Thursday, March 30, 2023

Google censorship


In the last few months, Google have occasionally been censoring my blogs in various strange ways.  Google own blogger.com and blogspot, which I use for my blogging.

They do so in two ways: By putting a warning in front of a post  or by deleting the post altogether.  And the odd thing so far is that the posts they attack are old ones, from many years back, when the post concerned no longer matters much.

Sometimes I can see what they are objecting to and sometimes I cannot.  The latest "warned" post is an example of the latter.  It seems amusing but perfectly harmless to me. They must have some very strange person assigned to my blogs. I reproduce below the whole email about it that I received from Google.  


   As you may know, our community guidelines
(https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy) describe the boundaries for what we allow – and don't allow – on Blogger. Your post titled 'Just for laughs' was flagged to us for review. This post was put behind a warning for readers because it contains sensitive content; the post is visible at

http://awesternheart.blogspot.com/2007/04/just-for-laughs.html.

Your blog readers must acknowledge the warning before being able to read the post/blog.

     Why was your blog post put behind a warning for readers?

     Your content has been evaluated according to our adult content policy. Please follow the community guidelines link in this email to learn more.

     We apply warning messages to posts that contain sensitive content. If you are interested in having the status reviewed, please update the content to adhere to Blogger's community guidelines. Once the content is updated, you may republish it at

https://www.blogger.com/go/appeal-post?blogId=9487055&postId=117542488088937637.

This will trigger a review of the post. For more information, please review the following resources:

     Terms of Service: https://www.blogger.com/go/terms

     Blogger community guidelines: https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy

     Yours sincerely,

     The Blogger Team


1 comment:

Bird of Paradise said...

Big Brother wants to monitor the Internet(Not invented by Al Gore)and block out all Conservative Web pages