He's a first hand example of Google's censorship initiative, albeit a relatively minor one.
I just received this notice of an AdSense Publisher Policy Violation.
We've violated the policy against "gambling and games-related content" for a legitimate news story from June 2014 about gambling in Maryland:
This is known as demonitization in that by depriving authors of revenue for their work, they tend to give up or move to other more favorable topics. Other more egregious examples are pushing undesirable content way down in the search results or blocking it from the search altogether.
In the old days, they used to demonitize your whole site if you had ONE/1 page which they say violated their terms.
As a real world example, search on Youtube now for "vaccines are harmful" and you will see nothing but videos about how full of crap people are who say some vaccines may cause problems or be dangerous. Probably similar results for anything the establishment can label a "conspiracy theory."
I just received this notice of an AdSense Publisher Policy Violation.
We've violated the policy against "gambling and games-related content" for a legitimate news story from June 2014 about gambling in Maryland:
Casino Windfall Swells Perryville Budget, But Money is Already Drying Up
This story is part of a series on the lottery and casinos in Maryland called "All In: Maryland's Big Bet on Gambling." By NICHOLAS DUCHESNE, QUINN KELLEY and SARAH SEXTON PERRYVILLE, Md.—With a $5,000 grant from the town of Perryville in…
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This is known as demonitization in that by depriving authors of revenue for their work, they tend to give up or move to other more favorable topics. Other more egregious examples are pushing undesirable content way down in the search results or blocking it from the search altogether.
In the old days, they used to demonitize your whole site if you had ONE/1 page which they say violated their terms.
As a real world example, search on Youtube now for "vaccines are harmful" and you will see nothing but videos about how full of crap people are who say some vaccines may cause problems or be dangerous. Probably similar results for anything the establishment can label a "conspiracy theory."
