Our SEO lead threw his hands in the air and said: "Shit, now I'm going to have to do my job and earn page rank instead of just paying money!"
Next up... gambling sites?
The porn industry has hit back at Google after its decision to ban smutty sites from using its main advertising platform. The search engine's new policy on porn came into force last week and effectively bans any grumble movie makers from promoting their sites using Adwords, a service which puts paid-for advertising next to …
Ah they're not anti-sex as such, just anti any sort that's done outside the married, heterosexual, missionary position (no funny stuff) only bed. There have been total anti-sex religious movements in the past such as the Shakers, but these tend to be a little self-limiting and have a noticeably short shelf-life.
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"There have been total anti-sex religious movements in the past such as the Shakers, but these tend to be a little self-limiting and have a noticeably short shelf-life."
Shakers eyyy. Is that what they call them in your part of the world?
I have always wondered what vegans did when performing oral sex!
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Well, let's think
Naked woman, no problem, can be a nice sight depending on who.
Naked man - yuk
Other mens todgers, no thanks.
Since porn seem to involve todgers I am not a fan of it, doesn't mean I hate sex. Erotica can be pretty good, watching other people bonking is well off putting and boring. I can think of much better things to see, like for example my wife.
Basically porn is a spectator thing, I prefer participation.
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> How about this?
Given the number of porn workers, what's remarkable is the *low* number of people infected and the measures that the industry itself is willing to take to deal with the problem.
Now compare that with the rising number of young people who have not got the Safer Sex message and have contracted STDs...
I'd taken a look at this some weeks ago after being surprised to see a viagra sales link on an NHS page. A quick search with [site:nhs.uk paypal viagra] suggests that despite the NHS saying Google had been working with them on the problem of hacking by internet pharmaceutical vendors the dodgy dealers are still in there.
Can we please block cig ads, alchohol ads, political ads(I don't enjoy being bombarded by the same dodgy politicos I try and ignore in real life while watching youtube), dodgy weight loss ads, the stupidity that youtube ads are where you are listening to a song and in pops an ad that is... a FULL length song from a diff youtube channel...
I don't mind fags and booze being advertised half as much as I despise the number of gambling adverts everywhere. There is a massive advertising drive that's normalising the behaviour. Hell: even the Wonga Loans ad references the fact that the wife is getting the loan to buy a new bed because "they scored a goal, didn't they". Great: Hubby loses a bundle down the bookies so wife takes out a short-term loan.
Ok. Fair enough, it's Google's choice who they allow to use Adwords, after all, it's their service, and we don't automatically have a right to any privately owned service or company.
Bearing in mind this new, apparently moral based stance on who they serve ads to, I take it we can look forward to them refusing to serve ads to weapon manufacturers, tobacco companies, alcohol companies as well as any other industry that has some links with killing people?
No?
Why is sex so uniquely divisive?
Because it's linked to pleasure?
Is it really all because some people are insecure with themselves sexally? Porn addiction is a real thing, but something that would aid that would be increased awareness and more social acceptability. Not trying to hide it. I Iegitimately have trouble trying to understand certain things, and this is one of them. It's one of those times when there's such a huge disconnect between my thoughts and theirs. I can't reconcile it.
Are members of this group all people who have suffered at the hands of pornography? Were they people too oblivious to their own flaws that they got too deep into it and became embarassed when they eventually couldn't get it up in front of their missus? People who where discovered visiting dominatrices when they were married (with children)? Were they offended when a good friend of theirs was revealed to have a cross-dressing fetish? Do they worry their children will suddenly become perverse hellions from watching porn?
Do they realize that the more overtly taboo you make things, the worse certain people start to fetishize and obsess about them? The more socially unacceptable the behaviour, the more difficulty a sufferer has in coming clean about it and seeking help?
I mean, we're talking about consenting adults being paid to do this stuff. It's not child abuse or murder. Hopefully.
