This is probably the first time when the Blogger team has censored selected posts from a blog hosted on Blogger rather than banning or deleting the entire blog. Here's a copy of the letter [Blogger TOS Violation- content removed] from the Blogger team received by the CYFSWATCH blog
We'd like to inform you that we've received a complaint regarding your blog cyfswatch.blogspot.com.The anonymous anti-CYF blog invites people to post complaints about social workers in what it says is an effort to name and shame them.
Upon review, we've noted that your blog is not in compliance with Blogger Terms of Service (http://beta.blogger.com/terms.g). As a result, we've been forced to remove the infringing posts from your blog.
What's even more interesting is this second email from Google to the blogger stating reasons why the post was removed from the blog:
When we receive complaints that a post appears to violate the privacy of others by, for example, publishing non-public personal information like residential addresses, we remove the post.Also read: What can you do when people copy your content on Blogspot hosted blogs without permission.
Likewise, we may remove posts that appear to threaten actual harm to specific individuals.
Reader Comments
Interesting. Well its good thats BlogSpot Team is alive and kicking people who fail to adhere to their norms. :)
Cheers,
Dreamchaser
Written on 5/2/07 2:30 PM
Hope they are not on a spree of deleting blogs/ blogs posts since they would lead to chaos and bad-mouth of blogger...
Written on 6/2/07 8:50 AM
Several political activist sites have been deleted by blogspot based on fraudulent complaints of TOS violation.
No prior notification was given before the deletion, and no answers to inquiries as to nature of the TOS violation.
Worst, the harassers and stalkers who targeted the blogs are now the owners of the sites.
Google and BLOGGER are evil.
Written on 31/3/07 4:32 AM