Dec
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Sabotage by Google
December 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment
There’s a certain danger to making use of the “Ads by Google” feature that is available to users of Blogger and other similar services. Take for example the case of Philokalia Republic, a fine blog run by Kevin Jones who is perfectly sound, as far as I can see, in matters of faith and morals, and yet today his blog sported an ad for Illinois abortion clinics–generated at random simply by virtue of Kevin’s many attacks on the morality of abortion.
Last year I noted a similar phenomenon occurring with use of the CafePress thingamajigg, which sometimes displays Catholic, sometimes anti-Catholic merchandise in its little window when used on a Catholic blog. I think that one has since been fixed, but using “Ads by Google” is clearly playing with fire.
