Blog Bidness: Community Guidelines

 If you came to the blog yesterday, there were some obstacles to reading the Tuesday TV Touchbase.

There was a notification that the post was in violation of Blogger's Community Guidelines.  

There was an option to read or not read the offending material and if you opted to say yes, then what you got was a standard issue edition of my weekly Tuesday TV Touchbase, this time sharing my thoughts on the 2025 Emmys, Only Murders In the Building and the surprise bonus episode of Game Changer.  

What about the post was in violation of Blogger's Community Guidelines? Well, your guess is as good as mine. 

The violation warning sends me to a read out about Blogger's Community Guidelines and but nothing specific as to what exactly about the post was worthy of such concern.

Here are some of the items in Blogger's Community Guidelines that a person could get dinged for.  

• Adult Content
• Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
• Dangerous and Illegal Activities
• Harassment, Bullying, and Threats
• Hate Speech
• Impersonation and Misrepresentation of Identit
• Misleading Conten
• Non-Consensual Explicit Imagery (NCEI)
• Violent Organizations and Movements
• Unauthorized Images of Minors
• Violence and Gore

I am reasonbly sure none of that applies to my humble recount of stuff I happened to watch on television.  

OK, I did say I was not impressed with Nate Bargatze as host of the Emmys. Does that count as "hate speech"?

Yes, the topic of murder, a "dangerous and illegal activity" comes up but hey, that comes with the territory when talking about Only Murders In the Building.  

And I referenced the title of the Game Changer episode ("Samalamadingdong!") and does that sound like "adult content"? 

Someone reported this content to be reviewed by Blogger to verify it violates Community Guidelines. If it does, what could happen then?  

• Put the blog or post behind a sensitive content warning interstitial
• Unpublish the post, making it only available to the blog author
• Delete the offending content, post or blog
• Disable the author's access to their Blogger account
• Disable the author's access to their Google account
• Report the user to law enforcement

Nate Bargatze has powerful friends.

But seriously folks...

It does occur to me that the report for violating Community Guidelines may have nothing to do with the actual Tuesday TV Touchbase post.

Perhaps I'm dealing with some harrassment in response to the previous day's post about Charlie Kirk?

Did I hurt the feelings of someone who objected to my post against murder but also against hate and fear mongering?

Am I being paranoid? Probably but the adage goes, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you're NOT being followed."  

Or I simply incurred the wrath of the Nate Bargatze fan club.