A blanket ban for Wordpress blogs?

20 Apr, 2008

A blanket ban for Wordpress blogs?

Posted by: Zang Caesar In: Wordpress

Wordpress blogs are banned in Brazil

Just because a Wordpress blogger who published a post featuring a YouTube video embed of a couple having sex, all Wordpress blogs are or will soon be banned in Brazil? This sounds super crazy and, well, unfair. Although I don’t quite often get visitors from the said country, I still don’t see it a just act, and being banned in Brazil can, still, in a way affect incoming traffic nonetheless.

I really couldn’t help but be curious when I saw in my Wordpress dashboard Lorelle’s post on Wordpress as banned again. I just have jumped from another blog provider to Wordpress and I was so struck with the headline mentioning the ban, fearing it will be worldwide. It is a relief that it is only in Brazil, this time, although in the past the same thing happened in China, Turkey and some other countries.

Why would every blogger using Wordpress platform suffer that national ban when that Brazilian judge, or the court, ruling against a Wordpress blogger can just put the punishment solely to him/her/it? And why, in all confusion, can’t the judge or the court just penalize the one who uploaded the sex video in YouTube? Or have YouTube kicked in the ass instead rather than Wordpress?

The banning of three million Wordpress blogs sounds totally pathetic, and dreaded. Lorelle is right, and I was struck by it, in saying:

Why aren’t we talking about this instead of the latest iPhone gizmo and useless SEO techniques? Why didn’t people get angry and protest loudly when WordPress.com blogs were banned in Turkey, China, and other countries? WordPress.com continues to be banned in places - why aren’t we talking about this? Have we really become desensitized to the plight of other bloggers and the oppression of freedom of speech?

Have your say, Wordpress bloggers! Blog about this issue, and shout to the world banning all Wordpress blogs in Brazil is mean and unjust. It is not right that we become spoiled just because of a couple of rotten bloggers. The one-bad-apple-doesn’t-spoil-the-whole-bunch principle does apply in this case. And as Lorelle put it, “You don’t send an entire city’s population to jail because two people break the law.”