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I don't believe that getting recognized as a religion by the IRS gives you the right to receive grants from a private company that are awarded on a competitive
by jellicle 11y ago
I don't believe that getting recognized as a religion by the IRS gives you the right to receive grants from a private company that are awarded on a competitive basis.
Google will happily refuse your ad or your business for a very large number of reasons, many of them quite opaque. Google hasn't refused Scientology, and has actively encouraged them to spread their message. That's a choice they've made, not one forced on them by any law. They should accept the praise/blame for that action - they've earned it.
- jjwiseman 11y agoGoogle used to refuse Scientology ads. I think they began accepting them in 2011.
- kbenson 11y agoI'm not interested in Google becoming in arbiter of what is and is not a religion. I think it's entirely acceptable to fall back on what your national government has defined as religious and non-profit organizations, for exactly the reasons I outlined in my original comment. Similarly, I wouldn't want them making distinctions about political non-profits. I am happy they don't censor some ostensibly Democratically leaning health organizations, and I'll accept that they don't censor the NRA at the same time as the price of their neutrality.