Monday, June 30, 2008

BARACK OBAMA

Who's Targeting Anti-Obama Blogs?

Google may need to revisit its policy in managing Blogspot, as it appears - but is not yet conclusively proven - that someone is trying to shut down anti-Obama blogs on the Blogspot platform by reporting them as spam blogs. In response to these types of complaints, Google automatically blocks blog writers from posting for several days.

Johnson and the other people interviewed for this article all agreed that Google was partly to blame for the outages. It was because of the search giant’s “guilty until proven innocent” approach, they said, that allowed the attackers to shut down the blogs so easily.

“My biggest objection is not necessarily that these people did this, but that Blogger had the policy that basically locks you out,” Snedeker said. “In other words you’re guilty until proven innocent, instead of the other way around, and that was what frustrated me.”

“I understand the need if you have some complaints from people that you need to investigate it,” Johnson said. “But you also have to make sure that the person filing the complaint is legitimate.”

At the very least, the system should inquire if the person making the complaint has adopted the middle name "Hussein". 

06/30 10:16 AMShare