I received the following email from Blogger/Google:
Hello,
As you may know, our Community Guidelines
(https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy) describe the boundaries for what we
allow-- and don't allow-- on Blogger. Your post titled "Poynette High
School Teacher Abuses Student about Mask" was flagged to us for review. We
have determined that it violates our guidelines and deleted the post,
previously at
http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2021/05/poynette-high-school-teacher-abuses.html.
Why was your blog post deleted?
Your content has violated our Malware and Viruses policy. Please visit
our Community Guidelines page linked in this email to learn more.
We encourage you to review the full content of your blog posts to make
sure they are in line with our standards as additional violations could
result in termination of your blog.
For more information, please review the following resources:
Terms of Service: https://www.blogger.com/go/terms
Blogger Community Guidelines: https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
I've posted on this blog for 16 years and I've never had a post removed.
Nothing on the deleted post violated Blogger's "Malware and Viruses policy."
Malware and Similar Malicious Content: Do not transmit malware or any content that harms or interferes with the operation of the networks, servers, end user devices, or other infrastructure. This includes the direct hosting, embedding, or transmission of malware, viruses, destructive code, or other harmful or unwanted software or similar content. This also includes content that transmits viruses, causes pop-ups, attempts to install software without the user’s consent, or otherwise impacts users with malicious code. See our Safe Browsing Policies for more information.
This is censorship, pure and simple.
What's odd is that my post was published at 7:03 PM. The email from Blogger was sent at 7:03 PM. Am I really supposed to believe that the "Blogger Team" reviewed it within the same minute it posted? It had to be an automatic response. What triggered it?
What's odd is that the video I embedded remains on Twitter and has received nearly 900,000 views. Obviously, it poses no threat in terms of malware or viruses.
Here's the video as I saw it originally, from Vicki McKenna:
I don't know why my post was flagged for review by Blogger/Google. I don't know why my post was deleted. It wasn't a matter of malware.
Not cool.
