IF you have an overly sexual blog, it might be time to change your platform. Source: News Limited
GOOGLE said Tuesday it would ban sexually explicit content or “graphic nudity” on its Blogger platform, asking users to remove the material by March 23.
In an update to its policies, Google said it would still allow nudity “if the content offers a substantial public benefit, for example in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts.”
The update said users with sexually explicit content may remain on the platform as a “private” blog that can only be viewed by the administrator and persons with whom the link is shared.
Users will also be able to export the blog to another platform if they don’t want to remain on Google, the policy said.
Until now, Google’s policy had banned certain illegal activities including child pornography or paedophilia.
The update by Google comes a year after Twitter-owned Vine made a similar change to ban explicit video clips.
Google’s new policy elicited complaints over Twitter, with some calling it censorship.
Violet Blue, who pens the human sexuality blog tinynibbles.com, tweeted, “Censoring this content is contrary to a service that bases itself on freedom of expression.”
Another blogger, Carin McLeoud, said, “google’s email about adult content on blogger treats adult content as though it harms people and nothing comes from it.” Twitter user Matt Adlard wrote, “Has #Google gone too far with its self styled #censorship on peoples Blogs?? Are we not adults to decide our own fate and what we watch??”
You would want to hope getting your exploits removed is easier than Sex Tape. Source: Supplied
The move marks a shift for the online venue, which has had a hands-off approach to privacy, largely allowing its 160 million users to police their own forums within certain guidelines such as no child pornography or spam.
The change comes about six months after hackers obtained nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities and posted them to social media sites including Twitter and Reddit.
A posting on the site, signed by Reddit executives including CEO Ellen Pao, said the shift is an effort to “help grow reddit for the next 10 years and beyond.”
Effective March 10, any photograph, video or digital image of a person who is nude or engaged in a sexual act is prohibited if the subject hasn’t given permission for it to be used.
Anyone who wants an image of themselves removed from the site can email contact(at)reddit.com.
Reddit, owned by Conde Nast’s Wired Digital, did not return a request for comment.
Social media sites have varying policies on nudity. Facebook prohibits images containing nudity altogether.
Twitter doesn’t mediate legal content but recommends that content with nudity or violence be marked as sensitive.
It also lets users flag questionable content for review.
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