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Google's blogging platform Blogger will no longer allow its users to post anything with sexually explicit content starting next month. Starting March 24, all blogs posted on Blogger which has nudity, or sexually explicit images or videos will be converted to private blogs only which is accessible via an invitation from the owner.
No contents will be removed from the blogs with these changes, however, adult contents will be set to private where the owner and its invited friends are the only ones to see the post, PC World reported.
"We'll still allow nudity if the content offers a substantial public benefit, for example in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts," explained in the Google support page.
Moreover, Google will take action to posts containing sexually explicit image that breaches its policies. Google's current policy allows any adult content on Blogger, which includes images or videos that contain nudity or sexual activity, provided that the owner has marked an adult in the Blogger's settings.
In the company's updated support database, Google explained that Blogger will still allow sexually explicit contents as long as the images and videos will be offering substantial public benefit such as artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts, according to The Verge.
Should the images and videos were found not falling into any of the allowed category, the company will suggest to remove the offending media or mark it as private content. In the previous policy, such explicit contents were marked as "adult" and stating that "censoring this content is contrary to a service that bases itself on freedom of expression."
