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, documentary, 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
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. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~I don't have a problem with taking down the pictures of the girls to keep the blog up. What I have a problem with is Google's nebulous definition of "sexually explicit or graphic nude images" and them deciding what is and isn't "graphic" or "explicit" and then torpedoing ANY BLOG they do not like.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/timeline-googles-role-in-global-sex-censorship/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-bans-explicit-adult-content-from-blogger-blogs/
http://www.ibtimes.com/google-hopes-avoid-facebook-censorship-criticism-removing-nsfw-content-blogger-1826138
We have gone way past what was thought of big brother in Orwell's book. Thank you for standing up and shouting Fuck Google and internet censorship.
ReplyDeleteThis is America. The human body is seen as obscene. So sad.--Bill
ReplyDelete...and probably if you publish some splatter pictures of fully dressed bodies covered in blood there would be no problem.
ReplyDelete"What's the ugliest part of your body? Some say your nose, some say your toes, but I think it's your mind!" (FZ)
Yea Chino, we could put up tons of photos of dead, burnt, bodies all kinds of splatter and gore but God forbid anyone see a female nipple.
DeleteNice to read a Zappa statement in a site named after a Beefheart song title ! This "private" thing is unbeleavable ! Maybe you could put some titties between arty pictures while pretending it's an art blog ?
ReplyDeleteI could try that but that would leave the google censors to decide whether it qualified as arty or "graphic or explicit" then have them terminate us. I'm just going to have to be more crafty about the ladies.
DeleteI love the way you integrate nudes with your music. I would say your blog is very artistic for it.
ReplyDeleteI think it's wonderful that a corporate entity who cooperated with the Chinese government in keeping giant swaths of the Internet unavailable to the Chinese people is deciding morality for us.
ReplyDeleteGod bless the Business State of America!