A company that sells t-shirts is complaining that its Google AdWords was rejected. The owner says it's a free speech issue. How often do you hear this when it has nothing to do with the government's regulation of speech? You can say what you want, no one is required to give (or sell) you a forum in which to do it.
It really is tiresome how some people will start protesting that their rights are being violated when they aren't allowed to do whatever they please. No one has stopped the company from selling the shirts. The site, yque.com, can be found through the search engine. The only thing it can't do is advertise a site that is, in Google's opinion, a violation of their guidelines for acceptable Ad Words content.
Posted by marybeth at April 29, 2004 07:57 AM Internet