{"id":183141,"date":"2015-02-24T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/02\/24\/guck-foogle\/"},"modified":"2015-02-24T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T00:21:00","slug":"guck-foogle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/02\/24\/guck-foogle\/","title":{"rendered":"Guck Foogle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After requiring that blogs with adult content to label themselves as such for over a decade (forever in internet time) Google is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/feb\/24\/google-warns-sex-bloggers-to-clean-up-or-get-out\">using this labeling to kick the blogs out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/google\">Google<\/a> is banning public explicit photos and videos from its blogging service Blogger, and giving affected users just one month to comply. <\/p>\n<p>The new rules require any blog with \u201csexually explicit or graphic nude images or video\u201d to take them down by 23 March, or the blog will be made private by Google. A private blog can only be seen by the owner or admins of the blog, and people who the owner has shared the blog with. <\/p>\n<p>Google promises that the majority of users of the service, which Google acquired from Twitter co-founder Evan Williams\u2019 Pyra Labs in 2003, won\u2019t see any change from the new rules. But many users are concerned that the new rules represent a huge about-turn from Google\u2019s previously stated support of explicit material on its platform. The company\u2019s previous policy said: \u201cWe do allow adult content on Blogger, including images or videos that contain nudity or sexual activity \u2026 All blogs marked as \u2018adult\u2019 will be placed behind an \u2018adult content\u2019 warning interstitial.\u201d Its only exceptions were to ban illegal explicit content, explicit images shared without the subject\u2019s consent (commonly known as \u201crevenge porn\u201d) and making money on adult content. <\/p>\n<p>Zoe Margolis, author of the Girl with a One Track Mind books and sex blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/girlwithaonetrackmind.blogspot.co.uk\/\">joined Blogger in 2004<\/a>. She says that \u201ceither Google believes in freedom of expression, or it doesn\u2019t. Restricting blogs which contain explicit content to \u2018private only\u2019 effectively kills them off. This is like offering a library where all the books in it are invisible to the readers unless an author is standing there and personally hands each reader a copy of their book.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me note that my ox is not gored on this.<\/p>\n<p>While I may be f%$#ing profane, I tend to %$# out that sh%$ when I use those f%$#ing words.<\/p>\n<p>Google needs to get its f%$#ing head out of its f%$#ing ass.<\/p>\n<p>They should also admit that they have dropped the word, &#8220;Don&#8217;t,&#8221; from its favorite logo. <\/p>\n<p>Their new logo is, &#8220;Be evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After requiring that blogs with adult content to label themselves as such for over a decade (forever in internet time) Google is now using this labeling to kick the blogs out: Google is banning public explicit photos and videos from its blogging service Blogger, and giving affected users just one month to comply. 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