Censorship

Is the blurred phallic image on Brain Salad Surgery sufficiently blurred or does it need to be blurred further?... and for that matter, Love Beach probably should be blacked out.


Edited by rushfan4 - October 10 2013 at 14:37

Evolver wrote: So the blurring of the pictures only serves to drive people's desire to see the unaltered image. Proof that Adsense makes the heart grow fonder.   Thank you. I'm here all week.

Oh, that's good.

rushfan4 wrote: Is the blurred phallic image on Brain Salad Surgery sufficiently blurred or does it need to be blurred further?... and for that matter, Love Beach probably should be blacked out.

Dean wrote: Toaster Mantis wrote: You haven't considered the compromise RateYourMusic have where work-unsafe cover art is blocked for unregistered users but can be displayed as opt-in for users who are logged on? Or do the Google advertisting guidelines not allow that either? yes, Max is looking at that as a solution, (and every other solution  we can think of), however we have been given 72 hours to comply with the Google Ad violation email and such a fix will take longer to impliment. Consider this to be an interim fix.

The RYM option where you have to actively register to see censored artwork is pretty good IMO. Of course it doesn´t hinder a 13 old boy lying about his age to see the censored pics, but at least he´ll have to consider it...

...personally I absolutely loathe censorship and will do anything in my power to fight it, but I fully understand why Max is forced to act on the Google threat...the whole situation still makes me sick though I can´t even start to imagine what impact it will have on MMA, where there are tons of images that might be considered offensive by some...

Edited by UMUR - October 10 2013 at 15:44

UMUR wrote:   The RYM option where you have to actively register to see censored artwork is pretty good IMO. Of course it doesn´t hinder a 13 old boy lying about his age to see the censored pics, but at least he´ll have to consider it...

All are making a strong protest against some  AdSense through blurrrrrring their avatars.

Dean wrote: The site costs money to run. Visitors to the site currently consume 4TB of data a month - that is a huge bandwidth that has to be paid for. Add to that the cost of the maintenance and storage and leasing. Unless we charge for usage (yeah, right, like that's gonna work) or find a sponsor (not a good idea) then Google Ads are the only viable way of paying for it. So yes, threat of withdrawal of adverts is very serious and very valid. The violation warning notice Max received from Goolge AdSense is very real. If we lose Google Ads we lose the site - plain as. Personally, I think Google Ads are over reacting and Max is being over-cautious, we need to balance the need for complying with Google's Terms and Conditions and being sensible about it.

Outrageous!

Mellotron Storm wrote:   What I don't understand is that some of the ads on here are as bad as the album covers that are being blurred out. Yet there's no way those ads will be blurred out right ? Didn't think so.

^ Disgraceful!