Google deletes entire blogs
p2pnet view P2P | Advertising:- From online advertising giant Gargle to music blog “I Rock Cleveland (now deprecated)”, as per the Daily Swarm >>>
From: support@blogger.com [support@blogger.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:49 PM
To: irockcleveland@gmail.com
Cc: blogger-dmca-notification@google.com
Subject: Blogger Blog takedown notification
We’d like to inform you that we’ve received another complaint regarding your blog (http://irockcleveland.blogspot.com/). Upon review of your account, we’ve noted that your blog has repeatedly violated Blogger’s Terms of Service (http://www.blogger.com/terms.g). Given that we’ve provided you with several warnings of these violations and advised you of our policy towards repeat infringers, we’ve been forced to remove your blog.
Thank you for your understanding.
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
Don’t you just love the way these guys put a mealy-mouthed ‘Thank you for your understanding’ at the end of nasties?
“Blogger and Google have finally struck down upon music blogs”, says We All Want Someone To Shout For, continuing >>>
So far they deleted my friend Chris’s blog It’s A Rap, along with PopTartsSuckToasted, and Livingears (newly started at livingears.com), and irockcleveland . When google gets complaints from the big labels and legal companies, they always take action. It started with deleting posts that got complaints, and that is why I moved to wordpress in the winter of 2008. I had a feeling that soon it wouldn’t just be posts, but it would gradually move on to the entire blogs themselves.
Without warning, they just deleted all of these bloggers hard work. These guys have put hours of their lives into their site. This is complete bullshit. How the hell can google get away with just coming in and deleteing someone’s website? Ok they posted a track that made someone upset. Email them, and ask them to take it down. That would be the end of it. Was it really neccesary to delete their site? God damn!!!!
This is really upsetting to me, so I can only imagine how those guys feels. They are going to have to rebuild, and start from scratch now. For all you other blogspot bloggers out there, you better get moved over to wordpress, or at least back up your database right now!
Daily Swarm points to I Rock Cleveland’s support ticket with Google as it attempts to deal with the company just as though it’s reasonable and fair, to wit >>>
Getting Gargoyle to tell you what you’ve supposedly done wrong?
Good luck with that, I Rock.
But wait! Maybe the media attention your case is pulling will force Big G to answer !
Then again, if it acknowledges your efforts to find out what’s wrong, it’ll have to do the same for all the other hundreds of thousands of complaints it’s been ignoring for years.
It’s a bit of a dilemma for Google. 
Stay tuned.
..… and identi.ca
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Daily Swarm – Google Resumes Music Blog Breakdowns…, February 10, 2010
We All Want Someone To Shout For – Blogger/Google Fucking Over Music Bloggers, February 9, 2010
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February 11th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
this has happened to lots of blogs that are not music also. It has been going on for over a year I have noticed. Nice to get some official word on it (media) There were lots of sites that were good and due to “complaints” poof their gone in thin air. This means that lots of blogs lots everything if they had lots of followers/readers/etc.
February 11th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
‘Do no evil’. If only they kept to their own phrase.
February 11th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
If you are going to blog on a controversial topic, especially one big business won’t like, you need to set it up on your own web site. How long do you think p2pnet would last on google’s blog host before it was taken down?