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Google AdSense and firearms
Google's ads have some interesting limitations. For one thing, Google won't let you run ads if your site features "Sales or promotion of weapons or ammunition". It's listed next to porn, illegal drugs, fake term papers, etc. One blogger has been banned simply because his blog discusses firearms. And, despite their policy statement, it turns out that they actually do accept porn sites. Anyone have a tip on advertising services that don't ban firearms-related sites?
Comments
Those rules aren't meant to be read strictly, as witness, for instance, the ban on "...advocacy against any group, individual, or organization". If read strictly, that would rule out almost all weblogs, and most of the rest of the web, too. They'd likely accept your website, if you applied -- it is, after all, much more about legal issues than about the guns themselves.
Posted by: Norman Yarvin at January 22, 2007 01:09 PM
Google doesn't have a problem with terorists using their weapons to kill our men on the ground in Iraq in fact they are happy to help with the latest satellite images. British troops are contemplating suing Google http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/13/wgoogle13.xml
for injuries sustained as a result of aiding and abeting by sat. images published by Google.
Posted by: The Mechanic at January 22, 2007 01:33 PM
I agree with the above commenter. However, I'd like to know exactly what the limits are. What can and can't you write about?
Posted by: John at January 22, 2007 01:49 PM
I don't sell a thing, but they definitely don't like me. I don't recall how they phrased it, but they basically said that my advocacy for the Second Amendment made me ineligable for GoogleAds.
Posted by: GLN Admin at January 23, 2007 08:26 AM
Google, of course, will soon render itself irrelevant. Help them along by not accessing thier sites.
Posted by: rexrs at January 23, 2007 11:12 AM
Any tips on what to use instead of Adsense?
Posted by: John at January 23, 2007 01:00 PM