Is google an active enabler? Nope.

A criminal  investigation is underway into the mortgage swindlers that placed ads with Google. Further, consumer organizations are asking for penalties against Google because they allege that Google executives were "active enablers"  of these fraudulent scams against vulnerable homeowners. 


These organizations claim that Google "can not be allowed to benefit from these ill-gotten gains." Is there no end to the stretch some organizations will go to just to reach into Google's deep pockets? Apparently not. 


The swindlers advertise they can help forestall home foreclosures and ask the unsuspecting victims, who respond to these ads, to send their mortgage payment directly to the swindlers. And people do just that. And that is your first clue who is really responsible. 


Are Google executives active enablers of the swindlers? Perhaps the ad executives are responsible. Perhaps the people who manage the Internet are responsible. Perhaps the investors who breathed financial life into Google are responsible. Perhaps the organization that manages Internet protocols are responsible. I call this faulty logic liability creep. Liability creep, creeps and creeps until it finds a deep pocket, like a Google. And so on.

Google's only issue in this situation is they have deep pockets. Google runs millions of ads, that is its business. A claim that Google executives are active enablers of the swindlers' ads is ludicrous. Under this proposed interpretation of liability, if I purchase a computer from a Google ad, and it is found to be faulty, I could hold Google responsible. 


Follow this criminal investigation with me because it is a precedent setting investigation.