Blogrush is Prudish and Repressive

So I’ve been banned by Blogrush for not meeting their quality guidelines. They sent me an email asking that I don’t take it personally, and consider resubmitting after November 21st. I believe that it has to do with them being repressive prudes that believe in censorship.

First off, Blogrush, your widget was f**king up my page load times, so you can guess where I think you can shove with your resubmission guidelines. But seriously, the only clause of the quality guidelines that I could conceivably be in violation of is:

– The blog’s content (or advertising) should not contain any of the following types of content: hate, anti-racial, terrorism, drug-related, hacking, phishing, fraud, pornographic, nudity, warez, gambling, copyright infringement, obscene or disgusting material of any kind, or anything considered illegal.

Yeah, “obscene or disgusting material of any kind,” that’s a real quantifiable criteria. Talk about subjective, whimsical bulls**t. My guess is that one of their moderators didn’t like my style, so now they’re censoring me like the crypto-fascist boot-licking pigs that run any number of third-world police states.

I wasn’t aware that Blogrush had a mandate to police the blogsphere. Talk about biting the hand that feeds them: the entire blog-movement-thingy is based on the idea of freedom of speech. Blogging is liberating because there’s not censorship, FCC, or editorial mandate.

In any case, most companies wait until their Google-big before they take on trying to police the internet, so in that sense, I don’t really blame Blogrush jumping the gun: they have a future that’s as shiny (and by “shiny” I mean profitable) as BlogShares.

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Hi, I'm CT Moore (@<a href="http://twitter.com/gypsybandito">gypsybandito</a>) and this is my personal blog, a place where my thoughts go to wander. I'm a recovering agency hack who now manages <a href="http://socialed.ca/seo/">SEO</a>, <a href="http://socialed.ca/social/">social media</a>, and <a href="http://socialed.ca/content-marketing/">content marketing</a> campaigns through my consultancy <a href="http://socialed.ca/">Socialed Inc</a>. Sometimes I speak at conferences, too, but you can check me out on <a href="http://ca.linkedin.com/in/ctmoore">LinkedIn</a> if you really wanna know <i>that</i> much more about me. And if you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment or drop me a line. I love it when strangers come a callin' ;-)