Sunday, July 27, 2025

Warning, censorship at work ...

 Pond correspondents might be startled to see a note on the pond's last post that says This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post.

If you do click, you get this:

Sensitive Content Warning
This post may contain sensitive content. In general, Google does not review nor do we endorse the content of this or any blog. For more information about our content policies, please visit the Blogger Community Guildelines.

The bot then offers the opportunity to continue or not. The pond always advises anyone approaching lizard Oz content to approach with caution.

Of course the guidelines give no actual guidance as to the specific matters that offended the bot. All the guidelines offer is a lot of generalised blather.

Not knowing what offended the bot means that the pond has no way of amending, or apologising, or doing anything much, not that the pond would follow the diktats of bot.

Perhaps it was the pond's recounting of South Park, though that came from The New Yorker, a notoriously woke publication deserving of censorship and restricted viewing.

Perhaps it was the pond's reference to a habitual offender, a notorious man deemed guilty by a jury of sexual assault:




If so, c'est la vie ... who knew Blogger would begin to act like CBS in the matter of Colbert?

5 comments:

  1. Sign into Google? Not on your Aunt Nelly,

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    1. Same.

      Perhaps the "wrong" foundation stories offended some centibillionaires...

      "@AbubakerAbedW
      @WSJ has given Yaser Abu-Shabab, Israel-backed criminal gang head, a voice to write his opinion. I will lose my mind. This is an unprecedented dark time of media in history. It’s the darkest"

      @BenjaminNorton
      "Propagandists who have spent years printing disinfo to justify Israel's genocide are desperately trying to pivot, as their beloved Israeli colonial regime starves Palestinians to death. Bari Weiss published this propaganda in May. Media publishers were tried at Nuremberg, btw"

      MSN leashed, now the fun factory...
      "‘Founders Films’ aims to remake Hollywood with patriotism, Palantir and Ayn Rand"

      Max Tani
      Updated Jul 21, 2025
      ...
      "And at least members of the old generation of Hollywood leadership seem more like the upstarts. David Ellison has telegraphed to Trump and the world that he is willing to take Paramount and its television network CBS in a different direction when and if his company Skydance completes its acquisition of the Hollywood studio. (His father, Larry Ellison, is one of Trump’s biggest backers.) As the merger awaits approval from the FCC, Paramount has settled a weak lawsuit filed against CBS News by Trump, and the company recently announced that it is ending The Late Show, hosted by Stephen Colbert, an outspoken Trump critic."
      ...
      https://www.semafor.com/article/07/20/2025/founders-films-aims-to-remake-hollywood-with-patriotism-palantir-and-ayn-rand?

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  2. DP, et all, as with slowly rising temperatures, my positive bent has kept my equilibrium in check.

    Yet loonpond being censored has punctured my peace. Fear of not seeing the pond - bad, fear of censorship - mild anxiety.

    May I urge you DP, to break up the post and post the pieces seperately so as to isolate the article and or language which triggered the warning.

    It is important imo to find offending content. Vauge content warnings viewed will log Jersey Mike as a traitor for example, and us as subversives, ruining my frictionless customs experience 🤨. My visa stamp will be a red 180 arrow.

    Then replace phrases with appropriate yet passing comms... eg;
    "They even used emoji to represent the phrase — a clever and more effective way to dodge the censors.
    "Here are some other ways people in China are tricking the censors to post on social media."

    Perhaps DP you may trigger a nation wide block!
    Say by linking el goog to diablo...
    Wikipedia "Blogger (service)"
    ...
    "Blocking
    "Blogger has been blocked for various periods of time in the following countries:
    ...
    "Blocking of *.blogspot.com domains by keyword-based Internet filtering systems is also encountered due to the domain containing the substring "gspot"; however, this can be alleviated by excluding the "blogspot.com" section of the URL from the keyword-based Internet filtering whilst the *. section of the URL is exposed to keyword-based Internet filtering."

    I want to know what the offending content is WITHOUT kissing el goog's ring of surveillance. Please.

    And swap to ghost or ??? Maybe just adult content. eg Ceaser phuking diablo.
    "1. Fix Blogger Content Settings
    ...
    "This removes the warning and lets visitors access your blog directly."
    2. Use The “Blogger Content Warning Skip” Userscript"
    ... "Before you can install the Blogger Content Warning Skip user script, you must first install Greasemonkey if you’re using Firefox, Tampermonkey for Chrome or Violentmonkey for Opera."
    3. Try The “Blogspot Content Warning Auto-Skip” Script
    what software dot com
    "bypass-blogger-content-warning-on-offensive-blogspot-sites"
    2nd result for me...
    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Blogger+forcing+content+warnings

    It's getting colder...
    GB, Chadwick, Joe, Kez, Annonies, Jersey Mike etc, what do you say?

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    1. What can one say, Anony, apart from: most human beings are born idiots.

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  3. I dunno, DP, I just can't get past that first screen where, if I click that I do want to continue, it sends me off to a Google sign in, which of course I won't do.

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