This one has been getting a lot of attention.

Google has murdered the AdSense account run by one of the web’s most influential anti-Scientology sites.

Yesterday, the search giant cut off all ads served to Enturbulation, a fledgling site dedicated to promoting activism against the Church of Scientology and all its related organizations. This could have something do with the nature of the ads Google was serving. Many of the Google-driven ads funding the anti-Scientology site were paid for by the Church of Scientology.

“While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers,” read Google’s letter to Enturbulation, a kind of home base for the now famous Anonymous movement. “Since keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.”

This isn’t going over well.  Uninvolved websites are taking issue with Google’s decision, and a lot of previously uninterested people are as well.  If Scientology did indeed pressure Google then a lot of Googlewatchers are now watching Scientology; and they’re not impressed at what’s being done to their favourite company.

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