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Definitely. But the situation presents itself for self-promotion. I think the author is taking advantage of the situation and making the best of it from their perspective --and Google well, you can't please all of the people all of the time.

I'll bet it was flagged as anti-LGBT and is simply the work of an automated process going wrong.

My money's on this. The pictures in the article exemplifying the hateful VK content make the article itself look like a hate article. If I were a (overworked, underpaid) human reviewer who saw this after an algorithm flagged it, I'd probably have scrolled down to the pictures and tossed it into the "flagged" pile too.

That'd what I'd say - considering how pro-LGBT Google are, there's definitely more than the author is letting on here

Agreed. This goes totally against the corporate culture.