And it just seems to be some people; my mother's a christian and not at all prudish, and I am uncomfortably aware that my parents seem to be into some rather perverse things themselves (only natural, really, after 25 years of a successful marriage).
Really, if I want to jerk it to fat swedish lesbians covering themselves in butter and rolling around in a load of mud, why should anyone object to that?
> why should anyone object to that?
Because, as is traditional with with religious lobbies and the Mary Whitehouse Brigade and so on, the objection is "We don't like it, so *you* shouldn't be allowed to see it, just in case it makes you do something bad..."
Unfortunately, as with all such prohibitions, it only makes the "forbidden fruit" even more attractive and does nothing to actually stop the behaviours (such as rape, abuse, misogyny etc) which happen whether or not the viewer has seen it.
Regrettably, however, because of the "shame" that society surrounds such things with, few people are willing to stand up and say "I like this, I want to see it", so the politicians pander to the vocal minority knowing that it will go down well in the hypocritical media (Daily Fail, I'm looking at you) with their claims that they are "protecting" us/ society/ women/ children from harm, when, in fact, they're causing the opposite.
Google have, it seems, fallen for the same short-sighted view.
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Because, as is traditional with with religious lobbies and the Mary Whitehouse Brigade and so on, the objection is "We don't like it, so *you* shouldn't be allowed to see it, just in case it makes you do something bad..."
Actually, their argument tends to be, "We don't like it and we don't want our children seeing it (or liking it), and they might, if you don't censor it."
> Actually, their argument tends to be, "We don't like it and we don't want our children seeing it (or liking it)
No, the "Won't Someone Think of the Children!" argument is just their excuse for trying to ban something that they don't want us seeing.
"Really, if I want to jerk it to fat swedish lesbians covering themselves in butter and rolling around in a load of mud, why should anyone object to that?"
Exactly because You want it. Religion derives its power from guilty, simple as this. One incredible force drive is hysterics.
Step 1: Convince a person that $DEITY will torture him/her for all eternity, if some rules aren't followed.
Step 2: Make the rules. Be sure to make them weird, contradictory and (of course!) going against some primal instinct.
Step 3: As expected, everyone is guilty. Sell (one way or another) salvation.
Step 4: Profit.
That's the reason why sex gets so much flack. We all do it (one way or another), we all like it, and we are all born from it. It is the perfect thing to trip someone's guilt.
I went and looked at the porn harms web site and saw that they had a Dirty Dozen list. Grate I thought ,the top twelve porn sites in the world. No such luck top of the page it says.
We encourage you to join us in publicly recognizing these twelve as responsible parties in the spread of pornography and exploitation. Help us call on them to change their ways.
This list contains the following well know Pornographers:-
Barns & Noble
Verizon
PlayStation
Hilton Hotel Chain
Cosmo
50 Shades of Gray
I think someone should introduce these people to edonky :-)
While they can obviously stop a site from monetizing from Google ads, do they even have the power to stop people from taking out ads? Can't I just go to a reseller of a reseller of Google ads like all those ads that contain zero-day exploits, malware, and fake download buttons do?
Wouldn't that be a better target to kick off the platform anyways?
(I know the article talks about AdWords, but who uses AdWords anymore anyways? I mainly just see the flash-iframes-scripts-etc AdSense ads now.)
"Mountain View made its decision to boot porn off the Adwords network after pressure from a wide-ranging coalition of prudes, parents and pastors.<br><br>
Todd Glider, CEO of a famous porn brand called BaDoink, has penned an open letter to Google in which he attacked Mountain View for kowtowing to the religious lobby."
You don't have to be a religious prude to not want to see porn served up in your search results. Besides which this isn't the porn your parents got to watch. There are some of the sickest fucks out there on the Internet and I for one don't want to know about it.
I'm still trying to figure out how we went from God saying, "Go forth and spread thy Seed", to preachers saying that doing so is Sinful.
And there was a time when I believed that those same preachers were spreading Gods word.
On the other hand, I still haven't found the scripture that talks about lubricants... LOL