Google flagged at least seven anti-Obama blogs as spam and shut them down at least temporarily. It seems that the targeted blogs (click for list) were not conservative but rather pro-Hillary. For example, "Hillary or Bust" has moved from Google's blogspot to a new URL while Nobama has moved from blogspot to wordpress. It is not clear yet whether (see update) this move was by Google's political arm or the result of a dirty tricks campaign by Obama supporters.
UPDATE: Google is now suggesting another possibility: "While we are still investigating, we believe this may have been caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the “Just Say No Deal” network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam."
UPDATE II: The New York Times now has this story (but no new info).
UPDATE: Google is now suggesting another possibility: "While we are still investigating, we believe this may have been caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the “Just Say No Deal” network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam."
UPDATE II: The New York Times now has this story (but no new info).
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Google needs to take responsibility for censoring these blogs by publicly apologizing and pledge to never censor content again...force them to change or else we will blog on non-Google platforms: https://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/stop-google-censorship
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