[cronjobber]

Antitrust regulators should look into this one.

EDIT: ...because the policy punishes advertisers use of other advertising providers.

[AznHisoka]

I developed malware that injects spammy ads into people's browsers.

Google banned my site from their index! Antitrust regulators need to look into this because it costed me my business and my employees! </sarcasm>

[greglindahl]

This is why US antitrust law focuses on harm to consumers, not companies. I don't see much harm to consumers if Google refuses to do business with websites that annoy consumers. Google already has a lot of rules that websites have to follow in order to be eligible for AdSense.

[korethr]

Okay, I'll bite. Why? Why do you think this merits such an investigation?

[cronjobber]

Because my reading of the article is that Google doesn't restrict the policy to Google ads.

> publishers have to also be responsible for any ad networks or affiliates they have on their site which could use these methods

That may or may not be turn out to be legally anti competitive, but it certainly merits an investigation.

My personal opinion is that it is a clear abuse of G's market dominant position.