Some days ago, Google announced total ban on Adult and sexually explicit content on its free blogging platform, Blogger starting from March 23rd. However it seems the company has reversed this decision after a backlash from so many users but is still not in support of commercialisation of adult content.
Making the reverse in decision known, Jessica Pelegio, Social Product Support Manager at Google said:
We’ve had a ton of feedback, in particular about the introduction of a retroactive change (some people have had accounts for 10+ years), but also about the negative impact on individuals who post sexually explicit content to express their identities.
So rather than implement this change, we’ve decided to step up enforcement around our existing policy prohibiting commercial porn. As before, blog owners will have to mark any sexually explicit content as Adult’ but other than that there is not much difference for regular users.
Reversing this decision means Blogs which are marked as Adult content would be under a warning page and users can continue to churn out their different x-rated menu as long as it is personally owned. Yahoo owned Tumblr also tried banning X-rated content few years back, but like Google they also had to reverse their decision.
Source: Google Product Forums
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