Hello, all you TREASURE TRAIL lovers and readers of this blogsite.
Recently, the blogger website that hosts this blog, started censoring photos. There was no warning nor any communication that this action was being taken. It appears that any photo which includes a penis and/or any sexual activity are censored. These images are censored and appear with a black rectangle and a white bar in the middle. This is unfair censorship in my opinion. It seems to be also occurring on many other gay related blogsites generated by this vendor, blogger. I apologize...I am not going to go back and edit any archived daily postings to replace the censored photos. Let the censorship appear as a stain on this nefarious blogsite vendor.
As a result of this limitation and censorship, I am strongly considering not continuing with this blog. This blog generates no income or any other benefits for the creator/blogger. It is done simply to appreciate and share the male form and its beauty with other like-minded individuals.
We have opted to include a protective warning before you enter the blog about age restrictions and we include warnings actually within blog site as well. This initial warning is an option that is provided by the vendor. If they provide this warning option to their users, then why are they censoring the content contained within?
Our content is primarily photos of beautiful men and we typically do not use shots that include the penis. BUT we do have some specific recurring collections such as the treasure trail nectar byline which displays shots of men after they have ejaculated on their treasure trail. Recently I have begun including more photos which include the penis. This is because I do not wish to refrain from displaying samples of beautiful treasure trails. I suspect that this blogger site vendor would censor photos of a nude male figure which include the penis even if it was a photo without sexual overtone and without an erect penis. This is unfair censorship and is rather alarming in this so-called modern day and age.
I believe this action by the blogger blogsite to be unfair censorship. If you agree then I urge you to contact blogger and express your opinion, although you may do so at the risk of being censored yourself. Such are the nefarious ways of this vendor. They'll probably even remove this blog altogether as a result of this statement so if the treasure trail blog site suddenly disappears, which happens fairly frequently to gay related blog sites such as this, you'll know why it occurred.
This site is designed for anyone, male or female, who admires the treasure trail, be you gay, straight, bi, omni, metro or non sexual. I think it is very sad and pathetic that in this day and age that a technology vendor would censor nude photos of male figure or even would focus on what might be incorrectly judged as a gay-related blog site. I'm not surprised but I do disagree wholeheartedly.
My apologies for this announcement and for not focusing on that beautiful aspect of the male figure, the treasure trail. If I elect not to continue the blogsite I will make a further announcement. If this blogger vendor chooses to further censor the site and removes it altogether as a result of this particular posting, then they exhibit their nefarious ways for all the world to see. Shame on blogger...I hope that if this happens, I hope you will voice your opinion to this vendor.
Mark,
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be hit and miss some are censored and some are not.
PLEASE continue the BLOG even if you have to use another host.
It also seems that if you click to enlarge an image the the background is black and all the images appear along the bottom thumbnail size which you scroll along this doesn't reduce the size of the selected but it is a bit of putting as it is not what used to be there.
GOOD luck and I for one will continue to follow your BLOG!
I understand perfectly well how you feel, but please, try to continue blogging as many of us do appreciate your blog...perhaps go to another blog provider.
ReplyDeleteI have been waiting for my blog to be closed down any day...and still it is open after more than two years...what is amazing is that they could be objecting from many angles...like my political views and my anti-religious rants as well as pure porn.
saludos,
raulito
If it's any comfort, you would still have a fantastic blog even if all of the pictures showing cock were deleted. The great virtue of your collections is displaying attractive men in their natural state -- i.e., with hair intact -- above the waist. I don't come here for the purpose of looking at other guys' dicks, and would actually prefer it if you limited the photos to the, shall we say, less graphic sort.
ReplyDeleteEither way, I support your efforts and appreciate your work a great deal. Please keep the blog going!
Please keep the blog going. If it wasn't for this blog I wouldn't have gotten into treasure trails :)
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I love this blog and have found nothing else like it.I'd prefer that the blog stays up, but I also believe that most media censorship is capricious and unfounded.You should not be bullied into creating a blog you do not believe in.Thanks for all you've done so far
ReplyDeletethere seems to be a lot of discussion about this on blogger forums - it seems to be effecting people at random and not have anything to do with the content of the pictures
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ReplyDeleteAnonymous, thank you for your comments. Ia m the blogger for the treasure trail. There is a theme to the censorship, Any photos which include a penis or a sexual act are censored. All other photos are not censored. I agree with you because I do think this is somewhat random. Why is that some blog sites are not censored using a consistent criteria (which is absolutely ludacris by the way)? Perhaps the randomness is because it only happens to blogsites that are reported by someone? There is no rhyme or reason at all to any of this except that some blogsites are censored because they depict penises or homosexual activity.
ReplyDeletePlease dont give up. I love your blog and they seemed to have fixed the problem. Please keep your blog going.
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