Blogger Bloggers frozen by Google

Fox News reports that some bloggers on the Google  “Blogger” have been frozen out of traffic;

 Some bloggers opposed to Barack Obama say they suspect Obama’s supporters — with the assistance of Google — may have tried to censor them when the Internet giant froze their Web sites for five days last month.

Seven blogs run by Democrats who oppose Obama’s nomination for the presidency were incorrectly flagged as spam sites by Blogger, the hosting service Google has owned since 2003. Google says it was an automated response from a spam filter.

But the bloggers believe that Web surfers who support Obama took advantage of a loophole in Blogger’s system that allows readers to report spam blogs, the artificial Web sites that abound on the Internet and are used to promote other sites.

“It appears that [Blogger’s] policy can be manipulated by people determined to shut down the free exchange of ideas,” said Carissa Snedeker, whose blog, BlueLyon, was among those that were frozen.

Here’s some advice; leave Blogger.

A month or so ago, TSO and I were out trying match Matt Burden from Blackfive beer-for-beer, unsuccessfully, I might add. TSO asked Matt his secret for getting so much traffic. Burden told him “I left Blogger”.  News you can use.

Category: Bloggers, Politics