Google Bans Klanners and They Cry

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Wow, a whole book was written because Google decided they would no longer
sponsor their hatred. If you are on a hate list, you don't need to have
the Internet at all. That is how it is and how it will be.

Keeping someone off a website is not quite enough if they want to murder
all the black people in the world, no, Google needs to prevent them from
being on-line, period.


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Google Issues Ultimatum to Conservative Website: Remove 'Hateful' Article
or Lose Ad Revenue

https://is.gd/1yMxVi

On Tuesday evening, Google sent a conservative website an ultimatum:
remove one of your articles, or lose the ability to make ad revenue on
your website. The website was strong-armed into removing the content, and
then warned that the page was "just an example and that the same
violations may exist on other pages of this website."

"Yesterday morning, we received a very bizarre letter from Google issuing
us an ultimatum," Shane Trejo, media relations director of the Republican
Liberty Caucus of Michigan, wrote on The Liberty Conservative. "Either we
were to remove a particular article or see all of our ad revenues choked
off in an instant. This is the newest method that Big Brother is using to
enforce thought control."

The ultimatum came in the form of an email from Google's ad placement
service AdSense. The email specifically listed an article on The Liberty
Conservative's site, stating that the article violated AdSense's policies.

"As stated in our program policies, Google ads may not be placed on pages
that contain content that: Threatens or advocates harm on oneself or
others; Harasses, intimidates or bullies an individual or group of
individuals; Incites hatred against, promotes discrimination of, or
disparages an individual or group on the basis of their race or ethnic
origin, religion, disability, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual
orientation, gender, gender identity, or other characteristic that is
associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization," the email
stated.

The email warned The Liberty Conservative that it must either remove ads
from that page, or "modify or remove the violating content to meet our
AdSense policies."

"Please be aware that if additional violations are accrued, ad serving
may be disabled to the website listed above," the AdSense email warned.
"Please be aware that the URL above is just an example and that the same
violations may exist on other pages of this website or other sites that
you own."

Trejo argued that the article Google specified "contained no offensive
content." Rather, it "was merely distinguishing the many differences
between the alt-right and literal Nazis."

The Liberty Conservative writer suggested that the article was singled
out because it was written by former Liberty Conservative contributor
James Allsup. Allsup was involved in the "Unite the Right" riot (which
Trejo described as a "rally-turned-riot") in Charlottesville, Va. Trejo
said the article was targeted because "it was authored by a man deemed to
be an 'unperson' by the corporate elite."

"Due to financial constraints, we had to comply with Google's strong-
arming tactics for the time being," Trejo admitted. "An independent
publisher such as The Liberty Conservative needs revenue from the Google
ad platform in order to survive."

Despite this necessary surrender, The Liberty Conservative writer
remained optimistic. "We look forward to the day where rival ad platforms
who respect the intellectual freedom of their customers can outcompete
Google, but those days have not arrived yet," he wrote. "These tech
companies have us all by the short hairs, and post-Charlottesville, they
are all working in unison to enforce the Orwellian nightmare. Nobody is
safe."

Chillingly, Trejo called on "all conservatives and libertarians" to
"realize that the Orwellian nightmare enforced by private hands is just
as harmful to human freedom as if the dystopia was enforced by the hands
of government commissars. The results will be the same, as freedom of
expression will be sacrificed to the God of political correctness."

This was not the first time The Liberty Conservative faced censorship,
Trejo added. "In the past, Facebook banned users from sharing content
immediately after they posted our controversial article criticizing a
'libertarian' Washington D.C. thinktank official who denigrated Ron
Paul," he wrote. But this was the first time the site faced
demonetization.

Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that Google was targeting
critics in academia and journalism. The company has come under fire for
firing senior software engineer James Damore after he published a
controversial memo inside the company. Ironically, he accused Google of
being an "ideological echo chamber," and his dismissal arguably proved
his point.

