Blogger Is Going Porn Free

[W!nston]

I read this notice from Blogger that was posted on another forum. Apparently Blogger is cleaning up it's act and going straight (it was always anti-Gay porn anyway). It seemed worth re-posting here.

Starting March 23, 2015, you won't be able to publicly share images and video that are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity on Blogger.

Note: We’ll still allow nudity if the content offers a substantial public benefit, for example in artistic, educational, doentary, or scientific contexts.
Changes you’ll see to your existing blogs

If your existing blog doesn’t have any sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video on it, you won’t notice any changes.

If your existing blog does have sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video, your blog will be made private after March 23, 2015. No content will be deleted, but private content can only be seen by the owner or admins of the blog and the people who the owner has shared the blog with.

Settings you can update for existing blogs

If your blog was created before March 23, 2015, and contains content that violates our new policy, you have a few options for changing your blog before the new policy starts:

Remove sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video from your blog
Mark your blog as private

If you’d rather take your blog down altogether, you can export your blog as a .xml file or archive your blog's text and images using Google Takeout.

Effect on new blogs

For any blogs created after March 23, 2015, we may remove the blog or take other action if it includes content that is sexually explicit or shows graphic nudity as explained in our content policy.

 

[yoyo888]

If you read closely and make the group PRIVATE then things might be OK.

I sent this to someone else and they pointed this out to me.

What do others think?

 

[brmstn69]

The problem there is that by making it private, your limited to only 100 viewers...

 

[trencherman]

Google seems to have flip-flopped on this decision this morning.

 

[W!nston]

An Update:

Google has changed its mind about forcing sexually explicit blogs on its Blogger platform to become private.

Earlier this week, the firm warned bloggers that blogs containing sexually explicit images and videos would be made private on 23 March.

After "a ton of feedback" the firm has decided to continue with its current policy instead, it says.

Explicit blogs must continue to identify themselves as "adult".

This means a warning page is shown before readers are transferred to the site.

Google also reserves the right to add an "adult" tag to Blogger blogs if it feels the description is appropriate.

The "acceptable use" policy link currently redirects users to a posted message which reads:

"We've had a ton of feedback, in particular about the introduction of a retroactive change (some people have had accounts for 10+ years), but also about the negative impact on individuals who post sexually explicit content to express their identities.

"So rather than implement this change, we've decided to step up enforcement around our existing policy prohibiting commercial porn."

As long as bloggers have correctly identified their adult blogs they need take no further action, the message adds.

Google had originally proposed forcing existing explicit blogs to go private from next month, and said it would potentially take down blogs created after its 23 March deadline.

Re-posted from another forum. Credit to original poster

 

[portugal10]

Phew :thumbs up: