So, after I’d determined that it wasn’t the Google AdSense ads that were responsible for the grossly pornographic pop-ups that were appearing on this site, I decided to reactivate my account, which I’d cancelled 24 hours before. That triggered a review by the master computer Google uses to control anti-progressive political sites, and lo — I’ve been informed that I am no longer eligible to participate in AdSense.

I lose $400 a month in ad revenue, which is annoying, but not fatal, and my loss is readers’ gain, but the real issue here is Google’s very effective effort to demonetize and silence all who dare speak out against the State. Forget my little blog, and look instead to what’s going on with the big, conservative websites, like PJMedia, parent site for itself, TownHall, RedState, Hot Air, and several others. Here’s a report from one of PJ Media’s columnists

Google Is Completely Out of Control

The long and short of it is that any article that touches, even tangentially, on any of these pet projects of the corporate state gets the automatic demonetization hammer:

Transgenderism
Climate Change™
“Election integrity”
COVID-19 and the pharmaceutical industry broadly
Any esoteric Current Thing™ (a colloquialism for a popular narrative being foisted on the public via astroturfed, controlled media)

We would be lying if we claimed that this demonetization assault didn’t take its toll on PJ Media's fiscal health.

PJ Media, like all independent conservative/populist media outlets, is constantly demonetized by Google.

(Emphasis on “independent; we’re not competing on an even playing field with certain unnamed “conservative” outlets that are boosted in the algorithms via sweetheart Silicon Valley deals and then pretend they are besieged by “cancel culture,” nor are we talking about legacy media behemoths like Fox News that are not throttled in the same manner.)

A little definitional housekeeping: by “demonetized,” we mean that any article smeared by the fickle Google gods with this black mark of shame is no longer eligible to host Google ads, which means it cannot generate any ad revenue for the company.

Many readers might be generally aware of the demonetization warfare tactic designed to suppress dissident media but may not be aware of just how many PJ Media articles are demonetized on a regular basis, which has the intended effect of crippling revenue and, ultimately, putting us out of business forever.

So, just how many PJ Media articles has Google demonetized?

One? Two? A dozen?

Oh, you sweet summer child!

The answer is 109.

Google currently has attached “demonetized” flags to 109 PJ Media articles.

Here we have the complete list of demonetized PJ Media articles: