TV Tropes Self-Censoring Under Google Pressure

mvdwege writes "The popular wiki TV Tropes, a site dedicated to the discussion of various tropes, clichés and other common devices in fiction has suddenly decided to put various of its pages behind a 'possibly family-unsafe' content warning, apparently due to pressure by Google withdrawing its ads. What puzzles me most is the content that is put behind this warning. TV Tropes features no explicit sexual content, and no explicit violence. It does of course discuss these things, as is its remit, but without actual explicit depictions. In fact, something as relatively innocuous as children being raised by two females, whatever the reason are put behind the content warning, even if the page itself doesn't take a stand on the issue, merely satisfying itself by describing the occurence of this in fiction."

Ahmurkuns 'n Ruhpublicuns

[Anonymous Coward]

There's nothing like a family with two daddies and no mommies to really get a Republican arous... err... angry.

That's not the real reason

[AdmiralXyz]

The real reason behind Google pulling their advertising is pressure from governments and schools to increase worker/student productivity, and if you think I'm kidding, you've never been to TvTropes. As far as a free-time black hole, it's orders of magnitude worse than Facebook.

Re:describing a family is family unfriendly?

[Fast Thick Pants]

In retaliation, Google can lower the Human Rights Campaign's pagerank.

Re:Ahmurkuns 'n Ruhpublicuns

[Anonymous Coward]

My dad occasionally brought us presents after my parents separated. Once he brought my sister a book called The Daddy machine. [amazon.com]

After he left my mom opened the book out of curiosity and discovered that the kids in the story had 2 mothers. She read the back cover which indicated that the publisher catered to kids with gay parents. My mom had thought that my dad was trying to subtly say that she was a lesbian and ripped him a new ass over the phone while my sisters and I laughed our asses off at the whole "two mommies" thing, which is funny when you're a kid.

It was an honest mistake, because he picked it up from a big store chain in haste and couldn't tell just from a glance of the cover.

Not Evil

[Anonymous Coward]

Google is doing a service by warning users they are visiting tv tropes, so they have a chance to escape.

Re:The tyranny of children...

[Anonymous Coward]

As a mature adult, I object to having every aspect of my media dumbed down
to avoid inflicting the truth on children.

I'm entitled to be entertained at levels significantly above 5th grade.

Not all of us are average ;-)

Yet you post to slashdot.

Re:Song of Songs

[Anonymous Coward]

Better yet, Ezekiel 23:20, "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."

Re:Google

[hardboiled.tequila]

"Doing evil without being evil."

Fixed that for ya.

Re:Google

[dfenstrate]

On the flip side, there are plenty of mediocre people who are enamored with their supposed intellect. They have way too much say as well.

Re:Google

[phantomfive]

Honestly, is there any other kind of idiot? Be careful how much you insult them; are you so sure you aren't one? Like Socrates said, "be more aware of the man who thinks he is wise than the man who thinks he is a fool." OK he didn't say that exactly, but close.

Re:Google

[ultranova]

On the flip side, there are plenty of mediocre people who are enamored with their supposed intellect.

They're not the flip side, they are the "idiots who don't realize they are idiots".

Re:Google

[sempir]

In this /.'rs opinion this behaviour is perfectly acceptable.

Re:Google

[Jedi Alec]

You've got to admit that the idea of a google tank rolling through the streets of Baghdad taking pictures and sniffing wifi is as funny as it is disconcerting...especially if it has the logo in big friendly letters plastered all over it ;-)

As for fighter jets...not really Google's style. I reckon they'd go for unmanned attack drones. Which would kill everything in sight but would follow the instructions in robots.txt to the letter.

Re:Google

[Chrisq]

"less family friendly" about two women raising kids?

Its non biblical. They should do the decent thing, like when God and the Holy Spirit had Jesus, both being male they had him addopted by a decent Hetro couple.

Re:Google

[PopeRatzo]

If you've ever read anything on tvtropes, you'll realize that that's the standard way...

One hates in-jokes even more than people who speak of themselves in the second or third person.

It is really starting to annoy me now, so it better start putting that lotion on its skin.

Re:Google

[Hal_Porter]

Maybe if we start using expressions like CHRIST'S FAT COCK he'll stop talking to us and we'll win by default.

Re:Google

[Quiet_Desperation]

Like Socrates said, "be more aware of the man who thinks he is wise than the man who thinks he is a fool." OK he didn't say that exactly, but close.

The exact quote was "I pity the fool who trusts other fools who don't know they be fools". It's from his tell-all scroll "Socrates It To Me! - The Life And Times Of A Gonzo Philosopher" published in 402 BC by Spartan Press. It was rated 4 Zeus lightning bolts out of 5 by the most popular news runners of the day.

Re:Google

[Unequivocal]

Thanks - at least now I know where Mr. T trained in rhetoric.