A Brief History of Google Bombing, or; If a Feminist Does It, It’s Wrong, No Matter What “It” Is
Wikipedia has a definition and a history of the practice here. Although the practice has been around a long time, it acheived Internet fame when the tactic was used against G. W. Bush for the terms “miserable failure” and “weapons of mass destruction”; also by Dan Savage, a gay sex columnist, who succeeded in having an obnoxious senator’s name permanently connected via Internet to a sex act he despises. While these acts are undoubtedly political, they have received but little condemnation from others (except those on the receiving end of the google bomb.) Liberal bloggers rushed to particpate in the Google Bombing of Santorum or G.W., and I don’t recall seeing a single word of protest or concern about “search engine integrity results” or “free speech” or “misuse of technology to serve political ends.”
But suddenly, Google Bombing has become a controversial issue with wide-reaching implications for the integrity of the sacred net, because it might ZOMG affect The Sacred Precious Porn, which is of course the epitome of free speech and anyone who dares ever raise a voice in protest of even the most extremly violent and degrading and quasi-legal pornography must be immediately beaten down with a large stick, because if we express any concern about, say, sites which show very young women with no documentation to prove they are, indeed, women and not underage girls, being literally tortured while tied up with tears running down their face, we are on the side of the Taliban. (Consider the complete histrionics over an act of Congress which merely requires internet pornographers to keep proof that their models are, indeed, adults – with all porn created before 1995 conveniently exempt – OMG it will be the end of internet porn and also it’s anti-gay!!!!! There’s some logical connection here I am obviously missing. And funny thing – I haven’t noticed any lack of internet porn in the last year – have you?)
Why has it become controversial all of a sudden? Why, because feminists are doing it, that’s why. Feminists can do no right, didn’t you know that? Everything a feminist does is wrong, even more so than the truism that everything a woman does is wrong. Women can do no right – they can’t breed or not breed, marry, divorce or be single, have sex or not have sex, dress modestly or dress skimpily, have a job or be a housewife – and feminists are even worse, because they dare COMPLAIN about this treatment instead of hanging their heads low and meekly agreeing that they shouldn’t have done whatever it is the patriarchy supporters are complaining about today. So even though liberal bloggers praised Dan Savage’s “Santorum” prank and crowed over GW’s “miserable failure” page, the cries are swiftly mounting now against the horror that is Google bombing because ZOMG the feminists are doing it, therefore it must be for some evil, nefarious plot to ensure no one can ever safely search for anything on the internet again!
Um, excuse me – have any of you dissenters looked at your email lately? Your email account, no matter what it is, daily gets many times more mail from pornographers than it does from anyone you know or want to talk to. Your junk mail/spam filter may or may not filter out most of this, depending on how good it is, but the mere fact that you need one in place to keep from being inundated with hundreds or even thousands of porn ads per day – doesn’t that tell you something? On any given day before I closed comments to this blog, the spam catcher caught ten times as many automated spambot comments as comments from actual persons, almost all advertising either porn websites or pharmaceuticals – mainly viagra. These ads, whether by mail or by automated comment spam, almost never advertise honestly in the subject line that they are a link to a porn site. They try every dodge imaginable to get you to open and read and click on their link. On Google, too, on virtually any topic you search for, by the time you get to the third or fourth page of results, you will find some pornographer’s site who loaded the page with phrases in the background designed to make the site pop up in a search for almost anything.
Does this not mean pornographers are the REAL Google bombers? So if Google Bombing is somehow unethical, would it not make more sense to point your accusing fingers at the worst perpetrators of it?
If you don’t want to condemn the porn spammers for their continual assault on internet search terms and everyone’s email account in an effort to drive business to their woman hating, child abusing websites, kindly STFU about a handful of feminist bloggers merrily linking to photos of squealing kittens under links that promise “Free pussy pics”. Besides – I thought it was FEMINISTS who were supposed to have no sense of humor. Get a grip, people! I’ve been laughing for two days straight – what, you boys don’t think its hilarious? Maybe you’re just hormonal, or over-reacting, or taking yourself too seriously, c’mon, smile like a sweet little boy, or your face will set that way and you’ll get wrinkles – you wouldn’t want to appear old and unattractive now, would you guys? I bet the only reason you don’t find it funny is because some girls picked on you in school when you were little so now you have a chip on your shoulder against women who want fair treatment, so cmon, get over it already, snap out of it, go take your medication. Wassa matta – can’t you take a joke?
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