Aaron Greenspan Posted March 6, 2009 that he won his law suit against Google.
He did so on the huffington post’s website.
He was suing over having is Adsense account closed.
Anyone who has an adsense account has the dread of one day not being able to login in and see the daily erning from click-throughs and when that happens Google often doesn’t give much insight to why the account was closed. Mr. Greenspan did not set out on his quest to sue Google once his account was closed, but only to find out why.
A resonably request.
He even sited Habeas corpus, but Google said that did not apply and he signed their Terms of Service (TOS) that allows Google to terminate for any reason.
Some of the key information that he brought to light in his efforts were:
- Knowing only that I was somehow posing "a significant risk" to advertisers, I e-mailed Google to ask about exactly what had happened.
- Being unable to speak with anybody about why he was a risk. He did a fair amount of leg work in his accounting of the whole process.
- Raised "Adsense for domains" as something he could have used, IF it existed just 2 days prior to his account termination.
- Sedo : where he could park his domain and still get Google Ads on his website, but at only a fraction of what Google was paying directly
- Once in court the paralegal sited, "Google can terminate your account for any reason," which got Aron’s reply of ,"Not any reason," I said. "Not because I have blue eyes. Or brown eyes." (vaild point)
and lastly I’ll post his summation and encourge everyone who has account that may one day be, or had already been subject to the an unjust and unexplained Adsense closure to heed:
"But it’s not fair!" Google’s paralegal protested. "What if everyone whose account was canceled sued Google?"
It’s a valid question. Yet until Google changes its policies to become more transparent, which might also reassure skeptics that AdWords and AdSense, which have oddly limited reporting capabilities, aren’t just two sides of the same ponzi scheme (for why else would one want to terminate legitimate accounts with high monthly liabilities when they’re supposed to be making money for Google on each click?)–I will give this answer:
Maybe everyone whose account was canceled, should.
Thank you Aaron Greenspan. You have opened the door to what should not be so hard to force open.
Thank you Arr
