Vagina MuseumDec 10
It's time to tell you about another new, exciting type of digital censorship that we've discovered while existing as a museum of vaginas, vulvas and the gynaecological anatomy. This time: Google Ads.
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A quick ground rule. If your instinct is to tell us off for using a google product, stop typing and donate £10 instead. We're a small charity and we live in a society. We have to take all the help we can get, even if it's google. https://www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
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It's taken us a good five years to get a free charity Google Ads account set up. These accounts offer a substantial amount of free advertising. And with "vagina" in our name, it took quite a while to get set up, because, well, digital automated censorship.
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First of all, the good news. Possibly after we and other gynaecological health charities spent years kicking up a fuss, the words "vagina" and "vulva" and derivatives thereof are NOT blacklisted as keywords. That's a tiny bit of progress.
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We were honestly pretty shocked by this. We'd been prepared to make some noise about yet another platform banning the word "vagina", and we didn't have to.

But.

Then we discovered that there is some mischief going on...

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Here are some keywords that Google Ads deems "not appropriate for everyone".
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So there you have it. If you're wondering why so many people can't find the clitoris, blame Google.
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@vagina_museum Ironic, because Google are a bunch of C%^&*[^A
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