In a stunning example of naked political contributions by Google to MoveOn.Org, Google’s “Ad” system bans anti-MoveOn.Org ads under spurious claims of “trademark” violations while allowing anti-Blackwater ads (and allowing other anti-non-left-wing-organization ads as well). For more information, see Main Web Report on October 11, 2007, Michelle Malkin on October 11, 2007, and an Examiner report on October 11, 2007.
Since the Left eagerly supported the assertion of Microsoft’s dominance of the market as grounds for protracted anti-trust prosecution, doesn’t the same analysis warrant comparable anti-trust prosecution of Google? Does Google’s dominance of the internet “ad” market, the search-engine market, and the internet-video market give it significantly less dominance than did Microsoft’s dominance of the OS and browser markets?
Since the Left so loved campaign finance “reform” known as “McCain/Feingold” creating a framework for governmental rationing of political speech, shouldn’t the Justice Department begin an investigation of Google’s transparently naked political contribution to MoveOn.Org? Manifestly, such actions by Google constitute in-kind contributions to promotion of candicacies MoveOn.Org favors and as well as in-kind contributions to MoveOn.Org’s opposition to candidacies MoveOn.Org disfavors.
If Equal Protection were to mean anything, it means the answers to both the anti-trust and campaign “finance” questions “yes.” Google’s politically selective application of it’s interpretation of “trademark” laws constite “in kind” political contributions by Google to MoveOn.Org and “in kind” political activity against MoveOn.Org’s opponents.
Is it now time for all non-Leftists currently doing business with GoogleAds to immediately cease doing so? Unless Google were to promptly change its positon, the answer is certainly “yes.” Is it now time for all non-Leftists currently displaying “Google” search-engine tools on their sites to cease doing so? Unless Google were to promptly change its position, the answer is certainly “yes.” Is it time for all non-Leftists to stop using, or linking to, any Google service? Unless Google were to promptly change it’s position, the answer is certanly “yes.”
Has Google used its market positon to attempt to politicize the internet? Yes. Is it time for all non-Leftists to shift all their internet usage away from Google and in favor of some other service that will not use its position to make “in kind” political contributions to organizations such as “MoveOn.Org”? Unless Google were to promptly change its position, the answer is “yes.”
Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.
