<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:33 AM, webmind <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:webmind@puscii.nl">webmind@puscii.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">What would you think about google fascilitating</div>
phishing? Or something else that's more obviously illegal? </blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>But that's the exact issue here, while Scientology is not especially popular in many places around the world, especially spots in Europe, in the US it's still a completely legal and registered religion just like Judaism, Christianity, or anything else. So while you personally might not like Scientology, and there might be a lot of public outcry about some of what they are doing, in the US they are still a 100% legal religion and Google, as a US company can not discriminate based on religion. It's illegal for them to say "we won't sell ads to this religion" </div>
<div><br></div><div>This isn't a choice, it's not something the higher ups at google are passively supporting, They legally can't turn down the ads.</div><div><br></div><div>-s </div></div><br>-- <br>Sean Bonner<br>
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