As a homeschooler, I am soooo in the camp of “don’t deny freedoms unless you’re ready to lose your own.” BUT—This isn’t a freedom issue. Google and blogs and web servers are private companies. If they want my business they will meet my terms. Period. Boycotts are good. I’d be willing to use one of the other search engines/blogs instead of google to help make a point. i would refuse to read blogs posted on those services that refuse to take down bad blogs– and make it very public why i was refusing to do so and WHOM i would support.
Even if Google doesn’t suffer for my little boycott, then at least it will HELP whomever else i choose to use. Put your mouse where your mouth is

In case you missed it, our friend Stacy Harp of Active Christian Media was on Fox News yesterday discussing Google’s refusal to remove pedophilia blogs from their site.

I can’t equate the right to express one’s religious beliefs with the right to find child sexual victims. There are certain types of behavior, such as solicitation for murder, which aren’t protected under the first amendment and shouldn’t be. Children can’t make informed decisions regarding free expression, which is why they are a protected class.

Google is a private business, and has the right to drop any site they find objectionable. They can kick away any business they don’t want to their own detriment, but child predators shouldn’t have a place to hide, anywhere. There are jails for people abetting child predation, and possibly huge civil judgments for those enabling child rapists and murderers. Googhle has the same legal responsiblity as any landlord not to rent to a destructive and dangerous tenant.

However.

We must apply what I call “The Hillary Test” to any potential restriction of liberties: Would you want the power you propose to use for good in Hillary Clinton’s hands?

While you and I agree that pedophiles must be stopped from inflicting harm on children, you know very well that an awful lot of people out there find what you and I write to be pretty objectionable, too. Should Google ban our sites for promoting “hate speech”, or inciting people to harm, say, homosexuals or Muslims?

I know that isn’t what we propose, but you know all too well that’s what many people think. As much as it pains me to agree with liberals on this issue, I don’t want some kid at Google HQ deciding whether my thoughts are socially acceptable.

A child cannot consent. To advocate sex between an adult and a child is to argue for evil. Thank you for being alert and speaking out on this. I have not much doubt that someone will be offended. All of the rest of us will give you a more honest title.
Hero.

Update: Credit goes to Jared Keller, a blogger-friend from way back, for discovering the perverted fools.
Stacy has posted her FOX segment.
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