An update from Steve Rosenbaum on Google’s Adword Censorship affair I have gotten fired up into this week: Steve reports no answer from Google Adwords yet.Meanwhile back in the bat cave the videos have emerged at http://lebop.blogspot.com/ on site called the Lebanese Political Journal, hosted at Google’s BlogSpot service. I have it on good word that Steve and Co. are proud of it…

From the Site:

Introducing the LPJ Video Site!

Dear LPJ visitors, You might have noticed a new colorful feature on your right-hand side while accessing our website. This TV-looking window is the link to a new feature we freshly introduced: The Lebanese Political Journal Video Site. After we mastered text blogging, time now for video blogging! LPJ, and in collaboration with Magnify.net, allows you to submit, share and rate videos related to Lebanon and Lebanese Politics!Videos are an excellent way to reveal truths and to show hidden facts that no text is good to describe! After signing up in our video section, you will be welcome to bring in all your relevant videos. First-Hand videos (posted by the source filmer) will be appreciated the most!

This critical period through which our dear country is passing is the ideal time to start such an interactive feature!

Let the World Watch what all the Lebanese are witnessing daily with LPJ Video!

I call it ironic because I seem to be finding so much irony around Blogspot lately. Let me give you the quick hit list:

• The World Cup- The Internet “Red Card” (Blogspot Injection Vulnerabilty)
• The Core Four at Revenews (Looks at technological and revenue concentration risk)
• On Blocking Blogs in India and JS Injection (government censorship)

During my e-mail exchange with Steve he noted:

“They should have paid attention already. The fact that they didn’t is scary.” Steve wants a correction from Google that it was a mistake and to re-instate the campaign. (Rightly so Steve, although after analyzing the potential economics of the campaign I think you would be better served through BlogAds- or going to Overture where the prices are inline.) Perhaps most importantly, Steve wishes, that the person who dinged the campaign understands that sites talking about world affairs are not ‘distasteful’.

It is an important battle folks.

When corporations, especially powerful ones whose primary mission it is to organize the world’s knowledge can close off the dissemenation of information, no matter how well meaning…we move one step closer to losing our freedom of communication.

Come on Google- Let’s get back to Don’t Be Evil- and move on to organizing the world’s information and letting it flow.

Afterall- advertising is information too.

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