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To: steve harris who wrote (395382)	7/1/2008 5:08:09 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1574342

Steve, > Google admits to shutting them down. Would you like to argue with Google? In Ted's case, Google is NOT your friend ... Tenchusatsu

To: steve harris who wrote (395382)	7/1/2008 6:14:36 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574342

On Monday, Google would not explicitly rebut the idea that it had been tricked but said that the cause of the temporary blockage appeared to be elsewhere. "It appears that our anti-spam filters caused some Blogger accounts to be blocked from creating new posts," Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich said in a statement. "While we are still investigating, we believe this may have been caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the 'Just Say No Deal' network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam. We have restored posting rights to the affected blogs, and it is very important to us that Blogger remain a tool for political debate and free expression." Google admits to shutting them down. Would you like to argue with Google? Uh......let me see if I understand you correctly. You are claiming that Google intentionally shut down blogs that were posting anti Obama messages. However, when brought to their attention, they immediately worked to correct the problem and then proceeded to provide an explanation for why it happened. Let me ask you, o wise one, a couple of questions. Why would they even bother to respond if their intent was to shut down those blogs? And why would they bother to try and correct the problem if their intent was to shut down those blogs? Do you ever think through your accusations before making them?