Comments on: London’s Met Police running adverts on Google

By: ZEROPOINTNINE Unfinished since 2002.

ZEROPOINTNINE Unfinished since 2002. — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:11:03 +0000

[...] Met Police are looking for informers. Via Harry Haddock. [...]

By: revinkevin

revinkevin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:36:50 +0000

As the Met police will have to pay for each time some one clicks on one of those google adds, I suggest everyone who sees one clicks on it.

By: exit, pursued by a bear

exit, pursued by a bear — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:32:59 +0000

Are there no left-wing terrorists?

By: Interesting… « Nation of Shopkeepers

Interesting… « Nation of Shopkeepers — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:18:28 +0000

[...] Posted on January 5, 2009 by Harry Haddock Here. Technical fuck-wittery, or an indication of the mindset of the modern, BBC / Nu Labour aligned [...]

By: IanVisits

IanVisits — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:53:32 +0000

Unfortunately, as I am not allowed to click on the Google advert, there is no point the Met Police advertising on my site to reach me directly.

(You can dig into the Google admin tool to find the destination URL – but it is a pain)

This just smells of the Met Police getting involved in “political policing” which is a worry.

By: petoskystone

petoskystone — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:20:56 +0000

perhaps it is the libertiarian leanings which trigger the met police to think that you disprove so highly of right-wing rhetoric that if you knew of anyone, you would report it. why would the police target your blog if they thought you were the danger? rather, if you were the suspected right-winger, the police would be targeting people who read your blog, or who work with you. after all, why would the police want to tip off a suspected ‘extremist’?

By: dar

dar — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:26:30 +0000

our goose is cooked
‘benevolent’ totalitarianism is nigh

By: Richard G Brown

Richard G Brown — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:37:57 +0000

Good grief!

The ad is being served to me as I write this comment. Interestingly, the ad immediately below has “Right Wing” as its title and “Right Wing Political News & Opinion – The Week Magazine Covers All.” as its content.

This makes me suspect that, appallingly, they may simply be using “Right Wing” as their keywords.

I think this could tell us something about the mindset of our politicised police service and could actually be a story of importance. I am sure Iain Dale or Guido would waste no time in following it up further if they were to learn about it.

At the very least, I’d be very temped to fire off an FoI request to find out which keywords they’re buying. I wonder how many hard-left blogs advocating economic extremism or fanatically religious keywords are being targetted…