It Really Wasn't About Blow Jobs

 Apparently I require a trigger warning.

Word came down from Blogger Central early yesterday afternoon.

This post was put behind a warning for readers because it contains sensitive content.

You can still read it.  Anyone can still read it.  But first

Your blog readers must acknowledge the warning before being able to read 
the post/blog.

Here's what that looks like:

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.

I UNDERSTAND AND I WISH TO CONTINUE I do not wish to continue 

I started this Blawg in 2009.  And though it's always been hosted on Blogger, in all these years I'd never so much as glanced at Blogger's  "Community Guidelines."  But since I'd apparently violated them, I figured they were worth checking out.  So I looked and found the complete list of stuff that's verboten - or at least requires a warning: 

Adult Content, Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation, Dangerous and Illegal Activities, Harassment, Bullying, and Threats, Hate Speech, Impersonation and Misrepresentation  of Identity, Malware and Similar Malicious Content, Misleading Content, Non-Consensual Explicit Imagery (NCEI), Personal and ConfidentialInformation, Phishing, Regulated Goods and Services, Spam, Violent Organizations andMovements, Unauthorized Images of Minors, Violence and Gore, Copyrigh

Hmmm. . . . Moi?   I went back and looked at the post. (Of course, I had first to affirm that I knew it was risky but that I was willing to take a chance.). I'd put it up in November, 2009.  So for almost 13 years it had been blissfully ignored.  But now, 

Your post . . . was flagged to us for review.

Wowsers!

Enough, I won't keep you in suspense any longer.  The post was captioned (still is, I should add), "Too Many Blow Jobs Spoil the Case."  It was about a Pennsylvania court that tossed out a case against a brothel owner and prostitute because the cops kept paying an informant (a disgruntled customer of that brothel who went to the cops to complain) to have sex there after they already had enough evidence to raid the place. (Yep, they paid the prostitute for providing the disgruntled guy with sexual services and paid the (previously) disgruntled buy for accepting the services of the prostitute.). Oh, and they had the whole thing taped and cops and disgruntled guy sat around the police station listening to the tapes and jerking off giggling.

Which of those guidelines did I violate?  I included no photos or diagrams.  No detailed descriptions of sexual acts Mr. Disgruntled enjoyed endured.  There were illegal activities, of course, but I'm pretty sure my references to what happened aren't what Blogger had in mind.

Blogger tells me I can revise the post and submit it for further review to see if it's no longer a threat to the republic.  What Blogger doesn't tell me is how someone stumbled across the post and was sufficiently horrified to demand that Blogger do something.  Or who I'd so offended.

Still, I can't help but wonder how long it will be, since a post with "Blow Jobs" in the title caught the censorious eye, until they catch the one called, "In Which I Get to Write the Word "Cunt" Even Though the Court Doesn't and for Which I Probably Won't Get Censured in Colorado But You Never Know."

Did I say all this was unnecessary?  Back in 2014, in another post, I provided my own trigger warning.  I repeat it here to suggest that Blogger might want to add it to their demands before letting people read my stuff:

Before you start reading this blog, know that it says all sorts of offensive shit.  I curse.  I talk about rape and murder and mayhem.  I talk about pornography.  There are pictures of people, real people, who live (sometimes lived) in the real world and did fucking rotten things like killing babies and raping relatives and strangers.  I wallow in the gutter.  

I don't much care about your sensibilities.  I wrote a whole post once about a lawyer who got punished for calling a judge a cunt.  The court didn't use the word.  i did.  Repeatedly.  Don't like it? Go away, motherfuckers.

 

 

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