The company had initially announced a ban on “sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video”, with just a few exceptions for content which offered “a substantial public benefit, for example in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts”.
It planned to enforce the ban from 23 March, when any user with offending material still on their blog would be forced to turn it into a private site.
Now, the company has backed down. Jessica Pelegio, a social product support manager at Google, wrote: “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.”
“Blog owners should continue to mark any blogs containing sexually explicit content as ‘adult’ so that they can be placed behind an ‘adult content’ warning page,” she added.
Personally, I'd like to thank many of you who took the time to write me wondering what was going to happen with the blog.
Obviously, the religitards were getting to the powers that be at google and it wasn't until you and myself and fellow bloggers made OUR voices heard, that those very same powers that be, backed away from what would have most certainly hurt their company far more than a few upset puritanical dipshits.
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Delighted Google changed their mind - or had it changed - so quickly!
Blog on!
Whew, almost down to the wire!
I like to think that they finally got the report from the accounting dept.showing the amount of lost ad revenue.
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