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Google has announced their new Adult Content Policy for Blogger...
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.
They also explain how a blog can be exported, presumably for use should you wish to change hosts.
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/6170671?p=policy_update&hl=en&rd=1
Unfortunately, one man's art is another man's porn - so if you run a photography blog or just have images taken on the beach during your holidays you might want to back-up your data or recheck its contents.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday February 25 2015, @10:03PM
I suspect they did it to just automate the detection of certain things like child porn, revenge port, etc, without having to have even marginally sophisticated image filters. Probably getting too many take down demands to handle. Easier to just have their skin detectors running at ban everything mode.
Any thing that makes them need to spend human resources checking out complaints is ripe for the chopping block. Too many non-paying customers and too few employees.
With today's litigious society, even assigning an employee to undertake the task of checking out complaints can get you sued for workplace sexual harassment/misconduct.
And who knows what country will impose multi-billion dollar fines, or what extreme sect will start taking hostages, for violating their local version of religiously forbidden topics.
I wouldn't want to be in their shoes, trying to cow tau to every censorship demand from every corner of the world.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Thursday February 26 2015, @08:31PM
2015, the year bare human skin was made illegal. Truly, such a Brave New World. (Although ironically, in the novel, sex is used to appease the citizenry as entertainment.)
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