Google has announced that it will no longer allow advertising to depict sexual acts and other types of pornography.
The company sent an e-mail to advertising accounts saying that anyone using the Google AdWords system that it will restrict ads containing or linking to any sexually explicit content. The announcement follows a meeting in May between Google and groups such as Morality in Media, Concerned Women for America and Focus on the Family.
“We are grateful that they are realizing that their profits from porn are not worth the devastation to children and families,” Morality in Media said in a statement.
In addition to the new restrictions on advertising, Google has increased policies for apps that can be sold through the Google Play store. Apps that contain or promote sexually explicit or erotic content are no longer permitted and Google has removed several apps from the site that violated those policies.
Google has been part of the “Dirty Dozen” list released each year by PornHarms.com, a listing that shows the biggest contributors to sexual exploitation in America. Google is on the 2014 list, released just before the announcement of the changes. Other major companies on the list include Verizon, Barnes & Noble and Cosmopolitan magazine.
Planned Parenthood has been launching a social media campaign attacking NBC, claiming the network refused a commercial for a movie that contains the word “abortion”.
However, NBC says the representatives of the movie never contacted them regarding any interest in buying spots to promote their movie.
Planned Parenthood’s president released a statement slamming the network with the propaganda claim that the “vast majority” of Americans support abortion and that the network “belongs in another decade” for not running commercials for the movie Obvious Child. They ran a campaign on twitter telling NBC to “stop the stigma” of abortion.
NBC released a statement saying that the claims of the pro-abortion group are false.
“No final spots were submitted to NBC broadcast standards for on-air consideration and NBC broadcast advertising sales was never contacted about a media buy on NBC for spots related to this movie,” explained an NBC spokesperson. “Moreover, initial feedback from our broadcast standards group did not include any suggestion to remove a specific word.”
The movie, which Newsbusters’ Katie Yoder reviewed as “little more than slick pro-abortion” political propaganda, is being presented as a romantic comedy about a character who gets an abortion after becoming pregnant from a one night stand.
