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Google Shopping Cracks Down on Gun-Related Products... Such as BurGUNdy Wine

posted by martyb on Friday March 02 2018, @07:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the under-the-gun-to-do-something dept.

takyon writes:

Google has banned items containing the string "gun" in the name on its e-commerce search platform, accidentally targeting many innocuous items:

Google Shopping, which allows users to compare product prices from thousands of online retailers, has removed all 'gun' search results - even if the product is not gun-related.

Online shoppers have complained about being unable to browse dozens of products such as Burgundy wine, water guns and music by American rock band Guns N' Roses. Searches for products including nail guns, glue guns and Arsenal Football Club's Gunnersaurus dinosaur mascot also returns the message: "Your search did not match any shopping results."

Google has banned weapons listings since 2012, however online shoppers have highlighted certain product unavailability since the Florida school shooting on Valentine's Day which left 17 dead.

The block could be circumvented using alternate terms such as "handgnu" or "fully automatic firearm".

Also at Engadget.

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Friday March 02 2018, @09:23PM (2 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Friday March 02 2018, @09:23PM (#646643) Journal

    I hated, and continue to hate that band to this day for that phony bullshit.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2018, @11:18PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2018, @11:18PM (#646693)

    I disagree, it is near impossible to 100% maintain ideological standpoints as broad as the issues RATM laid out. I liked this quote found on wikipedia.

    "If there's a formula to selling out, I think every band in the world would be doing it," he said. "The fact that you write good songs and you sell too many of them, if everybody in the world knew how to do that they'd do it. It's not something we chose to do...The fact was we got to a point that we were so big that tons of people were showing up at punk-rock clubs, and some clubs were even getting shut down because too many were showing up. We had to make a decision: either break up or remove ourselves from that element. And I'll be damned if I was going to flip fucking burgers. I do what I do best. Selling out is compromising your musical intention and I don't even know how to do that."

    Really now, they are just a band. Their power comes from being able to get out a message. Maybe they're not doing enough in your mind, but I don't see any phony bullshit surrounding them.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @01:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @01:52PM (#647036)

      GG Allin is a great example of a non-phony anti-establishment musician. That motherfucker ate his own dog food, among other things.