Google’s Blogger Service To Ban Nudity and Sex wrote:
Google’s Blogger blogging service previously allowed X-rated content on their sites so long as they were marked appropriately. But starting on March 23rd. 2015, Blogger will forcefully privatize all blogs with sexually explicit content or nude photo’s in a mass 30-day eviction notice to everyone who uses them services to post pornographic pictures. According to Google you have two options: 1. Make your blog private so that the only person who can see the content are blog owners, or 2. Remove all sexually explicit content from you blog before the specified date.
For a blogging site that dedicated itself to the premise of freedom of expression, it sure doesn’t want you to express your freedom. As of yet it is unclear why Google had the sudden change of heart in its puritanical efforts to cleanse the blogging network any wayward spooge. Although Blogger will still be allowing nudity for anything that benefits the public, such as education, art, scientific, or documentary in context.
It seems like a very sex-negative thing to do to forcefully exclude pornographic images on Blogger all of a sudden. It is not as if Blogger suddenly had a lot of **** bloggers, some of the sex blogs that will be forcefully privatized have been members of this site for over a decade. Some of these blogs probably use Blogger as a form of steady income, as Blogger is one of the only free blogging services that allows Adsense and other third party advertising sites. This has prompted Internet Archives owner Jason Scott to scramble to archive the blogs before they are gone for good.
It seems that the only possible option for established **** blogs on Blogger is to export their content and head on over to sites like WordPress or Tumblr. But for blogs that have had their content monetized by third party programs like Adsense are out of luck, as neither Tumblr nor WordPress allows third party advertising methods on their sites, or at least not an easy way to implement it in the way of Tumblr.
For a blogging site that dedicated itself to the premise of freedom of expression, it sure doesn’t want you to express your freedom. As of yet it is unclear why Google had the sudden change of heart in its puritanical efforts to cleanse the blogging network any wayward spooge. Although Blogger will still be allowing nudity for anything that benefits the public, such as education, art, scientific, or documentary in context.
It seems like a very sex-negative thing to do to forcefully exclude pornographic images on Blogger all of a sudden. It is not as if Blogger suddenly had a lot of **** bloggers, some of the sex blogs that will be forcefully privatized have been members of this site for over a decade. Some of these blogs probably use Blogger as a form of steady income, as Blogger is one of the only free blogging services that allows Adsense and other third party advertising sites. This has prompted Internet Archives owner Jason Scott to scramble to archive the blogs before they are gone for good.
It seems that the only possible option for established **** blogs on Blogger is to export their content and head on over to sites like WordPress or Tumblr. But for blogs that have had their content monetized by third party programs like Adsense are out of luck, as neither Tumblr nor WordPress allows third party advertising methods on their sites, or at least not an easy way to implement it in the way of Tumblr.