Blogger has instituted a quasi-censorship program.
When a person visiting a blog clicks the "Flag?" button in the Blogger Navbar, it means they believe the content of the blog may be potentially offensive or illegal. We track the number of times a blog has been flagged as objectionable and use this information to determine what action is needed. This feature allows the blogging community as a whole to identify content they deem objectionable.This disturbing development is totally separate from their policy regarding spam blogs. This is much more big brotherish.
Blogger excuses this quasi-censorship by referring to the "Wisdom of Crowds" concept. That's complete bullshit. They might have an argument if they gave readers the option to designate a blog as "unobjectionable." But even that would be problematic, because it's always more likely that a offended person would be motivated to click on a flag than someone who's not offended by content. You're going to see a situation where hypersensitive people or those with intolerant political viewpoints will have a kind of "hecklers veto" on blog content.
This is a bad idea, and totally goes against what i thought was Blogger's most important asset, the total freedom it gave to its users.
Posted by annika at September 10, 2005 07:46 PM | TrackBackWhereas here we go by the much more reliable "Wisdom of Pixy" method. 
I know I clicked on that on a blog or two, not because I thought it was objectionable, but because I thought it meant you marked it for later or something. It's not self explanatory if you didn't get the memo....
Posted by caltechgirl at September 11, 2005 02:54 AMDidn't anyone ever tell them not to mess with Mister In-between?
Posted by Pixy Misa at September 11, 2005 05:44 PM