Following the riots in Charlottesville, one website in particular became
notorious for its hateful attack on Heather Heyer, who died in the riots.
Daily Stormer was a white supremacist, neo-Nazi website, and its article
was genuinely hateful, so the web hosting company GoDaddy gave the site a
24-hour notice before removing the site from the Internet. Google later
announced that it would cancel the domain registration, removing the
possibility of Daily Stormer remaining on the Internet.

Daily Stormer was legitimately hateful, but its removal from the Internet
can set off a slippery slope of Internet blacklisting, which has arguably
already begun. Google's ultimatum to The Liberty Conservative may be the
next step in that direction.

If Trejo is correct, and the article in question was targeted merely
because of its author rather than for any particular "hatred"-inciting
content, AdSense's threat violated its own policies — unless the very
name of a Charlottesville rioter is to be considered "discriminatory"
speech towards minorities.

Daily Stormer was disgusting, and because The Liberty Conservative
article has been removed from the Internet, PJ Media could not ascertain
whether it was legitimately offensive. But even if it was, these attacks
set a dangerous precedent.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a cash cow that uses its
coffers to slander mainstream conservative and Christian organizations as
"hate groups." The SPLC began by tracking real hate groups like the Ku
Klux Klan and black nationalist groups, but later it added mainstream
groups to its list.

The SPLC publishes a list of "hate groups" — along with a "hate map" —
that lists Christian organizations like D. James Kennedy Ministries, the
Family Research Council (FRC), Liberty Counsel, the American Family
Association (AFA), and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), along with other
groups like the American College of Pediatricians and the Center for
Immigration Studies. It also lists Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz as an
"anti-Muslim extremist."

This matters because in the summer of 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins III broke
into the FRC, aiming to murder everyone in the building. Corkins later
pled guilty to committing an act of terrorism and was sentenced to 25
years in prison. During an FBI interrogation, the shooter said he
targeted FRC because it was listed as an "anti-gay group" on the SPLC
website.

The man who shot Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), James Hodgkinson, also
"liked" the SPLC on Facebook, and the SPLC repeatedly attacked Scalise.

Since the events in Charlottesville, the SPLC has received wide support.
George Clooney and his wife Amal pledged $1 million to the group, and
J.P. Morgan pledged $500,000. Apple CEO Tim Cook was even more generous,
announcing his company would give $1 million to the SPLC, that it would
match any donations from employees, and that it would set up a system in
iTunes software to let consumers directly donate to the organization.

CNN broadcast the SPLC's "hate map" on its website and Twitter account
this month (with the FRC still marked on the map). In June, the charity
navigation website GuideStar adopted the SPLC "hate group" list, marking
each profile of the targeted organizations as a "hate group." ABC and NBC
parroted the SPLC's "hate group" label against Alliance Defending Freedom
(ADF) last month.

If Google is targeting websites with any connection to white
supremacists, in order to take them off the Internet after
Charlottesville, and Apple and CNN are partnering with the SPLC to tar
mainstream conservative, Christian, and anti-Islamist groups as on par
with the KKK, it is not a stretch to think that Google might start
targeting mainstream sites next.

Should Google, Apple, and GoDaddy decide to "fight hate" by following the
SPLC and abolishing all of its "hate groups" from the Internet, the Left
would effectively silence the Right overnight.

The Liberty Conservative is not National Review, but it's not Daily
Stormer, either.

Many turn to the words of Lutheran Minister Martin Niemöller, who warned
in the time of the Holocaust, "First they came for the Socialists, and I
did not speak out — Because I was not a Socialist." Then they came for
other groups, and he did not speak out. But: "Then they came for me—and
there was no one left to speak for me."

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First they came for Daily Stormer. Then they came for The Liberty
Conservative. Then they came for the Family Research Council. LGBT
activists speak openly about "punishing the wicked," by which they mean
anyone who refuses to take part in a same-sex wedding.

Internet blacklisting should scare any American who loves free speech.
Every American should speak up about websites being removed from the
Internet, because once tech companies start "fighting hate," it doesn't
end with Daily Stormer or even The Liberty Conservative. The SPLC won't
let it end there. Americans must speak up, or their views might be next
on the blacklist.