Google being sued… yet again
By Marques • Apr 16th, 2008 • Category: Google, Lead Story, NewsIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
And again, someone wants a piece of Google’s money.
This time, the honor goes to The Christian Institute. The non-denominational christian charity is suing Google over a refusal from the internet giant to publish advertisements featuring religious and anti-abortion messages on basis of its own policy, according to which it refuses sites mixing religious and abortion views.
The refused ad would be something like
UK abortion law - news and views on abortion from the Christian Institute. www.christian.org.uk
The legal proceedings against Google are based on a possible infringement of the Equality Act 2006 by discriminating against christian groups, and the religious institution is looking for damages, costs and permission to publish the ad.
Although a brief search on Google will clearly show you ads both from abortion clinics and other religious groups (anti-abortion), if it’s their policy (which I fully support) to not want ads that mix both issues, I don’t see much of a discrimination here.
Other sites discussing this issue:
SacredScoop, The Apostolic Report, Womensphere, Valleywag
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I think any entity should be able to decide what types of content, be it posts or ads, they will accept. Everybody’s shouting about being discriminated. Get a grip.
Google has a right to publish or not publish anything it wants! It is a company that isn’t funded by any governments. It’s their right to take money or not from anyone.