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Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites on its Blogger Platform

Submitted by Warner Todd Huston on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 14:48

Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites on its Blogger Platform
-By Warner Todd Huston

It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to go through its many thousands of blogs to lock out the owners of anti-Obama blogs so that the noObama message is effectively squelched. Thus far, Google has terminated the access by blog owners to 7 such sites and the list may be growing. Boy, it must be nice for Barack Obama to have an ally powerful enough to silence his opponents like that!

It isn't just conservative sites that Google's Blogger platform is eliminating. For instance, www.comealongway.blogspot.com has been frozen and this one is a Hillary supporting site. The operator of Come a Long Way has a mirror site off the Blogspot platform and has today posted this notice:

I used to have a happy internet home on Blogger: www.comealongway.blogspot.com. Then on Wednesday night, June 25, I received the following e-mail:

Dear Blogger user,

This is a message from the Blogger team.

Your blog, at http://comealongway.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog. You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

It turns out that there is an interesting pattern where it concerns the blogs that Google's Blogspot team have summarily locked down on their service. They all belong to the Just Say No Deal coalition, a group of blogs that are standing against the Obama campaign. It seems the largest portion of these blogs are Hillary supporting blogs, too.

All I can say is, WOW! If Google is willing to abuse its power like this even against fellow leftists, what does it plan against conservatives, the folks Google hates even more!?

Here is a list of the Blogspot blogs that have been frozen by Google thus far:

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I just posted about Liberals trampling on free expression

Submitted by GOP_Rebel on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 15:14.

(and privacy rights) - and now this.  At least they haven't published the names, phone numbers, home addresses and work locations of all these Just Say No Deal coalition members. 

But yes, this is really creepy.  And it underlines the problem with people who have strong partisanship being responsible for developing and owning technology along with its associated platforms. 

Maybe if and when the word gets out on this travesty, it will spur young Libertarian and Conservative web developers to become more creative and innovative in answer to this form of Liberal fascism.  But what do we expect from an organization that suppressed freedom of expression in China and provided similar real time satellite technology to the world, including Hamas and Al Qaeda, that Jack Bauer was able to get on '24'? 

Trust me

Submitted by Denny. Alaska on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 17:53.

Don Young will not even make it through the primary this election cycle.  He's made a total a** of himself of late: yelling at other candidates and remarking to the news media that his "only" constitutents are those who voted for him.  There's change afoot in Alaska, and Don's going to suffer because of it. Arrogance always comes back to bite.

Sean Parnell, the current Lt. Governor, is a strong Republican candidate.  Ethan Berkowitz is an equally strong candidate on the Democratic side.  The campaign and vote for Alaska's lone Congressman will be interesting.

But it won't include oosik-wielding Don, thankfully.

 

 

To be fair to google..

Submitted by Rensen on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 20:12.

Policy is to shut down any blog that is reported as spam until it is investigated.

The blame here falls on the Obama supporters who got together in a massive effort to report the blogs as spam. If 200 reports come in on a blog, what else are they goin to do?

Google does need to find a way to close this loophole that the Obamanation are using though..