A number of anti-Obama blogs hosted by google’s blogspot were shut down , with notices saying, “This blog has been locked due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations. Blogger has a little icon on the top of the screen that says “flag blog” and no one is really sure how many times someone has to flag it as spam before blogger automatically shuts the blog down until the owner of the blog sends an “unlock” request and then they are informed it could take days to fix the problem. Blogs like, Blue Lyon , which has been active for three years on blogger, and other pro-Hillary, Anti-Obama blogs that were part of the Just Say No Deal coalition and listed on their website. While we are still investigating, we believe this may have been caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the “Just Say No Deal” network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam. Many of the bloggers have moved their blogs to a new permanent home over on Wordpress which offers free blogs and no one has been able to provide any conclusive evidence that blogger, google or Obama supporters had anything to do with the anti-Obama blogs being locked, yet the suspicions remain as does the anger as one blogger, Carissa Snedeker who owns Blue Lyon says, “What frustrated me was that Blogger didn?t give us the benefit of the doubt. Whether the specific blogs that it happened to was a coincidence, deliberate malice or simply a kink in google blogspot’s spam filtering software, there was obviously a problem that blogger is trying to deal with and one would hope that they would be looking at ways to see to it that this does not happen again. read more

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