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The post Google used as justification is http://americablog.com/2014/02/ny-city-state-pension-plans-linked-russian-anti-gay-hate-site.html http://americablog.co

The post Google used as justification is http://americablog.com/2014/02/ny-city-state-pension-plans-linked-russian-anti-gay-hate-site.html http://americablog.com/2014/02/ny-city-state-pension-plans-l...

tw04 10y ago
I mean, while I in no way support bullying/harassing/assaulting gay people - google didn't suspend them for reporting on what was going on with VK.com. They suspended them for advocating people call and harass the comptroller of New York. Reporting on an event is one thing. Encouraging people online to call and harass an elected official is something else entirely - and I think it would qualify as harassment.
- Sanddancer 10y ago
  They said call and register your displeasure. That's far from harassment.
  - tw04 10y ago
    Except that's not what they said. What they DID say is: >The LGBT rights group is calling on New York City comptroller Scott Stringer, and New York state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, to contact Usmanov and Tavrin, and demand that content depicting, promoting or extolling the abduction of gays, blacks, Jews and others be taken down from VK.com, and that all accounts associated with such materials be deleted. You're doing yourself no favors by taking liberties with what was said instead of directly quoting the article.
    - Johnny555 10y ago
      I don't understand, you said: They suspended them for advocating people call and harass the comptroller of New York. But the sentence you quoted says no such thing, it says that the group itself is "calling on" (which is not the same as "calling") the comptrollers to do something. The group is not advocating that anyone else call them.
      - flukus 10y ago
        TIL comptrollers are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptroller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptroller . I was wondering why everyone was just rolling with the original typo.
- Lazare 10y ago
  > Encouraging people online to call and harass an elected official is something else entirely - and I think it would qualify as harassment Encouraging people to petition elected officials isn't remotely harassment. That's absurd!
neotek 10y ago
My God, those images are confronting. What kind of hell-hole is Russia that the government would not only allow but excuse that sort of behaviour?

tw04 10y ago

I mean, while I in no way support bullying/harassing/assaulting gay people - google didn't suspend them for reporting on what was going on with VK.com. They suspended them for advocating people call and harass the comptroller of New York. Reporting on an event is one thing. Encouraging people online to call and harass an elected official is something else entirely - and I think it would qualify as harassment.

Sanddancer 10y ago
They said call and register your displeasure. That's far from harassment.
- tw04 10y ago
  Except that's not what they said. What they DID say is: >The LGBT rights group is calling on New York City comptroller Scott Stringer, and New York state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, to contact Usmanov and Tavrin, and demand that content depicting, promoting or extolling the abduction of gays, blacks, Jews and others be taken down from VK.com, and that all accounts associated with such materials be deleted. You're doing yourself no favors by taking liberties with what was said instead of directly quoting the article.
  - Johnny555 10y ago
    I don't understand, you said: They suspended them for advocating people call and harass the comptroller of New York. But the sentence you quoted says no such thing, it says that the group itself is "calling on" (which is not the same as "calling") the comptrollers to do something. The group is not advocating that anyone else call them.
    - flukus 10y ago
      TIL comptrollers are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptroller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptroller . I was wondering why everyone was just rolling with the original typo.
Lazare 10y ago
> Encouraging people online to call and harass an elected official is something else entirely - and I think it would qualify as harassment Encouraging people to petition elected officials isn't remotely harassment. That's absurd!

neotek 10y ago

My God, those images are confronting. What kind of hell-hole is Russia that the government would not only allow but excuse that sort of behaviour?