According to conservative news site WorldNetDaily, Google notified site administrators of plans to block Google ads on WND content.
Google representatives objected to WND’s repeated use of the phrase “black mobs” during a two-year run of articles focused on black-on-white crime. The phrase “black mobs” appeared in more than 670 WND stories.
Google cited its AdSense policies, which prohibit discriminatory statements and hate speech based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or veteran status.
According to the official Google policy on hate speech, “while Google believes strongly in the freedom of expression, we also recognize the need to protect the quality of the AdSense network for users, advertisers and publishers. As such, Google does not allow the monetization of hate speech or any other content that is intended to insult, offend or intimidate an individual or group.”
Google policies also protect against content that makes “sweeping generalizations about a group.”
WND Editor Joseph Farah published an editorial defending WND against hate speech claims and accusing Google of censorship of “First Amendment-protected media.”
According to Farah, the phrase “black mobs” as used in WND content was not hate speech. In his editorial, he said the use of “black mobs” was “not hate speech (but) the reporting of facts.” He went on to call WND’s race-baiting articles “courageous reporting.”
Farah displayed willful ignorance in his dismissal of hate speech accusations. A quick search of related articles on WND brings up a host of stories with headlines such as “Black mob violence based on ‘collective mental illness,’” “Black attack: Robbing, stabbing, shooting, arson” and “White girl: ‘I’m tired of being looked at like prey.’ ”
A similar search of “white mobs” turned up no relevant results. Articles concerning crimes committed by white people were far fewer in number and rarely had race featured in the headline.
WND was clearly crafting a narrative through headlines and articles that made use of terms such as “black mobs.” Farah explicitly stated that it was part of the WND agenda to publicize “black-on-white violence.”
Through the storm of more than 670 race-baiting stories, WND repeatedly pushed a white-victimization complex and attempted to paint violence as a characteristic of the black community. Many articles used loaded, incendiary language typical of racist rhetoric. An editorial published in November 2013 titled “Obama, Oprah, media to blame for black mobs” staked the claim that “hatred against whites is reinforced and encouraged.”
WND’s “black mobs” articles absolutely violated Google’s AdSense hate speech policies. The articles made sweeping negative generalizations based on race; promoted content that discriminated based on race; and used race-based epithets.
Farah went on to defend WND’s repeated publication of “black mobs” articles on the grounds of the right to free speech.
Under the First Amendment, WND is free to publish hate speech without interference from the government or any other public entity. But it is important to note that free-speech rights do not entitle private entities, such as WND, to protections from other private entities, such as Google.
Furthermore, Google’s actions do not constitute censorship. Google did not pull WND content from public access or blacklist the site. WND is still free to publish whatever content it wishes. Google simply refused WND the opportunity to turn ad revenues on articles that contained hate speech prohibited under Google AdSense policies.
WND ultimately chose to disconnect Google ads from disputed content.
Google made the right decision in blocking ads from the “black mobs” articles. WND’s black violence narrative has a real, adverse effect on the justice system.
According to the Pew Research Center, African-American men were six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated in 2010. American Progress reports that African-Americans were twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police. The U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that African-American federal offenders receive sentences that are 10 percent longer than white offenders for the same crime.
WND’s “black mobs” articles constituted hate speech and created a narrative that perpetuates racial disparities in the justice system.
Opinion columnist Megan Kallus is a pre-business freshman and may be reached at [email protected]
Another example of Political Correctness. People shouldn’t be allowed to know about the black mobs that are attacking whites in knockout games(polar bear hunting) throughout the United States since it doesn’t fit the politically correct pro-diversity narrative. Black on white violent crime is grossly disproportionate compared to white on black violent crime.
32 Black gangbangers arrested in hate crime roundup for targeting White people
Black mob attacks pregnant White woman
Black mobs attacking whites at Wisconsin State Fair
Black mob attacks White family in Ohio
White woman viciously attacked by Black mob – Buffalo, NY
Black mob attacks Whites in Baltimore
Mob Of Black Teens Attack Disabled Veteran In Ohio
Black mob attacks White tourist while onlookers laugh
Black youths beat up White man for kicks, no hate crime there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8YIZtmVa4c
Black Flash Mobs Rob Several Chicago Area Stores
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN7BaG2JQHk
Black mob violence in downtown Detroit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO_9ydR8ULs
Black mobs in Houston, Black man grabs White woman in car
That’s a long list of videos about Black racists attacking White people. That’s something you would never see on MSNBC, which would have you believe all Blacks are angels and can never be racist against whites.
