I'm sure everyone who follows or creates captions on Blogger knows by now that Blogger changed their mind on prohibiting "explicit images". I received the following email yesterday:
Dear Blogger User,
This week, you received an email telling you about some changes we were making to the Blogger Content Policy. In that email, we announced a change to Blogger's porn policy stating that blogs that distributed sexually explicit images or graphic nudity would be made private.
We've received lots of feedback about making a policy change that impacts longstanding blogs and the negative impact on individuals who post sexually explicit content to express their identities.
We appreciate the feedback. Instead of making this change, we will be maintaining our existing policies (http://www.blogger.com/content.g).
What this means for your blog:
Thank you for your continued feedback,
- Commercial porn will continue to be prohibited.
- If you have pornographic or sexually explicit content on your blog, you must turn on the adult content setting (https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/86944?hl=en) so a warning will show.
- If you don't have sexually explicit content on your blog and you're following the rest of the Blogger Content Policy (http://www.blogger.com/content.g), you don't need to make any changes to your blog.
The Blogger Team
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So, I guess we can all breath a little easier for now, but I wouldn't entirely write off Blogger/Google trying it again in the future.
