From the article :
“Is Google now a massive multi-billion dollar prude? It could well be, with the tech giant announcing that it is banning publicly viewable sexually explicit material and graphic nudity on its blogging service Blogger….
Google made no statement at all as to why it is making this significant policy change. Porn has been a part of Blogger since before it was acquired by Google in 2003. They did crack down on people monetizing adult content on Blogger back in 2013, but at the time that seemed more of Google acting to stop people using its servers to make money from porn…
Whatever the reason there will be one company cheering the decision, and that’s Yahoo Inc. Their Tumblr blogging platform, that’s quite happy with adult content, is just about to receive a fairly significant membership boost. ”
Read more:
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/02/24
Having been subjected to censorship myself for displaying tasteful nudes on other platforms, I’ve only ever had my own private servers for my blogs, and I always recommend others do the same.
Thankfully, tumblr, where I have a massive following, remains one of the last bastions of free expression.
Amanda x
