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"Bullshit" or not, they're a business and can do whatever they want. Don't do business with them if you don't want to. Fact is, "teen" is conveniently used to mean 18 or 19, when the majority of "teen" ages are legally underaged (13, 14, 15, 16, 17). Maybe not all teen sites as for pedophiles, but enough of them are. Just because the girl is 18 while she looks 14 and is officially legal doesn't mean you can expect a company to just go along with it. If I was deciding that for Google, I'd do the exact same. You have an international reputation to maintain. The risk of being associated with technically legal but obviously morally questionable content is clearly not worth it. Do you think the surfer gets off any differently knowing the girl is actually 18? From the surfer's perspective, it's the look that counts, and it's that very look that Google would rather distance themselves from, and rightfully so.
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