Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Well, that's sad.

Google's changed its policies, and won't allow pr0n.

Now, you may have noticed, this, despite its title, is not a pr0n blog. Still, this troubles me.
Note: We’ll still allow nudity if the content offers a substantial public benefit, for example in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts.
Oh, good. What, precisely, is an "artistic" context? See, it used to be (and will be until fairly late in March) the case that "adult content" blogs had a little warning screen, and you had to click "I am 18 and I wish to continue to this adult material page." That was good. It allowed consenting adults to see what they wanted to see, and afforded The Children more protection than, say, Tumblr does.

I can't claim to like this "artistic" qualifier. Come on, The Children know where to find the pr0n if they really want it, and adults should be able to decide what they do and do not want to see.

Will I migrate this blog to Wordpress or something? Probably not. But I'm starting to not like Google. I've been frustrated with Chrome in these last few months and will probably start using a different web browser, for all the symbolic good that does.

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