PIERS MORGAN: Free speech is dying and woke Google is helping to dig its grave

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2021-08-05 09:30:05

Google, the tech behemoth at the centre of the internet universe, had quietly put an advertising block on my column eight hours after it was posted on DailyMail.com. This meant they banned all adverts from appearing alongside it, so the Mail would receive zero revenue from the column appearing on Google. This is a big deal. Google said the column contained 'dangerous or derogatory content.' How could anything I wrote be considered 'dangerous?'

Last Wednesday, I wrote a column about the superstar gymnast Simon Biles. She'd just quit on her Team USA teammates in the Tokyo Olympics, and I didn't share the widely held view that this was an act of incredibly inspiring heroic courage

It struck me that given Ms Biles embroiders her own leotards with images of a GOAT to signify she is the 'Greatest of All Time' in her sport, then it's not massively impressive if she then gives up the moment that she makes a big mistake as she did in her first performance on The Vault

Indeed, she was praised more for quitting than she would have been had she dug deep, battled on and helped her team win Gold rather than the silver medal they ended up with in Biles' absence. And I found that ridiculous, so I said so