(The Bolen Report) Google Shuts Down Quackbuster Discussion GroupOpinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Google, the owner of the famous search engine, also runs a series of
Discussion Groups, called "Google Groups." For as long as anyone can
remember there has been a Discussion Group called
"misc.health.alternative." But no longer. Yesterday, Google shut it
down, claiming the group violated Google's "Terms Of Service."
It was never known who started the group, nor who managed it. But it
was always clear that it was a forum for bashing cutting edge health
care, for the most part by posters using a fake name, and more often
than not, those posters viciously attacked, using the most offensive
language and suggestions of odd sexual preferences.
Some of the internet's nastiest posters got their start here. "Orac
the Nipple Ripper," for instance, reveled here, belittling his
betters until, of course, his identity was revealed, and the attack
on him was reversed. Avoiding the sting, he ran for his own Blog,
where he could control the posted comments about his writings.
But Google shut it down, quite ceremoniously...
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Tim Bolen
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