#Pornocalypse: Blogger/Blogspot Second Round
This is huge:
Violet Blue has all the details at ZDNet:
Every Blogger user behind an “adult content warning” page was told Monday by Google to delete sexually explicit content, or find their blog removed from every form of access except registered users.
Until today, Google’s Blogger platform previously allowed “images or videos that contain nudity or sexual activity,” and stated that “Censoring this content is contrary to a service that bases itself on freedom of expression.”
That changed on a whim Monday when Google ripped the rug out from under its previously-compliant Blogger users, who were told they’d be disappeared if Google decided their blogs contain “sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video.”
Rather than leave its already-restricted adult content alone, Google has told Blogger users it will be eliminating all adult blogs from public access on March 23, 2015, (and taking them out of all forms of search).
Blogger blogs with adult content which — at this time — are findable in search will be deep-sixed from the Internet once the changes take effect.
It’s worth noting that the vast majority of adult blogspot/blogger blogs are, at this time, moribund. Which means that nobody will be bring them into compliance. And when they go dark in a month, a huge proportion of the links in the sex blogosphere will break.
I have said it before. I will say it again. Anything worth doing on the internet is worth doing on your own domain that you control. If you use a free service to post adult material, that free service will, eventually, fuck you. (Not in the nice way.)
Similar Sex Blogging:
Shorter URL for sharing: http://www.erosblog.com/?p=13474
Well, there goes a material part of the links page I just spent last week building and annotating.
yay, freedoms… *sigh*
Every porn blog I have seen has been educational, documentary or artistic.
Hug, my guess is that Google’s porn-detection robot has rather different sentiments.
I’ve already seen one Blogspot blog I follow declare it’s shutting down, and another announce it’s going registered-users-only. The only surprise, for me, is that it has taken Google this long to get around to finishing off the job of forcing NSFW material to vanish from public view. I just hope that the Internet Archive will retain at least some of that material for posterity – if it does, and the archived versions can be traced, then perhaps Faustus’s links page will not have been a wasted effort? One can hope.
The Internet Archive question is a tricky one. I’m currently working on an explanatory post.
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