So I Got Dinged by Google.

It was over a post that I wrote about a man who, just after 9-11, was accused by the FBI of something he didn't do. He was threatened with extradordinary rendition and torture in a shithole Third World country if he didn't confess. So he did confess.

And then, it quickly came to light that the FBI's basis for detaining the guy, let alone charging him with a crime was bullshit. So they let him go. He sued and eventually the government settled.

I blogged about that in October of 2007. Overnight, The Gods of Google took down that post for "violating community standards". I read through the standards and found nothing prohibiting discussing a factual case of FBI misdeeds. I also have no idea why it took fifteen years for whatever was wrong in the post to get the Google Gods pissed off at me.

Because if saying bad things about the FBI is a violation, then, oh, about seventy percent of the blogs on Goggle are going to be gone. Including almost every one in the blogroll (which you don't see if you're using your phone).

Maybe this post will be taken down by Goggle around 2038 or so. So you'd best read it now.

ETA: This post, from April of 2014, was put behind an "adults only" warning for several hours. So they're up to a nine-year lag time. These posts from 2007 and 2013 are still behind warnings.

ETA 2: It's been reinstated. You can read it and wonder what irritated the dumb-ass bots at Google.