Those Of You Relying On Google Are Doing Business With A Criminal Drug Dealing Organization!

[SallyRand]

Google has agreed to pay the FTC $500 MILLION DOLLARS after admitting that it knowingly advertized ILLEGAL DRUG SALES in its advertizing programs!

Google may now be the largest drug dealer in history, rivalling even the Mexiocan and Colombian drug cartels and the fine imposed is a mere pittance of what Google actually received as the result of its CRIMINAL activity!

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/22/goo...html?hpt=hp_t2

"New York (CNN) -- Internet search giant Google is bracing for a fine that could top $500 million, after a federal probe of illegal online pharmacy ads placed on the website over the past three years, CNN has confirmed.

Law enforcement sources tell CNN that federal prosecutors in Rhode Island, along with undercover agents from the Food and Drug Administration, are heading up a massive investigation aimed at showing Google knowingly took advertising money from websites selling highly addictive drugs without a legitimate prescription.

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Providence told CNN he could "neither confirm nor deny" reports of the probe, and Google declined comment "since this is a legal matter."

But in early May, Google filed a notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission saying it was setting aside $500 million to potentially resolve a case with the Department of Justice. In its filing, Google stated only that the matter involved "the use of Google advertising by certain advertisers."

If a fine of $500 million or higher is in fact imposed on Google, legal experts say it would be the largest such penalty in U.S. history.

A recent study by doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Southern California showed a significant expansion in treatment for prescription drug abuse from 2000 to 2007. During those years, the study showed, emergency room admissions for prescription drug abuse rose from 100,000 to 200,000. The study showed states with the greatest expansion of high-speed internet access also had the largest increase in admissions for treatment of prescription drug abuse.

"There's all sorts of drugs one can purchase illegally over the Internet," one of the study's co-authors, Dr. Anupam Jena, told CNN. "So there's narcotics, like OxyContin and Percocet. And there's stimulant medications, sometimes used to treat ADHD -- attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. There are also ... anti-anxiety medications like Ambien or Ativan that people routinely use for the correct indications, but sometimes can be abused."

Furthermore, state regulators and watchdog groups say they have been warning Google and other search engines for years that online pharmacies have been allowed to operate without adequate supervision.

Joseph Califano, the president and founder of Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, warned Google CEO Eric Schmidt of the problem in a 2008 letter. Califano, a former aide to President Lyndon Johnson and a Cabinet secretary under Jimmy Carter, told Schmidt that his research had found "prominent displays of ads for rogue internet pharmacies in a Google search for controlled drugs."

"This suggests that Google is profiting from advertisements for illegal sales of controlled prescription drugs online," Califano wrote. The company never responded, he said.

"I asked him, 'Please, you have to look at what's going on. Why are we having such an explosion of prescription drug abuse among teenagers and kids?'" Califano, now 80, told CNN. "Well, where do they get them?"

Califano warned that illegal online pharmacies are a pipeline for children who want to obtain drugs, and said Google "can do something about this that nobody else can do."

CNN has been breaking news on this story of illegal online drug purchases for several years. In 2008, not long before Califano sent his letter to Google, CNN correspondent Drew Griffin was able to purchase the potentially addictive drug Percocet without seeing or talking to a doctor. He ordered the drug online and within a day, the pills were at the doorstep of his home, the prescription signed by a doctor in Tennessee he had never seen or met.

For Califano, a longtime Washington insider, the ease and availability of online drugs is "a crime."

"To me, it's an example of putting profits over people," he said. "That's what we're talking about here. And it's bad, really bad, because we're talking about kids."

Are you going to contiue to dance with the Devil or are you going to DRIVE traffic to your sites?

[moeloubani]

And you are a man that pretends to be a woman.

You are also a scammer.

I would gladly do business with a drug dealer before I did business with a scamming mind cross dresser. You are disgusting Marion. You should be ashamed of yourself old man.

[DamianJ]

And anyone doing business with you is working with a man who pretends to be a woman who allegedly scams people.

Funny old world.

[wehateporn]

Facebook can very easily be linked to drugs too

[SallyRand]

Originally Posted by moeloubani

And you are a man that pretends to be a woman.

You are also a scammer.

I would gladly do business with a drug dealer before I did business with a scamming mind cross dresser. You are disgusting Marion. You should be ashamed of yourself old man.

So you would quite willingly do business with a proven drug dealer; not an ALLEGED drug dealer but a company which has ADMITTED that it is a drug dealer and agreed to pay a fine for the ILLEGAL activity in which it engaged?

Quite an admission and an interesting example of moral relativism!

What about the children?

[drmadcat]

i love google in every way

[candyflip]

Marion Lynn loves big black cock.

[SallyRand]

In addition to promoting the sale of highly addictive drugs without prescription, Google also engaged in the selling of COUNTERFEIT drugs through the many "Pharma" sites which advertized on the search engine!:

(Jump back in time a month or so!)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/te.../13google.html

"Federal regulators are investigating Google on suspicion of illegally displaying ads for online pharmacies that are operating outside the law, government officials said Thursday.

