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pinksugarsub -> RE: Google Accepts Racists Advetising (6/13/2008 7:51:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: tsatske
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Google is a publically traded company and it owes its responsibility to its stockholders, not to the preservation of the dignity of Fillipina womanhood. If a company is willing to buy ad banners promoting their fillipina porn site or mail order bride business etc - then thats revenue on Googles balance sheet and it is their duty to take that money. Google isnt a public service, it is a business.
DomAviator,
My sons' say they are in favor of the world being a 'Marketocracy', instead of, say, a democracy or oligarchy.
As I tell them all the time when we have simular conversations - this is exactly why i have such a responsibility to vote with my dollar. If i find something a company does, it's advertising, or the advertising it accepts, offensive enough, then i quit giving them my money. If enough people agree with me, then the 'bottom line' for stock holders is adversely effected by the decission i found offensive, and the company thinks twice before doing it again.
The companies only responsibility is to its stockholders, therefore, its only responsibility is to talk me into giving them my money. It does not, however, follow, that i have a responsibility to give them my money. They must earn that, and somehow manage not to lose the privilage of my money, and if they offend me, then they will lose it. That is the way the whole 'only responsibility is to the stock holders' thing works - that is the system of checks and balances in play.
That said, why would 'hot Filipino women' be any more offensive than any other porn? Because they are saying that some men find women sexy because they are of a certain race? well, that happens to be true. Are you saying that Filipinos are an at risk population - less able to protect themselves from certain types of influence from these advertisements or companies?
i liked that term "Marketocacy' tsatske. Interesting.
i never visit porn sites, so i don't have any basis for comparision.
i have no special knowledge of any womens' rights issues faced by Filipino women as compared to women generally. (i'm assuming the term means women from the Phillipines, and i couldn't locate that on a globe if i tried.)
The Op was much more narrow, tsatske. Does Google accept advertising revenues which result in racist ads?
IMO, 'Happy Slip Productions' made a good case that, at least in this instance, Google had done just that. i looked at the banner and the site, read the commentary and agreed.
i tried, as i said, to find a way to contact Google and register my concern about this, but i never found one.
As i said in the Op, it was not my intention to generate a discussion of racism in general.
Hope that clarifies things.
pinksugarsub
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