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Censorship. Officials Threaten To Seize Sexy Stuff.

by Prettyintelligentprincess @ Friday, 07. Mar, 2008 – 23:42:11

I received this from Blog.co.uk tonight and I am really upset.
I write about me. My life. My thoughts. My hopes, my dreams, my nightmares.
I don't know what to do.
Please can someone help me.
I have written and written my heart on every page since I tried to take my own life on September 21st 2007.
I am no angel.
I am a passionate and sensitive and caring woman and I feel so upset I may have offended someone.
If I have, I am so sorry.
I don't even know which post they are referring to.
And why? Why now, after all this time?
I have enough here to publish a book!
So I need to know which part I must remove.
I feel I am removing part of me and I wonder who it is who has considered me so terrible to remove me this way.
I warn and I explain about no children or weak-hearted.
This is what I received:

Dear prettyintelligentprincess@hotmail.co.uk,
We request that you either remove or set as private the sexually explicitmaterial that you publish on your blog, as it violated the Terms of Servicethat you agreed to on registration with BCUK, in particular the following section: "The User will not link to, offer or promote content which is unlawful,offending, ethically or morally improper, pornographic or racist." If you fail to remove or make private the sexually explicit material withinthree working days (ie by 1130 CET on Wednesday March 12th), we will be forcedto remove it ourselves.
Kind regards blog.co.uk Customer Support
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- sidejump
- Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 10:28:17
Hi Pip, you know my views. But another thought, as you have 27 friends on here, and lots of comments to post, racy or otherwise, perhaps when you ask blog UK for guidelines you can point this out. The notice does say you can set as private (ask them if that is friends only)
or set a bunch to private for the time being, whilst you sort this out.
- - Prettyintelligentprincess
  - Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:14:07
  Thanks SJ..it's trying to find the ones to set to private. It's ridiculous. I started writing in September last year and as you know, when I start writing...it's s bloody long post usually!
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- danr2210
- http://danr2210.blog.uk
- Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 11:00:03
damn the fascist state of Blog!

Time for a revolution.

And if they are going to sieze your sexy stuff, then I will be waiting for it to turn up on ebay

Don't worry about it...what are they going to do?
- - Prettyintelligentprincess
  - Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:15:30
  They said they would 'REMOVE' it! So I am worried and I don't want my stuff removing!
  
  Knowing me, even ebay would find me too saucy!
  Thank you though for support.
  - - danr2210
    - http://danr2210.blog.uk
    - Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 21:31:42
    actually PIP, I forgot to tell you that my work has blocked your blog!!! I can access everyone else's, but when I go into yours it is blocked for "sexual content".
    
    So I have to check out from home.
    
    D
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- jenray ^Pro
- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 13:07:32
I think private means to be seen only by you or maybe you can allow specific friends to see it...your sexy stuff is very explicit but not sure whether it is pornographic...what is the definition of pornography? If it's literature or images liable to incite sexual feelings in the reader or viewer maybe your descriptions could do that, but the readers do have a choice not to read your posts if offended...BCUK must have had several complaints for them to reach this decision...I don't think they would have taken this decision simply off their own backs...you could ask perhaps how many people have complained...Sorry about this, PIP, but it seems there's a limit to how much you can express about your personal feelings and emotions even here...big hugs....
- - Prettyintelligentprincess
  - Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 18:18:17
  I am still upset though as I know there is a lot of graphic writing elsewhere. I just wish they were specific about which post!
  pip x
  - - jenray ^Pro
    - http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
    - Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 18:25:33
    Maybe it's most of your sexually explicit stuff...you could just go through your last say thirty posts for the sexy stuff and click on 'private'. Maybe that will be sufficient to satisfy BCUK...You must know which ones are like that and which one aren't... Big hugs...
    - - Prettyintelligentprincess
      - Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:17:43
      I have changed the last one ...the one that I think triggered this all off to friends only!!! So...hope you don't mind being a friend for saucy material Jen!!! Should be used for medicinal purposes only of course!!
      Thank you for your helpful words though.
      Pip x
      - jenray ^Pro
        
        http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
        
        Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:30:52
        
        okay with me...if too much I can always say 'oh, good heavens', and depart hastily...HLOL....big hugs...
        
