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Google AdSense Censorship

HubPages.com disables advertising on Hubs (its articles) that deal with child abuse. That is HubPages' official policy, but it also disables ads dealing with homosexuality or frank discussions of sexual issues. HubPages at Google AdSense's behest has disabled advertising on G-rated articles about Freud, sexuality, and other adult-oriented topics. The articles use clinical terms and no obscenity or profanity. If the articles were feature films, children unaccompanied by parents would be admitted to movie theaters.

Author/journalis Frank Sanello recently submitted an article on Sigmund Freud’s work, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, to HubPages. After the author published the article, Google Ads were instantaneously disabled by a robotic censor HubPages calls "automatic content filters." HubPages also refused to publish the article although it had no obscene or prurient content.

Another article by the same journalist discussed HubPages/Google AdSense’s censorship and it was instantaneously unpublished because the article, according to HubPages’ robotic censor, allegedly had “duplicate material.”

The "duplicate material" consisted of readers’ comments about the journalist’s articles. To avoid charges of duplication or plagiarism, the author cited the sources of the material, which also consisted of readers comments about other articles written by the journalist dealing with gay rights and child abuse . Most of the article, however, contained original material written specifically for HubPages by the journalist. That didn't prevent HubPages' robot censor from flagging the article as "duplicate material."

The journalist, a gay activist and victim of homophobia, having been fired from a college teaching job because of his sexual orientation, plans to pursue this issue with the ACLU, LAMBDA, and other First Amendment rights organizations.