is the number one smut-locator-peddler in the world. If I want cartoons of things getting F'ed, I don't know what website to go to, I type in Google for that. If I want hot nekkid teens, preggos, elders or whatever, I don't know what website to go to for that, I type in Google. Foot fetishes, bondage fetishes, strangulation fetishes, murder fetishes, actual crime scene photos of raped and murdered people fetishes, there's Google for that.
Mise
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I really don't care if those threads are gone from this particular site. It's not like there is a lack of pictures of naked women on the internet.
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could we just take down the ads on those threads?
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And to think that throughout history, people believed that censorship and free speech restrictions would be effective through government regulation and/or oppression and religion, when in the end, it's corporate marketing departments that are the most effective.
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I wonder how Google feels about images of violence.
Yeah, true that.
But as content owner you normally also always get a change to respond to things like that, if you think they're wrong.
Which wouldn't be the case for the babe thread.
And google will not display ads on these sites, and that's what this is about
.Was mentioned earlier, that's not possible, because ads get displayed on a "per site" basis, not "per thread".
I guess it's not like years ago when it was keywords that largely determined the ads. We got all kinds of ads for dog-related stuff on my Dune site in any thread that mentioned the Lynch movie. The reason was because of the pug dog Patrick Stewart had to carry around for part of the movie. Everyone mentioned it as one of the more ridiculous aspects of the film, so the ad-sense picked up on "pug" and "dog" as keywords and assumed that an internationally-populated science fiction forum centered around discussing literary SF was a good place to advertise purebred pug facilities, breeders, and trainers.
Yea but where does it end. WHERE DOES IT END.
No seriously, where? Google in this policy is very uncommunicative and hypocritical, while also being insanely powerful as an entity. It puts people on edge.
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I think it's still like this, the problem is that it's the other way around.
So someone is paying for ads on this site. If there is space, it'll get used.
If there is nothing relevant on the page, then something will get displayed.
But htere are more than enough companies who wouldn't like to be associated with a collection of mainly naked women. But they will, because you can't determine that directly from the words in the thread (you can't exclude any possible slangword relating to this subject), and also something will just get displayed there. It might also extend to the whole site at all.
e.g. there are probably many companies which wouldn't like to have their ads displayed on an x rated page. But determining what is x rated can be hard, and displaying things on a per page basis under this domain wouldn't work. In this example displaying "respectable" ads on e.g. the impressum of an x rated site would fall within the possibility, because there's probably no problematic content on this site, but the person who's paying for the add would probably not appreciate it.
EDIT: Yes, there are some hard indicators, but that doesn't work everywhere and not reliable, due to grey zones.
And that's the other way around.
To take your example: Any company, which would be interested in getting displayed in threads with boobs, would probably get there. But the other way around is more difficult.
Mise
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I agree that Google is really crappy and hypocritical, but like, is this really news? Do people not know that if you want someone to pay you, you have to do what they say, even if it's stupid?
I can't really get worked up about "the principle of the thing", because it's really nothing new. OTOH, if this had some obviously immoral consequences, e.g. banning adverts/threads for support groups for rape victims or something, then yeah, that's something I'd be willing to fight, but I'm not going to waste my mental capacity for caring about stuff on teenage boys' fap material. Plenty of places to get that stuff on the internet. "Where does it end" - sure, that's the rub. But right now, it doesn't seem to be having any consequences that might trouble my conscience.
Well, pretty soon when you are looking on the internet for a particular book to buy, Google will pop up a message saying they feel that that book is inappropriate for you, and direct you to another title.
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