Following Google’s decision to “omit Web content that the government of the People’s Republic of China finds objectionable’, several websites have removed Google Adsense, the contextual advertising program by Google in protest.
Blogger News Network, one of the websites that acted almost immediately after Google’s announcement has posted the following in their blog:
In response to the decision of Google to gain access to the Chinese market by censoring its search content, Blogger News Network has reached the difficult decision to discontinue running Google’s ads on our service. As a news organization with aspirations to earning public trust, BNN must act ethically in its financial dealings. Accepting money from a company which is putting profit above its ethical obligations to stakeholders would represent a lapse in that ethical stance.
Baseball musings is another website that has their Adsense removed.
Via Inside Google and Google Blogoscoped.
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