Porn To Remain In Blogger After Google Backtracks On Adult Content Crackdown

Search engine giant Google retracted its crackdown on adult content for Blogger, a popular service, after a few days that it announced it would ban porn and that it would delete all user accounts that contain sexually explicit content.

Instead, Google will only delete nude images for commercial purposes, reports Tech Times.

It warned users on Tuesday of its blogging service that they have a one-month grace period, ending on March 23, to remove sexually explicit content or those that show graphic nudity. Videos are covered by the policy. Users could also opt to set the viewing of the graphic images to private, but it must still be available to the site administrators.

Explaining the about face, Google Social Product Support Manager Jessica Pelegio said that they got a lot of feedback on introducing a retroactive change, especially some account holders had been with Blogger for over a decade. Instead of implementing the change, Google rather boosted implementation of enforcement of current policy that bans commercial porn.

Blog owners who would mark their sites as containing sexually explicit material would be classified as adult with an “adult content” warning. Those that would fall under that category are sex news blogs, art nude photos, reviews of sex toys, romance book writers, transgender activists and LGBT diaries.

Nudity will remain on the site, but the content must have substantial benefit to the public such as artistic, educational, documentary or scientific contexts. Lastly, adult content would only be allowed to remain on blogger if the image belongs to the user or has permit from the subject to post it.

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