vorticity Wrote:Actually, this doesn't have anything to do with the law about obscenity. Google can't sell ads to advertisers on sites where there's porn, so they push that requirement onto websites that use AdSense.I've noticed that, really, the major credit card companies also have the same "gives us the willies" reaction to porn, they seem to want it to go away as bad as the moral guardians... as well as the payment processors. There's one adult provider that I know the proprietor personally, and he's on something like his third or fourth one of those.
I will say, it's probably not about the law, it's more likely they're just trying very, very, very hard not to get the call "we're asking you be boycott unless you pull the plug".
Quote:There are companies who do sell ads on porn sites, but they're generally for other porn sites.I recall those. Granted, in this case, the separation is quite understandable. I've seen those ads on some sites, and it seems like I just can't hit Back fast enough.
Quote:So its an advertiser issue, though Google has final say, so to speak, due to its monopoly power. But can Google be faulted for its infamously bad customer service? Yep.It is always an advertiser issue. Even worse are the ones like the Gamespot debacle 5-6 years ago, where an advertiser complained about a review, spooked the PTB at Gamespot, they canned the writer in an overreaction.... and found that the reputation that they'd carefully built over a decade was blown away inside of two weeks as a consequence of that. In fact, I think they've basically had the complete slide into irrelevance, where now they're just a glorified forum.
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