Illegal Drugs Being Sold Online By Google

[CJB1234]

There is a major international platform owned by Google allowing drug dealers to advertise and sell illegal drugs in industrial strength quantities. Google the platform owner is probably the biggest in the world. Complaints have been made to it. It has ignored those. The issues have been raised with Citizens Advice, and also Trading Standards. Nothing has been done. Our MP (John McDonnell) has raised the issues in Parliament. Again nothing has been achieved. The listing of illegal drugs even killer synthetics from China have swamped the platform. It is not even part of the so-called 'dark web.' The listings are not even restricted to over 18s. They are available for all and everyone including children to freely access. Bona-fide users of this platform are racking their brains to try and find ways to take down these dealers and remove their posts. Hence the appeal to Mumsnet. What else can we do? Are there websites that we contact to highlight this illegal trade? Thanks.

Hi There CJB1234,

Thanks so much for posting - this sounds like an issue for our Petitions board so if you are aware of a petition of campaign to stop this please feel free to post it there.

Best

One link which is mild is here:

groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/uk.railway

I hasten to add that I am not here to promote this stuff. Do a search for [alt.airports.uk.edinburgh] to see how bad the issues really are. Then mltiply them by thousands of groups - all run by Google.

There is no petition I know of campaiging against this.

I have alerted my MP John McDnnell (Lab.) and he has tried to take this up with Google. But they are stonewalling him.

I have tried Citizen's Advice- no response. I have tried Trading Standards - who tell me to report it to the police - but failed to say how or whom.

I have trie the Met. - not our probem.

Etc., etc.

As said these vile 'R' posts are easily accessible to under 18s. There are no warnings on the listings.

Indeed these posts are breaking Googles own Terms of Service / Terms and Conditions - which must be illegal.

Basically Googe and the authorities do not care.

Sorry about the typos.

Sooooo..where are these drugs adverts?.. asking for a friends. Obvs

Oh £150 for some ket?? That’s just spam on a spammy site. Not many people wanting ketamine or diazepam would buy it from random (Expensive) random spam posts

The listings are carried by thousands of Google Groups. The millions of listings per day are against Google's T&C and TOS. They are also illegal. They are of adult content and yet children can freely access them. I only gave 2 examples.

Spam entries on the forum. It's actually easier to select all and unclick the legitimate ones than it is to click on the suspect ones.

Which forum? What app.?

Note: the drug dealers are also using Gmail addresses - so Google could easily block or take down those.

Update: after reporting this to my MP John McDonnell Google has blocked access to thousands of Google Groups. There still some Groups carrying posts from drug dealers. Boa-fide users report that the spam has diminished from the Groups. However it appears that most of the millions of posts originated from false GoogleMail / Gmail accounts. So Google was (and still is) allowing drug dealers and fake currency dealers to advertise on their platforms against their own terms of service.

Sorry for the typos.