[Foundation-l] Advertisements

[White Cat]

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 at wikimedia.org> wrote:

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> David Gerard writes:
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> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/googles-thin-skinned-lawyers/index.html
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> >> 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.
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> 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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