I’m trying to figure out the expression on her face. Neither lust nor pleasure, not quite disgust — perhaps, bemusement?

That’s Audrianna Angel from Nasty Little Facials.

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Well, today’s the big day — the day that Google has announced it will start deleting adult Blogger (blogspot.com) blogs that have any “monetization of adult content” on them. Since there’s no telling how Google defines “adult” or “monetization” and no way to predict how aggressively they will pursue this campaign, only time will tell how broad and deep the casualties will be.

Hence this post. I’m hoping to use the comments here for people to aggregate information on our losses in the sex blogging community. If you’ve lost an adult blog to Google’s deletion campaign (your own or a favorite browsing destination) please post the name, defunct link, and a few words of description in the comments.

Thanks!

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Via this post at Spanking Blog comes word of a bizarre wintertime naked confrontation between Freedomite Doukhobor immigrants to Canada and their less-radical brethren, who chastised them with switches for their nude folly:

However, they didn’t stop marching until confronted and forcibly clothed by Mounties and non-Doukhobor townspeople.

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Here’s an article that uses the billing problems Pandora Blake ran into (“No talking about consent next to your porn!”) with her Dreams Of Spanking website to illustrate what’s becoming a broader problem for internet freedom generally:

Most media coverage of the Internet focuses on how much privacy we’ve lost. What we sometimes miss is that we’ve also lost public space. The web is almost entirely privatized: the servers, the network cables, the sites themselves are all privately owned. You might have a right to walk and talk on public streets, but your right to do so on the Internet is entirely dependent on those who own the hardware and software running the web. As Pandora Blake found out, even money has been thoroughly privatized on the Internet. The money that we use for transactions on the Web is minted by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Paypal.

Government censorship becomes redundant in such an entirely privatized environment. The concept of free speech is one that developed alongside the assumption of a public commons, open to all. But while the Internet appears to have expanded the public square – sometimes even to have made it universal – it has in fact shrunk. The hidden nature of speech on the Internet is that even after you publish your ideas, the paper and ink they’re on still belongs to someone else. Journalist A.J. Liebling famously said that “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” In the age of the Internet, who actually owns the printing presses?

The fact that getting paid over the internet is subject to the vague and shifting whims of the payment companies (and subject to their private rules) is a bigger issue than is generally recognized. Bacchus’s First Rule pretty much demands that you be paying for your web hosting (so you can be a customer instead of a product) but for most non-wealthy people, that means you’ve got to generate some revenue if you want your stuff to stay up over the long haul. Leasing a server in the private market doesn’t unduly limit freedom of expression because (so far) there are still many competing hosting providers happy to have your business, but it does take some subjects off the table (like, say, where to find good torrents). But there’s apparently not the same level of competition between online payment services; most won’t allow adult transactions at all and all the rest maintain a suite of broad and vague speech-chilling restrictions on them. Sadly, I don’t expect the situation to improve, not unless somebody finally figures out how to boot up a true digital bearer currency.

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I woke up this morning to find an amusing exchange about blowjobs in my Twitter feed. It all started with Rain DeGrey, a skilled professional who is on the record about having a relaxed relationship with vomit:

So, I am sure, would we all.

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Felix Salmon, the finance blogger at Reuters, has written a thoughtful piece in the wake of Google’s impending mass deletion of adult Blogger blogs:

But with today’s news that Google seems to be about to vaporize a significant number of the blogs on its Blogger platform, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the problem of link rot isn’t going away – if anything, it’s getting worse.

I’m a great believer that once something is placed on the internet for free, it should continue to stay there, for free, unless there’s an extremely good reason to delete it. Back when hosting websites was difficult and expensive, that was easier said than done. But now web hosting is effectively free, there’s really no excuse – and one might hope that, as a result, we’d see less link rot.

But that’s not what’s happening.

…

These mass deletions are huge; they make me feel almost sheepish about the anger with which I greeted, say, Greg Mankiw’s decision, back in 2007, not only to close his blog to comments, but at the same time to delete all the previous comments which had been made, with no warning. All the conversations which had taken place in his comments section, all the smart rebuttals which had been made – all of them just disappeared, overnight. Today, I’d barely blink at such a thing…

I share Mr. Salmon’s sheepishness. I haven’t forgotten the passion I brought to my 2006 rant about people who contribute to link rot by deleting blogs for no good reason; I’ve hated it since Susannah Breslin deleted her “The Reverse Cowgirl’s Blog” sometime between August 2 and October 5 of 2003. But in 2006, I never foresaw mass deletions of social media by corporate policy. I’d have scoffed if you had told me that in 2013 this would be a normal business practice for profitable corporations, rather than outrageous behavior condemned by all.

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My twitter feed just lit up with outrage about the email Google just sent to some or all of the adult bloggers on Blogger/BlogSpot blogs (of which there are a lot):

Important Update to Adult Content Policy on Blogger

You are receiving this message because you are the admin of a blog hosted on Blogger which is identified to have Adult content.

Please be advised that on June 30th 2013, we will be updating our Content Policy to strictly prohibit the monetization of Adult content on Blogger. After June 30th 2013, we will be enforcing this policy and will remove blogs which are adult in nature and are displaying advertisements to adult websites.

If your adult blog currently has advertisements which are adult in nature, you should remove them as soon as possible as to avoid any potential Terms of Service violation and/or content removals.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

Great thanks to Molly for sending me a copy; I myself do not have any Blogger-hosted sites because of Bacchus’s First Rule. However, Blogger/BlogSpot have a long history as the most reliable and long-lived host for free blogging, and (other than a heavy hand with an adult warning page that went up a few years ago) they’ve always been entirely adult-friendly. I didn’t see this coming, not in any specific way.

Obviously currently active bloggers can (if they move quickly — four day’s warning, seriously Google?) delete offending affiliate links and save their blogs. But the real impact here will be in to the long list of moribund adult blogs going back for most of a decade. There are many thousands of these, and being moribund, there’s no hope that they’ll be saved. Not only will they vanish from the web (I wonder if Google will use robots.txt to kill them in the WayBack Machine like Tumblr does?) but when they go, they’ll take with them an “installed base” of ancient blogroll links the departure of which will be strongly felt by all of the adult sites they ever linked to. It’s going to be a Page Rank bloodbath, for the folks who care about SEO and all that.

The pornocalypse comes for us all, I tell ya.

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