Blogger Reverses Plan To Ban Sexually Explicit Content

This is interesting:  Google (Blogger) has changed their mind about implementing a new policy to ban sexually explicit content on Blogger.  I wrote about this in my blog New Adult Content Policy On Blogger Starts March 23, 2015 just a little over a week ago. Due to concerns raised by bloggers, Google has now changed their minds and has released the following statement:

 

An Update on the Blogger Porn Content Policy

This week, we announced a change to Blogger’s porn policy stating that blogs that distributed sexually explicit images or graphic nudity would be made private.

We’ve received lots of feedback about making a policy change that impacts longstanding blogs, and about the negative impact this could have on individuals who post sexually explicit content to express their identities.

We appreciate the feedback. Instead of making this change, we will be maintaining our existing policies.

What this means for blog owners

• Commercial porn will continue to be prohibited.
• If you have pornographic or sexually explicit content on your blog, you must turn on the adult content setting so a warning will show. If a blog with adult content is brought to Google’s attention and the content warning is not active, we will turn on the warning interstitial for you. If this happens repeatedly, the blog may be removed.
• If you don't have sexually explicit content on your blog and you're following the rest of the Blogger Content Policy, you don't need to make any changes to your blog.

This doesn’t affect me at all and I don’t know of any RV bloggers who might me impacted by this decision either.

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