“Google made the right decision in blocking ads from the “black mobs”
articles. WND’s black violence narrative has a real, adverse effect on
the justice system.”
Google made the wrong decision. The coverup of Black mob attacks on whites needs to stop. People need to be aware of this problem. If White mob attacks on Blacks were occured as often as these racist Black mob attacks, MSNBC, CNN, and The Daily Cougar would be doing everything they can to raise awareness. However Whites are not a protected victim class and their suffering is not important to the media.
WND’s “black mobs” articles absolutely violated Google’s AdSense hate
speech policies. The articles made sweeping negative generalizations
based on race; promoted content that discriminated based on race; and
used race-based epithets.
Yeah, don’t talk about “black mobs” or “thugs”. No one should know about that. Let White people be unaware so that they will unknowingly be caught up in anti-white attacks and become victims.
“Furthermore, Google’s actions do not constitute censorship.”
It is censorship. They want to get rid of the ad revenue that keeps the website going.
Censorship by proxy. You will not find honesty in this article
Its sad that Joseph Farah and Colin Flaherty had to expose the media’s blatant coverup of Black on White crimes, especially Black mob attacks and knockout games. It does not serve the corporate media and their anti-white allies the political gains that they can achieve with the Duke Lacrosse Rape case or other supposed White on Black crimes.
If people want to learn more about Black mob attacks on Whites and media coverup please read the book “White Girl Bleed a Lot”
Interesting comment. I will have to check that book out. I can’t see any reason why hate crimes against white people should be ignored
I’ve read “White Girl Bleed a Lot” and it is a good book. I wish more people would read it.
Only naive Whites would believe that if they are brutalized under racist hate crimes, the justice system will admit it was a hate crime.
The media’s denial of the Black mob epidemic is obvious. Especially if it results in white victims of hate crimes.
I doubt the author of this article would have a problem with the phrase “White Mobs” being used. Be honest, you don’t want people to be see how racist Black mobs are attacking Whites. It doesn’t fit the narrative that minorities are always the victims and whites are always the oppressors. Anti-White hate crimes exist. Black mobs attacking whites exist, and this needs to be addressed.
Whites need to learn from us Asians on how to fight against Black hate-crime attacks
Fed up Asians boycott Black racism and hate crimes
That video is another reason I’m proud to be Asian. White people need to stick up for each other when they are targeted in racial attacks. Don’t let the media or college professors tell you that you need to be ashamed for being White or that it is racist for you to fight for White civil rights. Whites should have the right to walk safely without being attacked by Black racists.
If those students attacked by racist Blacks were White instead of Asian, Megan Callus would want them to shut up because its racist for White people to talk about being victims of hate crimes.
Yeah, Caucasians are indoctrinated that its bad for us to have the same racial unity that Blacks have when they are victims of crimes. I’m not going to buy that B.S. spread by anti-whites. Whites need to wake up and smell the coffee. Political correctness and DIEversity won’t help you if you are the victim of a racial attack.
Megan Kallus wrote: “According to the Pew Research Center, African-American men were six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated in 2010.”
Here are some more interesting facts that you left out:
“Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men.”
“The numbers don’t lie: young black men do commit about 50% of the murders in the U.S. ”
Read more: Don’t Ignore Race in Christopher Lane’s Murder | TIME.com http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/22/viewpoint-dont-ignore-race-in-christopher-lanes-murder/#ixzz2uQ18vbxZ
The Daily Cougar has more hate speech in its featured articles than World Net Daily ever had. The Daily Cougar never has articles exposing anti-white racial attacks, but they love to write about racist Whites. Very Biased
“WND’s black violence narrative has a real, adverse effect on the justice system.”
What about the phony liberal, PC media(including the Daily Cougar) that love to portray Whites as racist and oppressing minorities?
