Idiots Are Trying to Get This Site Shut Down Again

They've been trying to shut this site down for a very long time now. In fact, they started trying to shut it down soon after it went up. I got comments on the posts telling me they were going to report me to Blogger. Then I got mail telling me the same thing. They also often said they were going to report me to the local police! LOL. Do it, report me to the cops, please.

After a while, Blogger put the site behind a warning screen, probably due to the volume of the complaints.

I put warnings all over the worst videos, listed all the bad reactions that they had caused, made it so the videos did not play right away, told people under 18 that they were not allowed to view the videos, told parents to invest in blocking software, etc. etc. Then I contacted as many parental and library blocking software companies as I could find, told them about my site and asked them to put it on the block list.

Hey, what more am I supposed to do?

Even after all of that, I continue to get regular comments and mail ordering me to take videos down, telling me they are reporting me to Blogger, or telling me they are reporting me to the police (LOL). Sources tell me that complaints have been pouring into Blogger about this site since soon after it went up. Blogger put up the content warning screen long ago, and I assume that they aren't going to do anything else.

Now the effort is going into high gear. The complaints have been taken to the Blogger Support Forum where Blogger staff hang out. Chuck Croll, a real asshole who hangs out on the site all the time making a nuisance of himself, has involved himself in the ban attempt. Chuck hates me for some reason that I've never been able to figure out, so this is personal. The idea is that the site violates Blogger's code. But I don't think it does at all.

Crude Content: Don't post content just to be shocking or graphic. For example, collections of close-up images of gunshot wounds or accident scenes without additional context or commentary would violate this policy.

Right. That's Blogger's policy. But we knew that from the very start here, as we read the TOS very carefully. In order not to violate, we find as much material as possible on any photos or videos and provide what we think is an excellent journalistic overview of the footage, often very well-sourced.

In fact, the site has been praised all around the web and even around the world for the high quality of its writing and the background that it gives to some of the worst shock footage out there. We do that so as to be in accord to with Blogger's policy.

This is not just a shock site. It's a serious journalistic endeavor. We never praise evil or criminals, and we condemn victimizers, the suicidal or the idiotic in the harshest terms. If there are victims, we pour our hearts out for them.

I fail to see what's so dangerous about the site.

Most comments on the site are from normal people. If there are evil people harming others, the comments are full of hatred for the evildoers. If there are innocent victims being hurt, the comments are full of pain, sadness and sympathy for the poor human lambs sent to sacrifice. The site seems to have a net benefit. It arouses people against evil predators and in sympathy of their innocent victims. As it should be.

We root for good against evil here, not the other way around. But we're committed to documenting reality in its harshest forms. If it's real, people ought to see it.

We don't show obscenity or porn on here because we don't want to run afoul of Blogger.

I'm certainly willing to work with Blogger staff to accommodate any of their concerns.

The site gets considerable traffic, in fact, it's more popular than some famous sites.