Blogger cracks down on sexually explicit content after update to its policies

GOOGLE stated Tuesday it would ban sexually explicit content material or “picture nudity” on its Blogger platform, asking users to dispose of the cloth with the aid of March 23.

In an replace to its regulations, Google stated it might nonetheless allow nudity “if the content offers a enormous public gain, for example in inventive, academic, documentary, or medical contexts.”

The replace stated users with sexually specific content may also remain at the platform as a “personal” blog which could handiest be regarded with the aid of the administrator and individuals with whom the hyperlink is shared.

customers will also be capable of export the blog to every other platform if they don’t need to remain on Google, the coverage said.

until now, Google’s policy had banned certain unlawful activities together with child pornography or paedophilia.

The replace through Google comes a 12 months after Twitter-owned Vine made a comparable trade to prohibit specific movies.

Google’s new coverage elicited court cases over Twitter, with a few calling it censorship.

Violet Blue, who pens the human sexuality weblog tinynibbles.com, tweeted, “Censoring this content is contrary to a carrier that bases itself on freedom of expression.”

another blogger, Carin McLeoud, stated, “google’s e-mail approximately grownup content material on blogger treats person content material as though it harms human beings and not anything comes from it.” Twitter consumer Matt Adlard wrote, “Has #Google long gone too a ways with its self styled #censorship on peoples Blogs?? Are we no longer adults to decide our personal destiny and what we watch??”

The pass marks a shift for the web venue, which has had a hands-off approach to privacy, largely permitting its 160 million customers to police their own boards within sure pointers such as no child pornography or junk mail.

The trade comes approximately six months after hackers obtained nude pix of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities and posted them to social media web sites together with Twitter and Reddit.

A posting on the site, signed by way of Reddit executives such as CEO Ellen Pao, said the shift is an attempt to “assist develop reddit for the subsequent 10 years and past.”

powerful March 10, any photograph, video or virtual image of someone who's nude or engaged in a sexual act is illegitimate if the issue hasn’t given permission for it for use.

absolutely everyone who wishes an picture of themselves eliminated from the site can electronic mail contact(at)reddit.com.

Reddit, owned by means of Conde Nast’s wired virtual, did not go back a request for comment.

Social media sites have various rules on nudity. fb prohibits snap shots containing nudity altogether.

Twitter doesn’t mediate criminal content but recommends that content material with nudity or violence be marked as touchy.