Google will soon make disappear adult blogs on its Blogger platform that are not conform with its new anti-adult policies.
Every single one of the users behind and adult content writing blog, was announced on Monday by Google to delete the content that was sexually explicit otherwise their blog will be deleted from every form of access, exception making registered users.
So far, Google’s Blogger platform has allowed pictures that contained nudity or sexual behaviour and said that censoring that content was in contradiction with a service that was based on freedom of expression. But Monday, that concept changed, when Google “threatened” explicit content writers that their blogs will disappear if the adult images or videos will not be deleted.
Google warned about starting to take actions on March 23, 2015, if bloggers will not obey and do as they were asked.
There is a large variety of users on Blogger’s, and many of them are facing routinely sexual censorship. It is very important to understand that, many of those blogs have been labeled as adult content by the bloggers themselves whether it deserved it or not.
Presently, Blogger blogs, labeled with adult, include LGBT and sexuality diaries, erotic writings, transgender activists, editors and reviewers of romance books, reviewers of sex toys, nude art photographers, artists like comic illustrators and painters, writers of sex news, LGBT sex activism, sexual education, feminist porn, fetish fashion and way more.
The notice released by Google for Blogger users with adult content sounds something like this:
(…) In the coming weeks, we’ll no longer allow blogs that contain sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video. We’ll still allow nudity presented in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts, or presented where there are other substantial benefits to the public from not taking action on the content.”
Removing from search in every mean possible and allowing to access only by personal invitation or by registering is the closest thing Google could do to delete all the blogs together without being criticised for deleting a percentage of its user data base of Blogger.
We are not talking about illegal content, or that Christians don’t approve of Blogger, or malware danger, the actual Blogger community, or minor protection from porn, warning which already exists. Adult content has always been fighting for free speech and political dissent, thing which isn’t about to change very soon.
When Google forces its inappropriate Blogger blogs to lay low, it will affect more the internet than you can imagine. Many links that have been accessible on Blogger since its debut in 1999, will be broken all over the internet.
For example, with this new policy, a personal blog, dating from 2001, will cause the death of over 500 blogspot.com links. After the implementation of Google’s changes there will be impossible to find and discover adult content blogs on the Blogger platform.
The only way to manage finding an adult content blog, or any other blog that is against Google’s rules, will be by receiving an invitation straight from the Blogger user who is writing the blog. Even so, to be able to read a post, the person invited will be required to use a Google account to identify themselves or choose to view the post as a guest.
Adults blogs on Blogger, have already been restricted for those who don’t want to see the explicit content, whether is due to local laws, community of cultural principles, work restrictions or simply by personal choice.
Blogger’s Content Warning, which is already in use for these blogs, pops up and demands for agreement before proceeding. It warns you that the content you are about to view may have a content suitable for adults and in general Google doesn’t review or approve the content of these types of blogs.
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