Google backpedals on its Blogger porn ban just 3 days later

Google backpedals on its Blogger porn ban just 3 days later

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Days in the wake of declaring that it would start taking action against sexually unequivocal substance on its Blogger stage, Google has turned around its choice. 

The progressions, which would have prohibited free to sexually unequivocal websites, were slated to become effective one month from now. However, the approach change produced generous kickback. Significant reactions brought up that a few clients had been posting non-business obscene substance for quite a long time; to numerous, the move appeared to be excessively clearing and arbitrary.
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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

A Google representative told Mashable recently the Blogger strategy was being upgraded "to fall in line" with other Google items, in the same way as YouTube and Google+. In fact, it wouldn't have erased explicit entertainment, yet rather protected it from open eyes. Bloggers would have been obliged to send individual welcomes for individuals to audit their substance.

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"The way that you haven't erased our substance is of horrid relief when you execute off our whole userbase!" one blogger challenging the change composed. "We can't in any way, shape or form welcome a huge number of individuals one by one." 

Google said that "grown-up substance" will in any case be put behind a cautioning, if suitable. 

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