Google's Censorship Machine Doesn't like My Opinions

For over five years now, Google AdSense has been e-mailing me with grievances regarding the content on Mental Discharge. While I've made some adjustments and temporarily placed a few pieces in storage, such attempts at appeasement still haven't made them happy. They not only have declined to serve ads on certain articles, but have restricted ads in general across the entire site. Their issues range from "adult content" to material that is "dangerous or derogatory."

Derogatory? Sure, I'll take it. Adult? Eh, this ain't exactly a kid's site. Dangerous? Only if you're reading this on your phone while driving. Google has been whining about this long before the relaunch of the site last year, but they have yet to get specific about what is raising red and yellow flags. Before, it was more or less a beef with dick and fart jokes. Today, complaints are now filed under a category labeled "unreliable and harmful claims."

Okay, thems fightin' words.

There is no support department on Google's end that I can correspond with to resolve these issues. I can't provide context, explain that MD represents mere opinions, or dive into any specifics that can help make an advertiser offering to show me Kat Timpf's AI nudes feel more comfortable. The AdSense Policy Center explains that questioning elections, rejecting the efficacy of the clot shot, and contradicting "authoritative" scientific consensus on climate change are just some of the examples that fall under an umbrella of horribly frightening ideas nobody is allowed to have.

I suppose this makes sense. Expressing disagreement with established norms, holding opinions that contradict narratives, and refusing to align with corrupt government institutions are now handled by complex algorithms on all platforms. It's hard-coded into these applications that such positions are unacceptable. This not only affects advertisements on MD, but the ability for people to find us on Google at all, despite being readily discoverable on virtually every other search engine. Using Google's Search Console for any insight only offers vague technical jargon regarding the lack of indexing for certain pages and ultimately provides no solutions.

There is no irony richer than a company that once took pride in not being evil crushing dissenting opinions. Google brands my content as harmful while major mainstream media outlets globally churn out endless streams of easily disprovable lies presented as truths. The garbage they publish on a daily basis affects tens of millions of people, far more dangerous than anything I could ever come close to reaching, yet are decked out with completely working Google advertising.

Sure, AdSense sets the rules for playing in their backyard. If I don't like it, alternative search engines and much smaller platforms exist. However, Google says that I, Steven Cleamer, intrepid nobody, could significantly undermine public trust with my dangerously hot takes. Public trust? Moi? The largest disinformation company in the world that has silenced medical professionals, politicians, movie stars, radio hosts, and television personalities holds me in this incredibly high esteem when I can't even get DoorDash to show up with my dinner on time.

Claims and opinions are not always the same. I'm not an expert at anything. I hold no degrees. I can be wrong, certainly disagreed with, and more than happy to have such convictions challenged. I'm just some middle-aged guy who thinks wearing masks outside by yourself is stupid and cutting your dick off in order to feel joy is insane.

It's not Google's job to determine an opinion as harmful. That's up to you. You're a grown-ass adult capable of doing that completely on your own. An advertiser that might have a problem seeing their product or service associated with my theory that Jim Henson was a time traveler who went back to the 1980's and made The Dark Crystal to warn us about Anthony Fauci is by no means being unreasonable. Nonetheless, Google getting upset that I quoted an N-bomb from a sniveling adolescent Call of Duty player suffering from Asperger's while ads freely appear on articles whining about how sleeping is racist because white people do it is fucking retarded.