You’ll have noticed that earlier this year, Google saw fit to whack a compulsory “content warning” on my blog, forcing all viewers to click through a page informing them that “some readers of this blog have contacted Google because they believe this blog’s content is objectionable”. I’m not sure what annoyed me more: the fact that unlike the self-selected Adult Content Warning, this was externally controlled; the fact that in a single day, my hits dropped to 1/3 of what they had been, and haven’t recovered since; or the weasel wording in which Google saw fit to inconvenience my readers while disclaiming any prejudice or opinion on their part.
The disclaimer is, frankly, bullshit. Of course Google side with those who believe that adult content, or kinky content, is “objectionable”. That’s why Google Ad Words aren’t permitted on adult blogs; why Google Checkout doesn’t permit any use by adult service providers (my account was suspended after I used it to accept payment for a spanking audio story. The filename was totally innocuous, so either one of their employees sat down and listened to the mp3 to see if it was “safe” or not, or else they judged me on the basis of my blog contents).
The only reason I stayed with Blogger so long was lack of time to setup a new blog elsewhere. This new content warning pushed the move higher up my priority list. And I can now, not before time, happily announce that this blog has moved permanently to a self-hosted, independent home.
I haven’t quite arranged everything to my satisfaction yet, and will be adding more pages, widgets and links over the next little while, so bear with me if anything seems unfinished. But it’s good enough to get going. Please update your bookmarks, links and feed readers to point to my new url, www.pandorablake.com.
So bye bye Blogger, Google and your discrimination against adult content, and hello, independence.
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