[lbo-talk] gmail giveaway

[Leigh Meyers]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Max B. Sawicky
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:39 AM
Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] gmail giveaway


sure.

-----Original Message-----
From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org
[mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]On Behalf Of snit snat
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:03 PM
To: Lame Brained Onanists
Subject: [lbo-talk] gmail giveaway


anybody want a gmail account? I've sent some hotmail/yahoo account 
users at
LOB some invites already, but I have six more.

k
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For your perusal.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Libby
To: drugwar
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 7:53 PM
Subject: [drugwar] Rejected by Google AdShare for my content


So on a whim, I answered my invitation to host a
Google AdShare Ad. I figured with my hit count they
wouldn't bother to answer but they did and they really
irritated me for rejecting me on my content. I'm
guessing they don't even read the sites but send in
some spidery thing and look for trip words instead. My
topic being what it is, would be bound to set off the
alarm system. I was betting no human being ever read
it. This is what they sent me tonight:

Hello Libby,

Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. After
reviewing your application, our program specialists
have found that the website currently associated with
your account does not comply with our policies.
Therefore, we're unable to accept you into Google
AdSense at this time.

We did not approve your application for the reasons
listed below. If you are able to resolve these issues,
please feel free to reply to this email for
reconsideration when you have made the changes.

Issues:

- Drugs or drug paraphernalia

---------------------

Further detail:

Drugs or drug paraphernalia: Google believes strongly
in the freedom of expression and offers broad access
to content across the web without censoring search
results. However, Google policy does not permit the
placement of AdWords ads on sites promoting illicit
drugs or drug paraphernalia. We've found your site
content currently violates this policy. Please review
our policies for a complete list of site content not
allowed on web pages.
 *****
This offended me because it abridges your right to
discuss the problem if the words themselves, apart
from their context, are unacceptable. I replied of
course.

Dear Google Team:

Thank you for reviewing my site. I am aware of and
appreciate your policies however I believe you are
mistaken about the content and intent of my blog.

I do not promote nor advocate for the use of drugs
and/or paraphernalia. What I advocate is the awareness
and acceptance of the fact that drug use (and
abuse)exists in society; that it has always existed
and that no amount of punitive legislation,
interdiction nor ecologically unsound eradication
efforts will solve this problem. My site addresses the
need to change policies and practices that are
currently endangering the planet and the safety of
future generations.

Last One Speaks addresses the abject failure of the
War on Drugs to eliminate the dangers of the black
market and also focuses on how its excesses impact our
civil rights and national treasury. Our current
policies cost the US taxpayer 40 billion dollars a
year, have contributed to an unprecedented and
unwarranted rise in the incarceration rate -(the US is
currently the biggest jailer on the planet)- and with
1 out of 3 black men in America in jail, it is
shredding the family structure of an entire ethnic
class, (notably an economically disadvantaged one) and
destroying the foundation of civil society.

My blog proposes a practical solution to failed,
taxpayer-funded government programs that currently
cause more harm than good. I'm making a political
statement about a controversial issue but I am
certainly not enlisting others into any illegal
activity. I am trying to help them out of it.

Thus I believe my site was rejected under an incorrect
criteria and respectfully request to be listed as
rejected on other grounds.

Thank you for your consideration in advance.

Sincerely,

Libby

I don't think it will sway their decision, but I hope
it makes them think

=====
Libby Spencer
Northampton, MA 01060
Publisher: Last One Speaks
http://lastonespeaks.blogspot.com/
Detroit News
http://info.detnews.com/weblog/
email: baystatebar at yahoo.com



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