Thursday, August 30, 2018

Google is a Draconian Lord

A good while ago, I wrote a couple of posts debunking a list of anti-semitic quote-mines and fabrications. After a while, Google's adSense informed me this post violated some policy, but the violation was unclearly described - essentially amounting to 'either copyright violation or hate-speech', and therefore, adSense would no longer have ads on this blog.

I don't make much money off of adSense, I've probably earned like 20€ in the whole time my two main blogs have been in operation. The earnings will only be available to me once they reach 70€, so ... however, the earnings were roughly 50% from this blog, 50% from the other, so ... this basically doubles the time until I will receive any of that money.

I did ask for a review of this decision, and was given an automatic response. There's no more ways of disputing it.

Fuck you google. Sincerely, fuck you.

A debunking of an anti-semitic fabrication is hate-speech? Or is it that the quoting of a list is copyright violation, a list that is of unknown provenance, that has been making the rounds over office fax machines, in far-right newspapers, in e-mails and mailing lists, ..? Even if it were copyrighted, I claim fair use! But in all the decades it's been making the rounds, no one has ever made a copyright claim.

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