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"Must-read" political blogger Ann Althouse, who has been blogging for seven years, and was a speaker at BlogHer '06, is missing her blog today.

Though it hosts the blog, Blogger's service outage doesn't seem to have caused the problem. According to the discussion Althouse had in the Blogger help forums, an appeal has been submitted for review to lift a lock due to the blog's being flagged as spam.

Meanwhile, Althouse is blogging at her backup blog and a Save Ann Althouse's Blog! page is lively on Facebook.

Update: Althouse's main blog is back up and running as of Sunday, May 15.

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Read the back story and Ann's latest posts on her backup blog, Althouse2.

Has your blog ever been flagged for spam? What did you do?

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dianaelee
dianaelee 5 pts

Which reminds me I need to do a back up. Scary.

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LizaWasHere
LizaWasHere 5 pts

Of course Blogger shouldn't be censoring political blogs based on content. But I think it MAY be premature to assume that's what's happening.

Questions:

1) What happens to Blogger-hosted blogs that get complaints as being spam?
2) Was Althouse's blog treated the same way as other blogs that get the same kinds of spam flags? If not, why not?
3) Blogger has been a hot mess the last day or so. Do we know this problem is not related?

What kind of problem this is -- censorship, technology failure, incompetence, or some combination -- would be helpful to know before judging what happened. I think it is unfair to Google/Blogger to assume that this is explicit political censorship.

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Denise
Denise 9 pts moderator

I'm pretty much speechless.

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