Well that was quick. We wrote earlier this week about Google banning pornography and sexually explicit material on Blogger. Well today the company posted on its product forums website that the decision has been reversed. Instead the company will step up enforcement against those that do not mark their blogs as adult content and those who may try to use the platform to sell porn.
I think they knew people were looking to leave the site, as even people who did not have a blog with anything pornography related did not like what they saw as a Draconian law.
Hello everyone,This week, we announced a change to Blogger’s porn policy. 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.Bloggers whose content is consistent with this and other policies do not need to make any changes to their blogs.Thank you for your continued feedback.The Blogger Team
Very strange decision, considering their draconian rules on AdSense.