Google seems quick to judge some content as “wrongthink.”
Claremont Institute President Ryan P. Williams tweeted that his organization’s advertisements are being blocked on bogus charges. He claimed that Google operatives were “punishing us for our political thought by refusing to let us advertise to our own readers.” He elaborated that his organization sought to advertise an upcoming May 11 gala, “But Google refuses to allow us to do so.”
Williams tweeted a “thread on Google suppression of free thought” May 5. The thread explained that he had launched a campaign to “engage our fellow citizens in discussion and debate about what it means to be an American.” He reached out to people such as venture capitalist Jeff Giesea, Human Events Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam, as well as the president and his son Donald Trump Jr.
The intent of the campaign was to show the “increasingly existential danger of identity politics” and “political correctness” to American unity. “As if to prove our point, Google has judged our argument as wrongthink that should be forbidden.”
He speculated that what made Google upset was his recent essay calling for American unity “Defend America — Defeat Multiculturalism.” He assumed that Google “decided it in violation of their policy on ‘race and ethnicity in personalized advertising.’”
He said he assumed the policy his article violated, however preposterously, might have been Google’s rules against “racially or ethnically oriented publications, racially or ethnically oriented universities, racial or ethnic dating.”
By contrast, he says that his organization “has spent 40 yrs teaching all who are willing to listen” elaborating further that “the meaning of the proposition that all humans are created equal is America's central principle.”
