"Paola DiNapoli, of PromptPapers, said
the Google policy will 'cause us great harm.' Some companies get up to 80
percent of their business from the Google ads.
According to Robert O'Neil,
director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression,
it's not just about money. 'We are entering a new era,' he said. O'Neil believes
it's just a matter of time before there is a court challenge to big, dominant
Internet companies that restrict advertisements from companies that are not
violating the law. "
While the sites themselves seem sketchy and I don't know why someone would need to buy a term paper, they should just do the work themselves, I don't like this. I don't like that Google can shut down sites by not placing their ads on the sites for something that isn't against the law. It could be an easy jump from this to not placing ads on sites that promote smoking, or claim that global warming isn't real, or if you will attack the republican or democratic party. Would Google be within its rights to ad those limits to where it places its ads, or would that be an infringement of Freedom of Speech. I don't know the answer to that.
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