I hate the Blogger Content Policy, specifically, the prohibitions against Hate Speech (personal views/facts), Crude Content (reality), Violence (a non-stop topic in the war-mongering media these days), and Illegal Activities (often, one groups hate against another, evidently justified if it is the majority view); and I hate the totalitarian punishments ...
* Delete the blog
* Disable the author's access to his/her Blogger account
* Disable the author's access to his/her Google account
* Report the user to law enforcement
Why? Because I hate thought control, expression control, and reality control, especially when there is no danger of harming anyone in particular directly in any physical or reputational capacity. Such things have no basis in corporate policy toward the public or the law, the fundamental and original intent of which serves to protect the life, liberty, and property of individuals equally, regardless of group affiliation and social status. I don't like my work destroyed by those exercising arbitrary rationals under dictatorial policies. Yes, writers use a service that Blogger provides, but Blogger uses a service that the writers provide as well. Contracts and respect for property are a 2-way street, not a 1-way street. Yes, the Terms of Service and Policies may have validity as a "take it or leave it" contract, but they are a corporation created by the state in terms of service to people, and I don't see any provisions for the writers to challenge any actions taken under the dictatorial policies, nor recover their work, nor any allowance for correction in the event of inadvertant error. They simply claim the right to destroy all of a writers work whenever they feel like it, at their whim, soley at their discretion, at any time. This is clearly unacceptable behavior.
Anyway, you can't destroy HATE without destroying LOVE. You can't destroy UP without destroying DOWN. You can't destroy MEN without destroying WOMEN. You can't destroy COLD without destroying HOT. You can't destroy a NORTH POLE without destroying a SOUTH POLE. That is just reality. So next time you see ANTI-HATE messages, remember, you are seeing ANTI-LOVE messages. THEY LIVE!
Morality is a matter for the people themselves, not states, and not corporate persons. Don't try to turn the hierarchy upside down. Fictions work at the pleasure of non-fictions and are without authority to narrow the rights of the people in public.
If I open up part of my property to allow sculptors to make what they want with some worthless clay that I provide for the purpose of adding beauty to my own property, and allow them to make replicas for their own property, is it just for me to destroy all of their work and efforts at my whim at any time based on my concepts of beauty, along with other property of theirs located on my property, with total and utter disregard for the sculptor and their work and property? Hardly.
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Hate Speech: We want you to use Blogger to express your opinions, even very controversial ones. But, don't cross the line by publishing hate speech. By this, we mean content that promotes hate or violence towards groups based on race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation/gender identity. For example, don't write a blog saying that members of Race X are criminals or advocating violence against followers of Religion Y.
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Our team reviews these flags for policy violations. If the blog does not violate our policies, we will not take any action against the blog or blog owner. If we find that a blog does violate our content policies, we take one or more of the following actions based on the severity of the violation:
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* Delete the blog
* Disable the author's access to his/her Blogger account
* Disable the author's access to his/her Google account
* Report the user to law enforcement
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There's nothing wrong with "drinking and driving" as long as you don't drink too much. It's not even illegal in many or most places. There's few things worth hating more than "premptive-strike" law that criminalizes people for what they might do. It puts police and the judiciary in the Crystal Ball business.
