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Google Reverts Change Banning Sexually Explicit Content on Blogger

It turns out that it Blogger will not be changing their porn policy after all, following an outcry from the Blogger community, a blog hosting service by Google.

Earlier this week Google announced that they would be implementing an important policy on blogger that would prohibit new accounts from posting porn but would also affect any current blogger users. Current blogger users have the choice to either delete all their porn content within the next month or else they would see it go private.

In a statement from Google, they said they have many long time blogger users, some had accounts for over 10 years, and the fact that it was being made retroactive was causing plenty of concern. And some of the blogs that would been affected were not hosting porn per se but was simply explicit content related to their identity online.

This essentially means that anyone with a sexually explicit blog on Blogger will not have to worry, unless they are also posting commercial porn. Google says they plan to step up enforcement around their “existing policy prohibiting commercial porn,” which seems to be at the heart of the issue and why they originally change the policy, so was a blanket policy on all sorts explicit images and videos.

Of course, any blog with such links post content will continue to be placed behind and interstitial, which warns of adult content before anyone can view those types of blogs on Blogger.

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Jennifer Slegg

Founder & Editor at The SEM Post
Jennifer Slegg is a longtime speaker and expert in search engine marketing, working in the industry for almost 20 years. When she isn't sitting at her desk writing and working, she can be found grabbing a latte at her local Starbucks or planning her next trip to Disneyland. She regularly speaks at Pubcon, SMX, State of Search, Brighton SEO and more, and has been presenting at conferences for over a decade.
Jennifer Slegg :Jennifer Slegg is a longtime speaker and expert in search engine marketing, working in the industry for almost 20 years. When she isn't sitting at her desk writing and working, she can be found grabbing a latte at her local Starbucks or planning her next trip to Disneyland. She regularly speaks at Pubcon, SMX, State of Search, Brighton SEO and more, and has been presenting at conferences for over a decade.