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:60,000 tropers discover TV Tropes. TVT becomes a "must visit" site on the Web.

 

:[[The Google Incident]], aka [[The Situation]]. Google suddenly and without notice shuts off all advertising to [[TV Tropes]], in response to a determination that TVT was not compliant with their AdSense guidelines. TVT responds by implementing various low-impact methods such as requiring registration to see "non-compliant" pages (without ads).

 

:[[The Second Google Incident]]. Responding to another threat to TVT's advertising revenue due to Google being informed of "inappropriate" content, Fast Eddie responds with a previously-unseen alacrity. Hundreds of pages addressing topics unsuitable for persons under the age of ten are culled and a censorship regime is imposed on the entire wiki. The [[Censorship Bureau|P5]] is established and populated by a hand-picked team of bigots, prudes and [[Lickspittle]]s, whose advice Fast Eddie ignores when it conflicts with his own prejudices.

 

:Looney Toons posts an expression of disgust and disappointment about the censorship regime on his TVT user page, explaining why he cannot in good conscience remain a member of the wiki. Within 12 hours he is permanently banned from TVT and the page is blanked and locked. In his wake other tropers also abandon TVT.

 

:[[User:Labster|Vorticity]] runs a crawler to get all of the content of the TV Tropes wiki in source form.<ref>[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=976&pid=23932#pid23932 I Think It's Time I Walked Quietly Away from TVTropes (Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board thread)]</ref>

 

:TVT abruptly and without warning changes its licensing from the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.<ref>This is probably illegal as such a license change requires the approval of ''all'' contributors ahead of time, something the TVT staff did ''not'' get. At the very least it leaves TVT's copyright status in a legally dubious state.</ref>