Blogger has implemented some changes which enable a reader to flag objectionable blogs. Some see this as a violation of the right to speak. Someone even suggested that Blogger delete Spam Blogs, but anything else that someone may find objectional, should be off limits. Could Blogger do something else that’s more compatible with freedom of speech where a blog is not spam, but just “objectionable” to some groups? I think so. I suggest they could do any of these (or ideally a combination):

I find it puzzling that those who are fretting about so-called violations of “freedom of speech” to include everything that is “objectionable” to “some groups”, such as blogs “which express views the majority don’t like, whether religious, political or sexual”, are the same people who are quite eager to restrict the speech of what they have defined as “Spam blogs”.

Neither Blogger, nor Google are required to guarantee the right of anyone to speak freely on Blogger’s or Google’s dime. The right to speak freely may be a civil right, but I know of no government that requires that another pay for your ability to speak. The old saying still applies - He who pays the piper gets to call the tunes.

I am a member of those “some groups” who commend Blogger if it is trying to keep the community one that is comfortable for the majority of patrons. I, for one, have been shocked at images that have popped up when I have clicked “next blog”. I do not want my family and blog visitors to be exposed to such perversions. Let them speak freely somewhere else, where I am not exposed to such degradations.