David Gerard writes:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/googles-thin-skinned-lawyers/index....
From Google Ads terms of service:
"5. Prohibited Uses. You shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: ? (xi) engage in any action or practice that reflects poorly on Google or otherwise disparages or devalues Google's reputation or goodwill."
So much for NPOV.
You may be sure that such a term of service would not survive any negotiations between Google and Wikimedia. (Note: not arguing for ads here -- just saying that I now make a practice of removing unreasonable terms from contracts that WMF enters into. This turns out not to be as problematic as you might imagine, especially when the other party wants to deal with you badly enough.)
--Mike
Right. And that adds to the problem. If Nazis started using the advertisement field...
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org wrote:
David Gerard writes:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/googles-thin-skinned-lawyers/index....
From Google Ads terms of service:
"5. Prohibited Uses. You shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: ? (xi) engage in any action or practice that reflects poorly on Google or otherwise disparages or devalues Google's reputation or goodwill."
So much for NPOV.
You may be sure that such a term of service would not survive any negotiations between Google and Wikimedia. (Note: not arguing for ads here -- just saying that I now make a practice of removing unreasonable terms from contracts that WMF enters into. This turns out not to be as problematic as you might imagine, especially when the other party wants to deal with you badly enough.)
--Mike
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