It has now been two weeks, Blogger (not "a few days"), since you unceremoniously locked, banned, removed, and cancelled the blog No Pasarán, without having the courtesy of giving the slightest explanation why. With the stroke of a button, one of your employees has seen fit to destroy a blog which has existed for more than two decades, accumulating between 14,000 and 15,000 posts (some a mere few sentences, others the length of a chapter in a book).
Does that make any sense?!
Google: If you didn't discover for 21 years — TWENTY-ONE YEARS — that a blog was violating your community guidelines (or, for that matter, any rules of common courtesy whatsoever), then it is likely that the problem was/is not the blog — which for over two decades has prided itself on being thoroughly researched, fact-filled, and dispassionate, linking adversaries as well as friends — but is caused by one of your young radical whippersnappers, someone (a drama queen?) who cannot stomach that there are opinions to the right of Karl Marx, opinions that must be by all means suppressed and crushed into the dust.
Google, pray tell us: What kind of thought crime in one (allegedly) offending post is so serious that it warrants a punishment not to be reverted to "Draft" status but to have between 14,000 and 15,000 posts, i.e., the entire 21-year run of the blog (with contents invisible to even the bloggers themselves) removed forever?
Believe it or not, that is not the worst of it:
Does Google even know that Blogger, or that its Blogger crew, has become increasingly brazen and has been increasingly acting like the Stasi? Is that hyperbole, you ask? Read on: We still receive warnings on the blog's admin page, as blogs always do, like the one below.
We have received a DMCA complaint for one or more of your blogs. 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). You may re-publish the posts with the offending content and/or link(s) removed. If you believe you have the rights to post this content, you can file a counter-claim with us. For more on our DMCA policy, please click here. Thank you for your prompt attention.This post was unpublished because it violates Blogger Community Guidelines. To republish, please update the content to adhere to guidelines.
However, contrary to what Google's message says — and as I have complained about several times in the past — the above is not what happens — not anymore. Not for the past two years, at least. Again, does Google even know what their (alleged) "fact-checkers" (sic) are doing?
What used to happen is that we indeed would check out the Gmail inbox to see which post had been reset to Draft status and (perhaps after trying to rectify what seemed to be the matter) click on a link saying File a Counter-Claim. By no means do the posts have to be recent: posts as old as ten years (!) have been reset to Draft status (which shows to what extent "tolerant" leftists, either working for Google or in the general public, go to suppress dissent) and were all — all of them — restored after challenging the complaint, in effect calling the complaints trivial and pointless.
As Facebook and Amazon and the Washington Post and others seem to become less partisan (not to
mention X/Twitter) with/after Trump's victory, Google or at least
Blogger seem to be going the opposite way…
A) Contrary to what they write ("Emails with the details were sent to you and all affected posts have
been reset to "Draft" status"), that is no longer the case. Although one gets the message above one never receives the attendant and promised emails in one's email inbox anymore, none whatsoever.
B) And in any case, the post in question (whichever it is, as one cannot tell without the attendant email) is no longer simply reset to Draft status; The whole thing is outright deleted. I forget whether the entire post vanishes from the admin page or if the post remains, albeit with just the title while the content is blank, with all the text removed. (There is thus no way to recover one's original text — unless one happens to have a previously opened window featuring the blog, as long as said window has not been refreshed.)
Imagine the anxiety produced here: isn't this like with the Stasi, Google, where you are (barely) told you are under investigation, but you are never told for what, or what your options are, or if they have already decided that you will be punished (indeed, already have been?) by losing something intimately personal?
Google/Blogger: It is (beyond) time to restore No Pasarán — without further ado.
@Google: It Is Time to Restore
— ¡No Pasarán! (@nopasa) June 11, 2025
a Blog — and its 14,000 Posts —
That You Have Harbored Without
Problems for Over Two Decades
1/2
It has now been two weeks, @Blogger (not "a few days"), since you unceremoniously locked, banned, removed, and cancelled the blog No Pasarán,… pic.twitter.com/Q9RT21KwCK
@Google: It Is Time to
— ¡No Pasarán! (@nopasa) June 11, 2025
Restore a #BLOG — and
its 14,000 Posts — That
You Have Harbored
Without Problems for
Over Two Decades
2/2 …/… Believe it or not, that is not the worst of it:
Does @Google even know that @Blogger, or that its Blogger crew, has been increasingly… pic.twitter.com/2RRIasXwOX
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