[LINK] Convergence Review Interim Report
Tom Worthington
tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
Sat Dec 17 10:02:59 AEDT 2011
On 15/12/11 18:53, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> ...website - complete with advertisement for alcohol. This seems to be in
> breach of the code...
Having time of day restrictions on when content is available does not
make a lot of sense on the web.
Google label their AdWords ads with a family status: "family safe"
"non-family safe" or "adult." The definitions differ based on country:
http://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=69787
Also Google have some curious rules about alcohol: "Google AdWords
allows alcoholic beverages like beer, cider, sake, wine, and champagne,
but we don't allow hard alcohol and liquor":
http://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=1308252&topic=1310883&answer=176005
Of course this is well down the slippery slope of web censorship. You
might think keeping alcohol ads from children is a good thing, but the
same system can be used to ban ads for such dangerous products as "how
to change your religion", "votes for women", "opposition political
party" and "democracy".
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