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Google's Blogger To Delete All 'Adult' Blogs That Have Ads
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."
They're not getting the revenue would be my guess...
This is about Google eliminating non-Google adult ads on Blogger sites. A site has to have both adult content and adult ads to have a problem. Presumably the adult ads are not coming from Google.
Wordpress doesn't allow third-party advertising on their hosted blogs at all. Blogger probably does only for historical reasons. Google may be planning to transition all Blogger sites to Google ads only. Their pitch to new Blogger users suggests that new sites should only have Google ads.
If this bothers you, buy commercial hosting. It's really cheap to host a blog. Less than $10 per month.
I used to have an adult blog about elderly care - you know, old people don't like being called. It's "senior", "adult" or some other euphemism to help them not to feel that they aren't old. It' s good thing I don't have it now.
Then I once walked into an adult bookstore. I was exited! I wanted a book on Social Security, Long Term care insurance, retirement homes, and things like that. You know, adult topics.
What did I see!
Naked people having S-E-X! I asked the clerk, "Young man, were is the section on Social Security?"
And he took me over to this section where there were old people - 70+ years of age - having S-E-X! He mumbled something about Rule 34 or Section 34 or something....
I called my lawyer asking him if I were breaking the "34 law". He said, "Stop drinking!" and hung up on me!
But what does Google have against old people?! I'm gonna contact the AARP and organize a protest.
I'll get every adult and senior I know to protest Google about eliminating blogs about senior issues!
I have an old but popular personal website that's been running since 96 and using Google ads since the very beginning (2003? Can't remember). Two weeks ago I received a sternly written email that because there was ONE 'adult' picture on the entire site (700 pages), I had 3 days to remove it or adsense would stop. I thought it was some scam but it was the real deal. And yes, it was an artistic rendition of a breast as a mountain with minifig climbers on it. WTF, Google, you turning into baptist hypocrites or what ?!?
Non-Linux Penguins ?
So Google is basically saying: If you want to make money from the blog we are hosting for free, you have to cut us in on the revenue? I can see how this is a gross violation of people's civil liberties and why they are up in arms over it.
I read the internet for the articles.
the new rule is not that "vague" at all
Define adult. Define occasional "adult". Any rule about adult content tends to be vague since that's the nature of the subject.
I'd like to see the definition too... TFA says it's not defined: "while the current Content Policy does not define what constitutes "adult" content." Is Victoria's Secret an "adult" site because they sell lingerie and other merchandise that's oriented towards adults? How about a ship-in-a-bottle websites because that's an interest generally held by adults? How about Good Vibrations because they sell sex toys and videos? How about a nudist oriented site because it shows people in the nude? How about a "Hot girls in bikinis!" site because it shows hot girls in bikinis? How about a school swim team site because it shows girls in bikinis?
I'd really like to see how Google draws the line between adult and non-adult.
It seems like these days, I find myself making a comment about every two weeks saying that people should not trust Google not to take away services that they depend on. "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further." This is actually getting rather tedious at this point, and yet people still get up in arms about something they should have expected. How many times does this have to happen before everyone recognizes Google for what it is—a search engine and advertising firm that uses the promise of free services as a means to get more eyes on their ads?
The bottom line is this: If you want to provide something to the public, you really only have two viable options—set up a server yourself or set up an account with a hosting provider and back it up regularly to your own machine so that if they decide they don't want you there, you can migrate rapidly and nearly transparently to a different hosting provider. The entire notion of relying on a free web service is a fundamentally flawed concept. You cannot truly trust anything that can be taken away on a whim. You get what you pay for, and you do not get what you do not pay for, at least in the long term.
If you do not own the software that is used to provide access to your data, you do not really own the data in any meaningful sense.
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Which is why I have been saying for years America needs to grow the fuck up. America, the country where you can't show a tit unless it has a knife buried in it and where we nearly impeached a POTUS for getting a BJ, it more than time for us to grow the fuck up and stop pretending that Leave It To Beaver was an accurate depiction of the 1950s.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Alright that is it, i'm throwing a flag, bullshit on the field. Dude how many strippers have you even met? Because not only have I dated one but I had to go to more strip clubs than you had hot dinners because the lead singer's GF was a featured performer at multiple clubs and I always got roped into doing the driving because she knew that I have honor and don't cheat on my GFs so i could be sitting backstage waiting for her to get off stage without trying to pick up the girls.
Let me tell ya something bud, those girls that work in American strip clubs? NOT stupid and they sure as fuck weren't slaves, in fact a lot of them were going to college for this or that degree and were able to pay for their education IN CASH without being buried alive in student loans like so many are. Since they all knew I wasn't the type to try to get into their panties I quickly became friends with most of them and I don't think I ever even heard a hard luck story more than this or that girl had a BF that was an asshole. Nobody was holding a gun to their heads, they could have just as easily got a job at the mall, they chose to do striping (or as they called it "exotic dancing" which I always replied "yeah and I'm not the fixit guy, I'm a "technical systems engineer and integrator" which always got a laugh) and frankly most of them were making more in a night than i do in a month.
So while i'm sure it happens some places, hell everything has happened at least once somewhere at sometime,painting strippers with that broad brush really does a disservice to a lot of really smart women that choose that profession. hell I had a stripper doing mine and my dad's books and if she wouldn't have had to move to take care of her sick dad she'd still be doing them, that woman was crazy good at navigating tax codes.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Ex taxi driver from Australia - happy hookers were the norm here 25yrs ago, AFAICT they still are. I must have had at least a couple of hundred strippers/hookers in my cab during the 3yrs I was driving and I concur "I don't think I ever even heard a hard luck story more than this or that girl had a BF that was an asshole.". Probably helps that brothels, strip clubs, and private escorts are all legal businesses over here, they pay their rates and taxes just like everyone else, they must be licensed and are subjected to regular health checks. From a purely logical POV the fact they may be asked to do something they find unpleasant is no different to asking a plumber to clean out a septic tank. While on the subject of pleasure most taxi drivers would rather transport a hooker, stripper, athlete, cat in a cage, in preference to a social snob in a suit. In my experience young drunken women in groups of 3 or more are amongst the worst behaved passengers and seeing-eye dogs are amongst the best.
Making sexual entertainment a crime simply gives real criminals the chains to enslave sex workers. Accepting the fact that sexual entertainment is a universal human behavior and regulating it ensures the public health problem is controlled, that society benefits in the form of taxes, and (most importantly) it ensures workers can demand the legal protections afforded to other workers in their society without fear of being prosecuted themselves. Organized criminals and corrupt cops long ago lost the keys to a sex workers jail cell in Melbourne and that's a GoodThing(TM). You'd think the same reasoning would have enough force to pull their heads out of their arses and do the same for *recreational drugs, but alas they are too busy banning water pipes and playing legislative "wack-a-mole" with "legal highs".
*Hard drugs: such as heroine and crack may "enslave" some sex workers but from what I've seen junkies are uncommon in Melbourne's regulated sex industry. Although there are some well known spots where they do try and (illegally) pimp themselves on the street without the requisite license, these are mainly frequented by a tiny minority of people who actually enjoy a $50 blow job in a public toilet, like beggars they are considered a public nuisance but in reality most are simply drug/alcohol fucked or handicapped by a mental illness/deficiency.
A basic freedom is missing from western society, consenting adults should be the masters of their own bodies to the point where the effect on others goes beyond a purely emotional offense to the mind of the observer (eg: non-custodial punishment to enforce mass vaccinations, jail for using your body to murder/rape/etc).
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.