Fast Talk

It sounds like Google did declare the blogs as spam, but more due to confusion than anything else. Bloggasm reports that “Google had fallen prey” to some pro Obama campaigners who flagged the anti Obama bloggers as spam. According to a Google spokesperson however, the flag system cannot be manipulated quite so easily. “While we are still investigating, we believe this may have been caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the ‘Just Say No Deal’ network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam. We have restored posting rights to the affected blogs, and it is very important to us that Blogger remain a tool for political debate and free expression,” he said.

It is entirely possible that they did, given that Google has been caught more than once "tracking" where people go after they leave Google.. The Constitution says "the government" can't do such things, but as we all know, it is doing them, witness this morning's headlines about the "Justice" Department having almost finished another program under which the FBI can use race as a criterion to spy on "possible terrorists" in the general population.. So if "the government" is forbidden to spy on us, and it is - and is getting away with it by means of whatever lie - a 'private'( / non-governmental) entity such as Google certainly will try. And unless someone or some group sues them successfully, will likely continue. Freedom of the press belongs to whoever owns the press, after all, not to the general public. Google apparently believes it owns not only its press, but also those of us who use it, and it has been getting away with its version of surveilance of us.. Now - I have to check and see if my blog - 1-NDN-Sez.blogger.com - is still on Google. I'm neither a fan nor a critic of Barack Obama, but I am a critic of John McCain.. especially after he made that idiotic statement about women just need more training, and not further protection under Affirmative Action and he then rolled over to sound just like "W" on everything he previously stood independent of his party on. But hey - I know there's a file on me, and there has been for dona hey years. It's long been a 'crime' in the eyes of some to be female, Indn, and right. Oh, and "outspoken" (I don't ask anyone's permission before I express my opinions; particularly the accurate ones.)

From what I've heard, this is a glitch that happens frequently to bloggers. It just seems like an unfortunate coincidence. And if bloggers are not satisfied with Google, they should just switch over to Wordpress--which says a lot more than trying to blame Google for being non-partisan. Come on. Google may be flawed, but they're not stupid.

Reporting erroneous facts is not in the spirit of Google. Some of these sites blatantly make false statements and make gross misrepresentations of the truth for the sake of an agenda. While they are protected by the First Amendment to do so, they aren't protected by Google's Terms of Use and are subject to penalty accordingly.

Don't think so. It doesn't make sense because people are entitled to their opinions.

THat would not be the correct thing to do however it would be the right thing to do.

Yes. Leftists run all of the major newspapers and most news networks. They fidget with the content they manage.

I didn't think so. Google this, google that, there's a lot more outside, give google guys a break pls

PROBABLY

Loved Carel Two-Eagle's comments above, from over here in UK her perspective fits more closely with many peoples' perception of the surveilence society (Big Brother,1984...20 years out Orwell whereever ya are now!) Good for you pointing out that companies are built of people who all have political agendas, no matter what they say! Google cannot watch every employee all the time, it only takes a minute to switch status to Spam All the unbelievers should look up "Whistle-blower" on ANY search engine and read the treatment of some people who reported their own organisation for illegal practises. Good for ya Carel...SH-J

Probably. The media coverage of Barack Obama has been so favorable and the vetting of the candidate so tepid, that I can believe Google would do such a thing.

Google staff had shown tremendous support for Ron Paul.

Google is a global espionage machine