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        Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:37:02
        
        God you make me giggle!
        
        I wish others would just do the same...say Good Heavens and depart hastily..I mean!!!
        pip x
        
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        jenray ^Pro
        
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        Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:58:15
        
        Well put it this way, very little indeed shocks me today, except violence which I hope will never lose its shock value...but I'm adult and can choose what I want to read and look at so what you put on your blog was, as far as I was concerned, entirely your business...LOL...words don't actually turn me on, cartoons are more my turn on and Japanese wood cuts...HLOL...so big hugs, and hope your difficulties here in BCUK have been resolved now....XX
        
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 18:52:54
It does sound like people must have complained. As you say, if people don't like what they read, they can choose not to. I guess the "problem" with open posts is that anyone can read them regardless of age, so there could be people who are objecting to that. Hopefully BCUK can give you more information.
- - Prettyintelligentprincess
  - Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:22:00
  I have just added a strictly 18+ line to my intro to try and appease them a bit more.
  And if people let children access the web, being responsible parents they will have filters set. AND...ooo sorry just having a rant...but ..if people find me THAT objectionable, they should have a nanny filter on their own internet access!!! If they are unable to NOT resist reading me.
  
  Thank you for your comments...and rant not directed at you at all! Waiting for more info from them.
  Take care
  pip x
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- technomist
- Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:03:19
I don't know which material is a problem to them. I think they owe it to you to explain. It may also be worth your while having a look at blog.de, to see how things work there. There has been sexually explicit material posted there from time to time, and I don't recall it being an issue.
- - Prettyintelligentprincess
  - Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:24:07
  Thank you...I will take a look at blog.de...was that?
  I bet someone has just flagged me and said I was too rude!
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- ranfuchs ^Pro
- Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:06:26
All your sexy stuff was private. There is much more explicit sexy stuff public there. I understand why they should have guidelines for public material. I see no reason why they should have any restriction on private stuff.

I am with you here.
In general although I like the service I don't like the policies behind BCUK, it's all too opaque
- - Prettyintelligentprincess
  - Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:12:24
  Thank you. But the idea of me just being the only one here to read about some of me is rather...bizarre...I don't need to read me as I am me!
  I understand your double entendre re private...but I feel rather upset still..and angry too. I have really been very reasonable though whilst trying to contact them.
  - - ranfuchs ^Pro
    - Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:16:40
    Sorry, by 'private' I meant 'friends only'. I can't imagine that any of your friends complaint, and if someone has, they could have just removed themselves from your friend's list.
    
    And as far as being reasonable, I completely agree with you. You will get my full support, if it can help
    - - Prettyintelligentprincess
      - Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:27:04
      Thank you Ran. Kind words and I will try to get this sorted out as best I can...I feel one of your commanding posts may be in order!
      Will keep you updated and do take care. x
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- timsuzi ^Pro
- Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:17:52
Just thought I'd post to express my support and a bit of advice.
When I was threatened with an injunction on my blog by my ex - wifes solicitors on the grounds that might children might chance upon it and find out what an apppaling and disgusting pervert their father was I said that I would post anything controversial on the 'Friends' only section. Then there was no risk of anybody seeing it apart from people that knew already about me.
Intersting to know whether anybody has been sued for their blogs, how different is posting here compared to a conversation in a pub with your mates?
Good luck with this anyway, you write about your life and you are a sexually active woman so therefore it will be part of what you write, and as confuddled says if people don't enjoy reading that then their are plenty of other blogs where they can read and have their puritanical viewpoint reinforced.
- - Prettyintelligentprincess
  - Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 19:35:20
  Tim
  thank you so much for this support.
  I had no idea you were threatened in that way. I have said I will make an effort to just let my friends see anything explicit in future and have asked really nicely for more advice and specifics.
  Yes, I agree with the idea people can read elsewhere. It's like changing a channel on the television.
  Thanks again
  Pip x
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- birdsong ^Pro
- Saturday, 08. Mar, 2008 @ 21:02:50
If "The User will not link to, offer or promote content which is unlawful,offending, ethically or morally improper, pornographic or racist." then why is it OK for that to be set to 'private'??
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