Wow, I never thought I'd find this blog again. As you can see, my previous post is dated January 13, 2005. For some reasons, I completely forgot this blog. I knew I started a blog somewhere but I just couldn't find it. I didn't bookmark it and forgot the url. I only rediscovered it today.
Last January, in my blog The Setting Sun, I was shocked to learn that my posts had to be screened by the bloghost. The note said that there were questions on my content. I could not believe that they were going TO CENSOR my posts! I started that blog in April 2007 and they were going to censor it after almost two years!
The Setting SunI wrote the following and sent it to the bloghost for review:
CENSORING BLOG CONTENT
When I logged in to this blog, I was surprised to see the following:
Warning: We have a concern about some of the content on your blog. Please click here to contact us as soon as possible to resolve the issue and re-enable posting.
I wonder what could be objectionable in this blog.
I thought there is freedom of expression in the blogosphere. There are millions of blogs with adult content (meaning, pornography) and so many are full of hate materials, especially anti-Muslim.
This blog has no pornographic content. It also has no hate content although some Ilonggos sent hate comments. So this will not turn into a hate blog, I did not post some of the comments and merely answered them privately through emails but I posted some to show samples of these comments.
I hope the warning message is just a computer error. It is a shame if blog hosts will censor posts of blogowners.
I then got the response that it was all a mistake, a "system error". And so they removed the censor mechanism. But this still made (and makes) me nervous. It just means that bloghosts (or at least that one) has a censor mechanism which would block posts if they don't like the content. I do hope Blogger is not like that.
So far, everything is back-as-usual for that blog. But I decided to make a back-up blog for my more "timeless" posts there. I went to Blogger to create a new blog. To my surprise, the url http://datujamal. blogspot was already taken. I though that somebody got my name, or at least shares my name and beat me to blogspot. When I went to the site, lo and behold: it was my long-lost blog!
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