Google resists pressure to pull LGBT "conversion therapy" app

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18. That's not the point.

The point is whether it's legal. If it has been made illegal, I'm not aware of that and stand corrected, since that would change everything.

It's the flip side of, say, abortion. Can't you see that? Do you want Google & FB & Twitter to start blocking anything that is legal but which it thinks isn't a good idea?

Free speech protects ads for abortion clinics or any legal thing, no matter that many think the subject of the ads is reprehensible and horrible or harmful.

Unless there's something illegal about the place, like they are forcing people to go through their so-called therapy, there is no legal basis for Google not to run it. Unless Google starts making ad hoc decisions on what it thinks people should see or know about. And that's dangerous. That's why free speech laws exist.

Maybe Google will drop the promos. I don't know. But that's a slippery slope, is all I'm saying. The next time, Google may, on its own, decide not to carry something that you think people should know about, but which is controversial.