Y-que, my favorite t-shirt store in glamorous Silverlake, LA, CA, claims to have been “gagged by Google.” This is the online shop that makes all the “FREE [MISBEHAVING CELEBRITY NAME HERE]” t-shirts, and the TOTAL RETARD shirts bearing Arnold Schwarzenneger’s smug mug. Free Y-Que!
From: Google:The following…items that must be removed from your site in order to continue advertising with Google AdWords:
Recall Bush – White T-shirt (with radio control on head)
Dumb and Dumber White T-shirt – Bush and Blair: The Movie
You’re Fired – George W. Bush White T-shirt
Dump Cheney White T-shirt – “Halliburton” tattooed across head
Miserable Failure T-shirt – George W. Bush
Kerry sucks (too) – T-shirt”In order to stay in business and continue advertising on Google we are moving all of our political merchandise to a separate website located at: FashionCriminal.com. If you find any offensive or negative merchandise on this website, please contact us immediately at: billw@ekay.com and we will transfer the items to the other website asap.
I’d welcome a response from Google on this. Link to Y-Que home, Link to a gallery of the “banned,” politically-oriented t-shirts. This isn’t the first (or the last) AdWords-related conflict. In other news, I saw a beat-up art car driving down Sunset Boulevard today with “SWITCH LIARS IN 2004 || VOTE KERRY” painted on the side.