Google, Citing MoveOn Trademark, Dumps Collins Ads

GOOGLE, CITING MOVEON TRADEMARK, DUMPS COLLINS ADS
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
Google has removed paid ads posted by the reelection campaign of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), raising questions about whether the search engine is relying on a narrow view of trademark law to put the kibosh on political speech aimed at one of its public policy allies, MoveOn.org The Collins campaign posted several ads last weekend that included the name of MoveOn, the liberal political advocacy group that has already started to run negative ads about Sen Collins on Maine TV stations. A few days after the Collins ads went up, Google notified the campaign that the ads had been taken down, because MoveOn had claimed trademark violations.
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