Euthanasia Censorship by Google

Here is a time line of Googles attempts to stifle - censor - search results for a Pro Euthanasia web site, Euthanasia Clinic.com.

Oct, 2006 - Google Refuses Access

Google denies EuthanasiaClinic.com access to their Adwords campaign.

However, after discussing this denial of service with Google I was satisfied that they had decided to deny all Euthanasia site advertising. I was wrong...

Nov, 2006 - Google Removes EuthanasiaClinic.com from their search engine

The EuthanasiaClinic.com web site was listed in the Google search engine in October of 2006 and was number 3 on the first page of a search for 'Euthanasia Clinic', but after communicating my concerns over the commercial censorship of my web site to Google Adwords ...

On November 9, 2006 I discovered that the index page for EuthanasiaClinic.com had been removed from the Google Search engine thereby making EuthanasiaClinic.com impossible to find with any Google search.

The Results of a Google Search for a specific Web Site Nov 9, 2006

Your search - http://www.euthanasiaclinic.com - did not match any documents.

From Google Webmaster Tools, Nov 9, 2006

No pages from your site are currently included in Google's index.

I can only conclude that a specific effort was made to remove this web site from the Google search engine sometime after October of 2006, when I filed my complaint against their prohibition of my web site's Adwords campaign.

An Internet search company chooses which topics it will list. Not only in what order they will be listed, but whether they will be listed at all.

While Google may say that they have a right to set standards for advertising with Google Adwords, to remove a sites index page from their search engine is censorship. If allowed for EuthanasiaClinic.com then Google in effect takes on the role of internet censor for all web sites. This corporate censorship is more harmful than government censorship since it occurs without oversight or regulation.

EuthanasiaClinic.com is a web site that may offer a controversial point of view that may be in opposition to the religious or social standards of those in charge at Google, but it is a web site that deserves exposure as it discusses an issue that directly effects every person now living on the planet Earth.

Dec, 2006 - Google Threatens to Cancel My Sponsored Links Account

This, quoted from an email received, (Dec 14, 2006), from Google after I had informed them that they were sponsoring some Euthanasia web sites while denying access to mine:

Please know that if you submit these ads again, we will be
unable to run any of your AdWords ads in the future.

For your account to remain active in the future, please make the
following changes to your ad text/site content:

Please remove all reference to sensitive content. (n.b. Euthanasia!)

Additionally, please do not open any new AdWords accounts. If you do,
your newly opened accounts will be suspended upon registration and your
account fee will not be refunded.

Feb, 2007: Google you're killing me.

Google, after threatening to close my account for trying to gain recognition for this site through their paid advertising program because they wanted to avoid 'any' Euthanasia advertising, and after removing my web site from their search engine without explanation or recourse, has begun again to post some Euthanasia web sites in their paid advertising links program.

Feb 11, 2007:
A search for 'euthanasia' disclosed these sponsored links on the first, second, and third page.

Of course if I tried again to gain recognition with the Google links program, as these sites have done, I would be banned permanently. Threats made to me don't seem to have been made to one of the sites which is apparently associated with the Catholic church, although I had specifically pointed this site out to Google as one example of a euthanasia site which they were allowing to use Adwords while prohibiting mine. It was at that point that I was threatened with being permanently banned.

On the Internet you are what you find... and Google is trying damned hard to make sure you don't find EuthanasiaClinic.com

As shown on the search results page for 'euthanasia' Feb 11, 2007:

Sponsored Links

[I took out the actual links figuring Google is doing enough for them that they do not need my help as well]