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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/27/google-backtracks-on-porn-ban-in-blogger
Google backtracks on porn ban in Blogger

• Google has backtracked on plans to ban sexually explicit images from its blogging platform Blogger, in the face of widespread opposition from users

The company had initially announced a ban on “sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video”, with just a few exceptions for content which offered “a substantial public benefit, for example in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts”.

• Jessica Pelegio, a social product support manager at Google, wrote: “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.
• “Blog owners should continue to mark any blogs containing sexually explicit content as ‘adult’ so that they can be placed behind an ‘adult content’ warning page,”
• Since at least 2012 The company has warned users to “not use Blogger as a way to make money on adult content”, and says it does not allow “illegal sexual content, including image, video or textual content that depicts or encourages rape, incest, bestiality, or necrophilia.”

That ban, which has been in place since November 2014, was matched by social news site Reddit this week. The company’s chief executive, Ellen Pao, said that “effective 10 March, Reddit will prohibit any photograph, video or digital image of a person who is nude or engaged in a sexual act if the subject has not given permission for it to be used”.

I think that the internet is changing everyday and evolving therefore the rules and regulations businesses have for their consumers will forever be changing. More companies are becoming more lenient on pornography laws whereas some are become more harsh