Google's Blogger To Delete All 'Adult' Blogs That Have Ads

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 28, 2013 @06:22AM from the internet-is-for-something dept.

DougDot sends this excerpt from ZDNet: "In three days, Google's Blogger will begin to delete scores of blogs that have existed since 1999 on Monday under its vague new anti-sex-ad policy purge. On Wednesday night at around 7pm PST, all Blogger blogs marked as 'adult' were sent an email from Google's Blogger team. The email told users with 'adult' blogs that after Sunday, June 30, 2013, all adult blogs will be deleted if they are found to be 'displaying advertisements to adult websites' — while the current Content Policy does not define what constitutes 'adult' content. To say that Twitter ignited with outrage would be an understatement. Blogger users are panicked and mad as hell at Google."

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Re:anti-sex ad policy? by cdrudge · 2013-06-28 07:27 · Score: 1, Troll

I'm guessing that the goal of this is in part to clamp down on human trafficking, illegal porn sites and related crimes.
Yeah. That's it. I'm sure once the policy is implemented that all those things will be a thing of the past on the internet.
Just like how busting the guy at the local flea market that sells hemp-related products has eliminated weed sales everywhere, and indicting the guy that sells flame stickers for cars has stopped people from exceeding the speed limit across the nation.