Crisis Averted - Update

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As of 3/5/15 most everyone received this email from blogger....pretty much reversing coarse:

Dear Blogger User,

This week, you received an email telling you about some changes we were making to the Blogger Content Policy. In that email, we announced a change to Blogger's porn policy stating that blogs that distributed sexually explicit images or graphic nudity would be made private.

We've received lots of feedback about making a policy change that impacts longstanding blogs and the negative impact on individuals who post sexually explicit content to express their identities.

We appreciate the feedback. Instead of making this change, we will be maintaining our existing policies.

What this means for your blog:
Commercial porn will continue to be prohibited.
If you have pornographic or sexually explicit content on your blog, you must turn on the adult content setting so a warning will show.

If you don't have sexually explicit content on your blog and you're following the rest of the Blogger Content Policy , you don't need to make any changes to your blog.

Thank you for your continued feedback,

The Blogger Team


I'll be sure to thank them later for the week-long migraine they gave me.
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As some of you may well know, three days ago Google instituted a (more or less) zero-tolerance policy towards "sexually explicit or graphically nude images" on it's Blogger platform.  Essentially it meant that part-time Rule34 toon shippers such as myself were boned.

However (as of this morning), fearing a mass exodus to the likes of tumblr, Google quickly retracted part of  it's policy and had this so say: 


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.


In other words they are going to start cracking down on bloggers who consistently post commercial (mainstream) porn...and (more importantly) leave us little guys alone.  Apparently Google's Social Products Department forgot that their publicly traded company has to answer to a higher power....it's shareholders (myself included).  A potential mass-exodus (myself included) from one or more of it's platforms has a tendency to...well, make the company lose revenue....and department heads lose employment.
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Scumdog47's avatar
At least that's something.