Earlier this week, Google’s Blogger service warned people that on the 23rd of March it would cull adult content from its users’ web pages.
But now Google has changed its mind after it said, it had received feedback that had convinced it to backtrack.
Google had said it would mark blogs that contained sexually explicit material as private.
Instead, it will now ask people to mark their web sites as “adult”, a flag which will mean a warning page pops up before redirecting people to the particular site.
A Blogger rep posted a message which said: “We’ve had a ton of feedback, in particular about the introduction of a retroactive change (some people have had accounts for 10+ years), but also about the negative impact on individuals who post sexually explicit content to express their identities. So rather than implement this change, we’ve decided to step up enforcement around our existing policy prohibiting commercial porn.”
No other changes need be made than for people to mark their sexually explicit pages as “adult”