Google has set aside $500 million to pay for a potential settlement, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing the company made on Tuesday. It said the money was for the ?potential resolution of an investigation by the United States Department of Justice into the use of Google advertising by certain advertisers,? but gave no details.

The United States attorney?s office in Rhode Island is leading the investigation into pharmaceutical advertising on the Web search engine and the Food and Drug Administration and Justice Department are also involved, people briefed on the investigation said.

Google and the Justice Department declined to comment. An F.D.A. spokeswoman confirmed there was a continuing investigation. Jim Martin, a spokesman for the United States attorney?s office in Rhode Island, said, ?We neither confirm or deny the existence of an investigation.?

Web sites are liable for advertising that breaks federal criminal law, according to Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University.

Google has been trying to clean up ads from so-called rogue pharmacies, which sell counterfeit drugs or do not require valid prescriptions. In the last year, Google has made significant changes to its policies for accepting pharmaceutical ads, most recently in January. But Michael Zwibelman, litigation counsel for Google, has described it as ?an ongoing, escalating cat-and-mouse game.?

In February 2010, Google changed its AdWords policy to accept ads only from pharmacies certified by the National Association Boards of Pharmacy in the United States or the Canadian International Pharmacy Association. Previously, Google had accepted ads verified by a company called PharmacyChecker.com.

In September 2010, Google filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against pharmaceutical advertisers that it believed had broken its advertising rules.

?Rogue pharmacies are bad for our users, for legitimate online pharmacies and for the entire e-commerce industry ? so we are going to keep investing time and money to stop these kinds of harmful practices,? Mr. Zwibelman wrote in a company blog post at the time.

It is unclear why the investigation and penalty are coming now, after Google?s cleanup efforts.

Google said the $500 million charge reduced its net income last quarter by 22 percent, to $1.8 billion from $2.3 billion. ?We believe it will not have a material adverse effect on our business,? the company said in the S.E.C. filing.

The investigation is Google?s latest run-in with regulators, who have also been investigating the company on, and in some cases penalizing it for, antitrust issues and privacy violations.

Gabriel Levitt, vice president of PharmacyChecker.com, said that Google?s measures to crack down on rogue pharmacy ads went too far, preventing people from getting drugs they needed.

But critics of online pharmacies say that Google and other Web sites feed the business.

?It?s very hard to police these sites because they change every couple of days,? said Joseph A. Califano Jr., founder of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. ?The only things that keeps them in business are the Googles of the world.?

The focus of the investigation was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on its Web site.

Edward Wyatt and Charlie Savage contributed reporting from Washington.
A version of this article appeared in print on May 13, 2011, on page B1 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. Inquiry Into Google On Drug Ads."

[digitalfantasies]

I've always liked to do business with drug dealing criminals...

[Nikki_Licks]

Boo fucking hoo...

There are worse things going on that are criminal and it is not going to change....

[seeandsee]

how much they earn on that sales?

[DamianJ]

Originally Posted by Nikki_Licks

Boo fucking hoo...

There are worse things going on that are criminal and it is not going to change....

I wish it was criminal to pretend to be a woman and post inane shit on gfy in order to get money from noobs.

[drmadcat]

so basically you want google to be a nanny to us all (you carnt do this you carnt do that)
if you have a problem with google dont use it

[cooldude7]

money talks.

[B.Barnato]

Oh shut the fuck up already you senile twat

[DWB]

The world has hit the point of "no one cares anymore."

No one cares about anything unless it's an Apple product or getting paid. That's it.

[TisMe]

Sally Rand criticizing anyone's business practices is very funny.

[Rochard]

I love how the article talks about illegal drug use, addiction, and internet sales, but never really says exactly what Google was doing. Google accepted an ad from someone. They didn't know if it was a legal drug or addictive or not.

Fucking idiots.

[CaptainHowdy]

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[potter]

Originally Posted by SallyRand

In addition to promoting the sale of highly addictive drugs without prescription, Google also engaged in the selling of COUNTERFEIT drugs through the many "Pharma" sites which advertized on the search engine!:

1. Google never promoted the sale of drugs. Google doesn't promote anything except ad spots. The people who bought ad spots on google are the ones who promoted the sale of drugs.

2. Google never engaged in selling drugs. They spidered and listed a website that did, the owners of that website are the ones that sold drugs.

3. If you cannot understand the difference, you're a moron. This would be like taking google to court for murder, because a gun used in the murder was purchased off a website google lists.

[epitome]

Funny since you were the one that got busted spamming comment sections to get more traffic from .... wait for it .... Google.

It's ok though, everybody here already knows you're a hypocrite. No foul.

[charlie g]

Brilliant marketing strategy Eric!!! Bone Prone & nicks stir up the shit but this stealth geriatric troll is ingenious Lotsa views. Must be expensive hiring a writer as brilliant as the sally rand creator. Had me fooled for a couple of years.

[JamesGw]

I see what you did there.