That didn't last long! It's starting again. Haven't the mainstream media and the social media learned anything?! Two days after the election, the people over at Google's Blogger — well, at least one of their self-appointed "fact-checkers" (sic) — have (has) once again deleted a post of mine, one in direct relation to the presidential election.
More importantly, the post, Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election" (It's Unprofessional Journalism), is one that I consider one of the most paramount ones of the 13,830 posts of the past 20 years.
Except when I say "deleted", I really mean deleted! What used to happen is that, for good reasons or ill, they would put a problematic post in Revert to Draft mode. Although no longer visible to the public, it was there, for you the blogger, to read — and eventually to correct, per the express wishes of the Blogger Team. Since last November, at least, they simply delete posts outright.
Emails with the details were sent to you and all affected posts have been reset to "Draft" status (you may find them by selecting "Drafts" on the "Edit posts" page for each of the affected blogs)
Actually, every single time I have sent a counter-claim — which is every time — the post has been restored. But what about when, instead of reverting to draft, it simply vanishes, not only from the Blogger command post? They write that
You may re-publish the posts with the offending content and/or link(s) removed.
Yo! Google Team: How can you do remove the offensive content and/or links when the post, along with all its contents, has been entirely deleted and removed?!
Besides, you do not always get an email, but simply the following notice, without any further indication of which post they are talking about, much less how recent or how old it is.
This post was unpublished because it violates Blogger Community Guidelines. To republish, please update the content to adhere to guidelines.
Needless to say, there is all the insidiousness in destroying all the work that went into a text and a post
Fortunately, because of various screw-ups and SNAFUS — which I have detailed in my previous Note to Google Blogger (My Controversial Post on Blogger Was Not Reset to "Draft" Status; It Was Entirely Removed) — I have come into the habit of making copies of articles that would seem problematic to a "tolerant" leftist, one who is "open to debate and to discussion."
The post I wrote — which is one of the longest and which I consider one
of the most important of the 20 past years — had appeared before — on
various sites — and I therefore printed it several times over the past 15 months, always
remembering to update it with new material.
The shortest version appeared in August 2023 (Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election"; It Is Akin to Asking "When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife?").
I have been working on adding to and updating it ever since, and this led to a much longer version appearing on American Thinker just before the January 6 anniversary in 2024 (Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election").
And the longest version — Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election" (It's Unprofessional Journalism) — after 10 more months' of work, notably on religion in the last part of the article, appeared two days ago on election Tuesday. Within a day or two, it had been flagged — probably by a some self-appointed Instapundit monitor who clicked the Instapundit hyperlink — and it was gone.
FYI only: Below is the email I received from Blogger yesterday:
Hello,
As you may know, our Community Guidelines
(https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy) describe the boundaries for what we
allow-- and don't allow-- on Blogger. Your post titled "Let's Stop Using
the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election" (It's Unprofessional
Journalism)" was flagged to us for review. We have determined that it
violates our guidelines and deleted the post, previously at
http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2024/11/lets-stop-using-words -trump-tried-to.html.
Why was your blog post deleted?
Your content has violated our Misleading Content policy. Please visit
our Community Guidelines page linked in this email to learn more.
If you believe we made an error, you can request an appeal:
https://www.blogger.com/go/appeal-post?blogId=6501622&postId =1459029635813573031.
You may have the option to pursue your claims in court. If you have legal
questions or wish to examine legal options that may be available to you,
you may want to consult with your own legal counsel.
We encourage you to review the full content of your blog posts to make
sure they are in line with our standards as additional violations could
result in termination of your blog.
For more information, please review the following resources:Terms of Service: https://www.blogger.com/go/ter
ms
Blogger Community Guidelines: https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
This is what they do. This what they are. The 'rules' are endlessly mutable. It's beyond annoyance. It's beyond unfair.
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DGB