Google has measures in place to ensure that legitimate blogs can’t get mistakenly taken offline as spam, but they’re apparently not enough to prevent certain Blogger sites from being caught in the crossfire. The recent plight of one blogger who had his blog unceremoniously removed after being reported for spam has brought this issue to light, though Google promises that further measures are about to be in place that will help mitigate it.
Blogger user John Hempton wrote an essay on January 2 about Astarra Strategic Fund, a fund management group that Hempton believes is fraudulent. In the post, he explained how Astarra fits into the Australian privatized social security system, noting that he sent a letter to authorities to voice his concerns that eventually got him into the newspapers. One day later, Hempton’s entire blog was no longer available on Blogger, with a note on his end from Google saying that the “spam prevention robots” had detected his blog as spam.
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