If CNN and MSNBC were concerned about Black youths engaging in knockout games against Whites, WND wouldn’t have as many readers. Many White people are tired of the anti-white bias in the media. Did CNN or MSNBC care to report the gruesome murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom the same way the reported White on Black crimes? No, because those horrendous savage attacks by a group of 4 Black males and 1 Black female that resulted in the rape and torture of a White couple does not warrant the same reporting that would occur if the races were reversed. It was only brought to the attention of the national media after Whites were demonized for making a big deal about it. As I’m sure Ms. Kallus would suggest, they should have kept their outrage to themselves since the victims of the barbaric crimes were Whites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SwXZT5JT7V8/UhLEhd9cdkI/AAAAAAAALVQ/tHfo6vEBtog/s1600/newsom.jpg
I forgot to add that both were murdered and butchered. The details of the atrocities are disgusting but should be known. Imagine what Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Quanell X, and the authors of the Daily Cougar would say if the same thing happened to a Black couple by a group of 4 Whites males and 1 White female.
Hi Gang: I’m getting ready to write a story about dozens of recent episodes of black mob violence and black on white crime at the University of Cinncinnatti. Many ignored in the student paper and the local press. I’ve done similar stories at Universities all over the country. So, Megan Kallus, think I should stop?
Thank you for raising awareness about an important, yet largely unknown issue. If the races were reversed, I have no doubt in my mind that the American academia would invite you to speak at the Universities. I could even imagine Megan Kallus writing a positive review of your book “White Girl Bleed Alot.”
So Megan Kallus dedicates an entire article in support of google censorship and criticism of WND as a “hate speech website.” Where is her condemnation for the racist attacks committed by Black mobs against Whites? …………. Crickets chirping
The Daily Cougar(along with the Huffington Post, CNN, and MSNBC) repeatedly
push a black-victimization complex and attempt to paint racism as a
characteristic of the white community.
The Daily Cougar is a hate speech website because it does exactly what Megan Callus accuses WND of doing. Almost every day there is an article portraying whites as racist and pushing either a black-victimization complex or a minority-victimization complex.
I’m sorry, I misspelled Megan’s last name, which is spelled Kallus.
This censorship is rich coming from Google. Soon Google may censor websites that criticize their deep involvement with the government in spying on innocent citizens.
NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid
Revealed: Google and Facebook DID allow NSA access to
data and were in talks to set up ‘spying rooms’ despite denials by
Zuckerberg and Page over PRISM project
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337863/PRISM-Google-Facebook-DID-allow-NSA-access-data-talks-set-spying-rooms-despite-denials-Zuckerberg-Page-controversial-project.html#ixzz2uZYd9cJ8
All white people (and Asians) need to ban The Daily Couger. I wonder why academia and the MSM feel that blacks must be protected at all costs? Why? What do they get out of it? It’s a mystery. I am glad WMD is sticking to thier guns and not backing down from a cabal of media thugs. Good on them. Megan Kallus sounds like an idiot and people ought to ask her some tough questions like why is it ok for blacks to be violent and so bad for others to notice? Do not back down people.
Megan “Clueless” Kallus, I am going to make a few assumptions about you. From your identification at the end of the article, you are a pre-business freshman. i can assume that you are not a white male who spent 30 years growing up right next door to a “projects” in Chicago, like I did. (LATHROP HOMES- DIVERSEY AND CLYBORN)
I am going to assume that you did not have to travel in groups with white friends or
with black friends in order to not get attacked for being a “polar bear”.
I am going to assume that you have formed your opinions based on information
that you have heard from some third party, because you certainly have not experienced how brutal black racism can be.
I am going to assume that you have not had the experience of visiting one of
your white friends in the hospital as they recover from a brutal unprovoked attack by a black mob……..or visiting the same friend again as he recovers from another
brutal unprovoked attack from another black mob.
I am going to assume that you feel proud that you have spoken out against
these “race baiting” articles because, even though you have not researched them
by getting FIRST PERSON facts, they couldn’t possibly be true, I mean, OMG!
Megan, your opinion means nothing if you have not lived the experience. Do some
real work and seek out the victims of these attacks and get the real facts…. then
write another opinion piece. I look forward to reading it.
So let me get this straight: when Blacks commit mob violence, it results in more Blacks getting arrested.” And????? Conversely, when Blacks commit obvious hate crimes and are engaing in ever-increasing violence against Whites, talking about it is White hate speech.
Libtards have got to be the dumbest, most self-extinctive humans on the planet.