[smallbeer]

A long read but funny all the same.

Basically The Peoples Cube website was banned from google. They posted an open letter (http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=637) to google accusing them of banning the site because of...

1. Google is retaliating against sites that ridiculed its Google China project.
2. Google has begun to implement its Google China policies in the rest of the free world.
3. A left-leaning Google employee who's got access to the database was suffering a nervous breakdown over the mockery of Marxism on our site, and so he or she dastardly removed/blocked The People's Cube, hoping to "improve" the public discourse by silencing the competition.

Then Matt Cutts (works for google) blogs about the real reason (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-ad...your-own-site/) which was they were using hidden keywords.

It's the comments in the open letter after all this has gone on that are the great bit. The original poster, Red Square, keeps wittering on about conspiratories and secret campaigns because he won't admit that he was in the wrong and was busted.

[cam]

haha brilliant.

good to see some more higher-profile site bans too - hopefully people will learn

[pgo]

Right on, Google.

And fuck those right-wing twats.