There are some very unsettling things coming from Google this week. If you do a shopping search for firearms-related products using Google, you will now get back nothing. Google is censoring their results for firearms and ammunition. This will effectively put an end to an era of ease when comparing gun prices from different merchants. Customers will now have to research their firearms purchases manually at individual websites. Google has made great strides in the past on eliminating Internet censorship, but the California-based company seems to have it in for the firearms industry—and they are not alone.
Many companies do not accept advertising from firearms dealers. A&E and Disney own the History Channel; they do not allow firearms advertising of any kind on their broadcast networks. That’s right, you are not allowed to advertise guns on a station filled with shows about guns, such as Top Shot. It does not end there. Firearms merchants raced to run commercials on the popular show called Sons of Guns, which airs on the Discovery Channel. Same rules apply—no advertising of firearms related products or ammunition. Discovery also owns the Military Channel, so no dice there either. News Corporation owns Fox Sports, which does not allow gun ads to run during their UFC fights. It is okay to show bloody fighters beating the tar out of one another, but a commercial about duck hunting ammo is taboo. Kudos to NBC Sports, formerly Versus, for carrying 3-Gun Nation and Hot Shots.
Unfortunately, it does not stop with your television. Our beloved uncensored Internet is not immune to the anti-gun sentiment. Long before Google jumped on the firearms censorship bandwagon, Facebook decided that they would not allow gun ads to run on their site. It was okay to have a brand page, but they would not take money to run ads. Here is a little insider lesson on how Facebook ads work. If a company posts something on their wall, a certain percentage of their followers will see it in their news feeds. If you buy ads, many more will see your ad. The difference in customer reach is so vast that it would be unwise not to try to run ads on Facebook.
Surprisingly, Amazon.com just changed their most recent policy and now allows some gun parts on their site. This is a step in the right direction, but we as advocates of the Second Amendment have a long way to go.
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Ebay at some point in the last few years started allowing selling of gun parts where before it was not allowed... sounds like google is going to be making a financial mistake.
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That is crazy. Just when I thought Google was one of the last remaining pillars of free speech. I know their motto is "Do no evil" so I wonder if they label gun ownership as "doing evil". It's rediculous, but it's whatever in the end. You can still get guns, parts, and ammo online it just takes a little more time when using Google. It is definitely corporate suicide though. I wonder if they used their own search engine and researched the huge explosion of gun purchases as of recent?
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well when all those BILLIONS of un backed wall-street $$$ ends up in googles bank accounts they let that go to their heads. now they think their some kind of "internet god" and will only let you search for what they want to let you find?
what BS!--
i hope googles wall street backers loose their ass, besides i never really saw anything worth billions about a fricking search engine anyway.
now a censored search engine can't be worth much.
i bet it can still find all the gay porn you want, along with pro-obama sites! LOL!
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When does this start? I just did 5 different firearms related searches using Google for guns, and reloading supplies, and all gave me results that allowed me to find the info I requested.
So is this coming soon or what?
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It's just the shooping feature so you can't compare prices easily. It started a while ago, well a few weeks ago or so I noticed it. You can go to individual sites though it's just the GooGle Shopping application.
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YEA I NOTICED EBAY WAS ALLOWING BARRELS TO BE SOLD AGAIN THEY HAD STOPPED THIS SEVERAL YEARS AGO BUT MUST HAVE RELIZED THEY WERE LOOSING MILLIONS AN CHANGED THERE MIND.
AT SOME POINT THEY MAY BE A WAR IN WHICH THOSE WITH OUT GUNS AILL TAKE ON THOSE WITH . WANA MAKE A BET WHAT SIDE WILL WIN?????
Google has become strange almost a watchdog for Big Brother Asking for personal info and such I suggest using Bing No problems so far with firearms and ammo related items
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