GOOGLE

A few days ago the world's most popular internet search engine, Google, has made a successful debut on the stock exchange... At the beginning of this summer we tried to place some ads on Google for our documentary. The phrase we used for our ads was “American Voices Against Bush.” The ads were immediately CENSORED by Google and our ad campaign terminated. Reason: "Google policy does not permit the advertisement of websites that contain language that advocates against an organisation or individual". We contacted a few journalists in the USA and in Europe. Google is a big name after all and we thought they could be interested in this story. Nobody answered! In this wilderness, only the NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP expressed its concerns with a letter to Mr. Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO. From this letter: "XXI CENTURY is critical of George W. Bush’s actions as President of the United States, which are certainly an issue of public concern and should be subject to discussion in any democracy. As President Theodore Roosevelt once stated, censoring “criticism of the President…is not only unpatriotic and servile, but morally treasonable to the American Public.”