Google has recently announced that they can now block specific blogs on Blogger/BlogSpot for individual countries. Twitter had made a similar announcement some time back that it can now block some tweets on per-country basis. This will allow Google to block content on specific countries which violates the local law while keeping it online to the rest of the world.
Recently Google started redirecting traffic to Blogger to country specific ccTLDs, however this change is now only visible in India, Australia and New Zealand, Google plans to roll this change globally across all countries.
Google Blocking Blogger blogs per-Country Basis
Why is this happening?
Read what Google says regarding why you are being redirected.
Migrating to localized domains will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law. By utilizing ccTLDs, content removals can be managed on a per country basis, which will limit their impact to the smallest number of readers. Content removed due to a specific country’s law will only be removed from the relevant ccTLD.
By blocking content on specific countries Google will make sure that they will comply will the local law while keeping the content available for the rest of the world.
Google has previously blocked content in China and other countries where the content does not comply with the local policies and law. Google and Facebook are hearing in Delhi court for filtering specific content which does not comply with the policies of India, hence this is a good move which will make their work easier in filtering and blocking specific content on blogs.
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Facebook may also take a similar step like Google and Twitter have taken to block content and comply with the law.
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