GOOGLE, DIALECTIC, BLOGGER
Did Google get religion on February 23, 2015, and lose it on February 27, 2015? Was there a palace coup with reactionary moralists pitted against progressive post-modernists? Whatever, the post-modernists won. They’re all likely in the same political camp, but cultural and personal distinctions appear in most organizations. Google apparatchiks might object to pornography and having their company associated with it. However, as good liberals, they cannot bring themselves to deny sexual deviants the right to express their identities. As a liberal entity, Google has a moral obligation to give marginal people, including sexual deviants, a platform for self-expression.
We may never know the whole story behind Google’s near ban of sexually explicit blogs. There may have been compelling, corporate reasons for cleaning up Blogger’s act. But, writers should heed the warning that their freedom of expression at Google is a political reflex, and not a sign of support for their content.
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