Blogging platform Blogger, owned by Google, a year or so ago labeled this blog as mature-themed on the basis of eight articles. It restricts advertising via its AdSense service to Tech-media-tainment because those eight articles have what it deems “adult: sexual content.”
A few of those posts talk about pornography, but they don’t contain any porn or nudity. They include an article on how adult movies portray real-life politicians and other public figures. Another features a list of funny Christmas porn movie titles. Yet another has a list of funny porn parody movie titles. (I classify the last two as high-school boy humor.)
Other articles deemed “sexual content” include a post on how lying clickbait was trying to pass off a porn actress as Clinton White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Also, Google considers photos of women in bikinis as “sexual content.” One such article was on actresses who have portrayed Tarzan’s girlfriend Jane in movies. Another was on female athletes in the Legends Football League.
Most of those articles are many years old and aren’t representative of Tech-media-tainment as a whole.
This blog used to generate about $100 a year in ad revenue. But after Google instituted its prudish stance on what it considers “sexual content,” ad revenue dried up.
I suspect that the classification of this blog as having “sexual content” also led Google to remove it from search results.
Basically, Google has demonetized Tech-media-tainment. Critics say Google is doing the same thing with some content creators on its YouTube platform. If those content creators espouse controversial views, they can get their ads shut off.
I could get this blog reinstated in good standing with Google if I removed those eight articles. But I don’t want to do that on principle. I write this blog because I have ideas to share, not to generate ad revenue.
Still, I’d like to get my content seen. So, I might have to reconsider my position and self-censor this blog.
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