We tend to get pretty riled up about the way sex-related content gets ghettoized on the Internet. We get even more riled up when we hear about sex bloggers trying to do the right thing by marking their content as “adult,” and then getting punished for it.
Yes, it’s true: if you mark a Blogger blog as “adult,” visitors are presented with a warning notifying them that the blog as been flagged as “objectionable” — with nothing to indicate that it was flagged by the blog owner, specifically. And, to add insult to injury, blogs marked as adult are excluded from Google searches. Apparently Google (the owner of Blogger/Blogspot) sees any and all adult content as being on the same level as Viagra spam. Awesome.
Man, first Digg, now Google? Sex bloggers just can’t catch a break.
[Want to talk back to us about the ghettoization of sex online and the Pink Ghetto? Lux will be leading a core conversation on the topic at SXSW Interactive this March.]
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I find it analogous to the a typical male attitude towards women. Just cant join the mother and the whore in one whole, complete, real and mysterious being.
February 19th, 2008 at 4:50 pmHey, thanks for linking to my post.
I really cannot get over the total bullshit here. How hard is it to write a custom message?? (That’s a rhetorical question, of course; it’s not hard at all.) Excluding the blogs from search just adds insult to injury, and can also hit bloggers in the pocketbook if they’re trying to make a little extra cash from ads or something.
And to take a page from your video games post, don’t you just love how when people hear the phrase “adult content,” the first thing that comes to mind for most is, oooooh scary SEX. Not depictions of violence or anything like that… oh no, that’s not “adult” oriented at all.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:20 amAmber:
Totally. Thanks for writing about it and alerting me to this!
And yeah: violence, gambling, drug use — that’s not adult content. But sex? Holy crap, hide the children!
February 20th, 2008 at 7:39 amIf you were going to start a blog that might feature “adult content” are there any better options?
February 20th, 2008 at 1:03 pmXorn,
February 20th, 2008 at 4:28 pmInstall Wordpress on your own domain.
But first make sure your host is okay with adult content!
Dreamhost (which hosts Boinkology) doesn’t censor content — but not all hosts are so liberal minded.
February 20th, 2008 at 5:55 pmAfter reading the i09 post that digg freezes innovation among its users, maybe being excluded from them is a blessing. The guys behind digg have a weekly podcast that is … I think you have to see to believe. The Google hype has been how they are different, progressive… but flagging blogs as objectionable and excluding them from being searched, that is old school dumb. Is it me or do these people talk a good game about being open and keeping the internet free from restriction but in practice they are as closed minded and restrictive as any republican asshole.
February 20th, 2008 at 6:12 pmMichael,
It’s definitely not just you.
February 20th, 2008 at 9:25 pmJinx.
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