Posted by Josh~ in Info, Link, Other
What happened so far?
Some of you might have noticed that Nibblebit — which was the hope of all the bloggers who saw their blogs getting deleted by Blogger/Blogspot, Tumblr and even SensualWriter – started to reject blogs with even G-rated pictures of teenagers. Here is what happened: Someone filed a complaint about a blog hosted at Nibblebit which contained child porn (while that can be a fully dressed 17 year old in a “suggestive pose” nowadays) with Nibblebit’s hosting company which caused the latter to suspend Nibblebit’s server affecting not only the blog in question but all blogs hosted by Nibblebit. Nibblebit switched to another hosting company and while they were not able to recover the data of the old blogs most bloggers there restarted their blogs just to find out that Nibblebit doesn’t allow them to run boy-related blogs anymore.
I’m not sure if that leaves Nibblebit with any blogs at all since pretty much all of them where blogs about boys in one way or another. But however, personally I won’t miss Nibblebit: The service was always full of annoying ads and I even read quite a few reports about people who got a virus through the obviously not so well checked ads there. The more interesting question here is where the now homeless bloggers will end up. At least the ones who are not silly enough to try to open such blogs at Blogger/Blogspot over and over again will have to find a new place to host their blogs eventually. Read on...
What now?
People asked me if I’m willing to host some of the former Nibblebit blogs but as much as I wish i could there answer here has to be no. I share the views of most of you who think that the laws about what “child porn” is nowadays (see above) are totally bizarre and just wrong but I can’t change these laws and have to live with them. Many of the blogs at Nibblebit were pretty lax about photos of naked teens. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate any anarchistic twist around the laws Christian fundamentalists are forcing upon us but to be completely honest with you… I don’t really believe that most of the bloggers posted these boy dicks as a fuck you to the governments and obedient industry but just because some of them didn’t realise yet that we don’t live in the 70’s anymore where naked 14 year olds were a usual sight in mainstream gay magazines. And I don’t really want to put the milkboys server at any risk by hosting blogs with such sensitive content – especially considering the fact that this server is paid with donations of faithful community members. This would be just unfair towards them, don’t you think?
The future
So, where should you go if you want to run a picture blog about boys? There is no easy answer here. While it was never easy to get away with such a blog at services like WordPress.com or Tumblr it’s getting actually worse recently. Blogger even started to remove plain gay blogs who had not a single picture of anyone who looks even remotely close to being underage. This is where we’re heading. Our Western societies are becoming more and more hysterical about everything related to sex and this will make it even harder to blog about a topic that might be related to sex or can potentially get connected to this subject by others. Parents in the UK are not allowed to watch their children at the playground anymore because they are seen as potential child molesters and you think you can blog about teen boys without getting accused of being a rapist? Ha.
The last chance I see right now is The Pirate Bay. They have a blogging service called BayWords which claims to be open to everyone whatever they want to blog about as long as it is legal. Now The Pirate Bay guys are known for having another definition of legal than our governments so you might actually be able to run and, most importantly, keep your blog there if you don’t turn it into a pedo haven (just don’t post photos of little Russian boy “models” in underwear, that’s downright disgusting anyways). But of course there are downsides: 1. You get only 100 MB webspace for your blog which means you will have to host your photos somewhere else eventually. And you don’t even wanna try to host pictures of boys on crappy sites like PhotoBucket, TinyPic or ImageShack, they get deleted before you can shout “But these pics are perfectly legal!” (they don’t care). There is a Pirate Bay service for this too – but BayImg isn’t really famous for its reliability. And 2. you never know how long one of the many side projects of The Pirate Bay stays alive. They are in legal trouble all the time and no one knows how long they can fight back as successful as they do at the moment.
I don’t know about any boy blogs at BayWords yet so if you should decide to try them you are welcome to share your experiences in the milkboard. Feel also free to add any suggestions or views on the topics in the comments below.
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Posted by Josh~ in Link, Other
It looks like all blogs hosted on Nibblebit are gone for good. Here’s what they posted about the situation:
There seems to be some confusion. WE(NibbleBit) DID NOT remove any blogs. The company who hosts the NibbleBit servers recieved a complaint. The server was suspended. We have no access to the server or the backups. This is why the blogs are gone. We DO NOT condone child pornography. The hosting company recieved a complaint that NibbleBit was showing a blog, which they believe was showing child pornography. This is ILLEGAL and against our Terms Of Service. Due to this fact we are unable to recover backups. We will now keep daily backups offsite, with other providers to ensure this doesn’t happen again. We encourage visitors of blogs to report any innapropriate material using the report a blog page. Reports will be dealt with promptly. NibbleBit will now operate a ZERO tolerance on illegal materials, so please make sure that any adult content is 18 years +. For a limited time signups will recieve UNLIMITED BLOG SPACE.
UPDATE: I have removed all Nibblebit blogs from the link list in the sidebar which seem to be completely dead. If you’re the owner of one of them and planning to bring your blog back feel free to contact us once your blog is back up to get added back to the list.
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If you ever wanted to see a few of the little visual treasures before they get published on one of the many blogs I do you should keep an eye on we ♥ it which is an online picture bookmarking service where I save some of the things I stumble upon while digging through the web. Do you have an account there too? tell us in the comments, I need more people I can follow :)
@thiagonimphador, @sexdeathrobots, @peachthing, @gllasi & @xephonia –
I dunno who you are but your hearts give me erections <3 Stay fab!
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Come visit us from time to time, ok? :)
Say Bye~
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Posted by Josh~ in Link, Other
Blogger / Blogspot removed more than 20 blogs I was following this month alone, I won’t list them all here, I just wanted to let you know about this in case you’re thinking about making a blog. Don’t use Blogger if you wanna keep it.
Please
mail us if a blog linked on milkboys is offline or if you have a blog and wish to be linked here (preferably about
teenage boys and non-commercial). Please note that we don’t link blogs hosted at Blogger a.k.a. Blogspot anymore.
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I guess the guy running Nibblebit, a new blog hosting service running the WordPress multi user engine, was hoping for some free PR when he mailed me about his new service and the first blogs hosted there are popping up already, so here we go. Nibblebit is pretty much the same as WordPress.com as for the technical aspect. There are a few differences worth noticing ‘tho. For example: It allows “adult” content
The downsides? It’s clearly there to bring in cash. Nothing wrong with that of course but before you dump your current blog you should be aware of the fact that ads are shown on top of free blogs hosted at Nibblebit and some features are “Premium”, which means you have to pay for your account to get them. Besides that I have no clue who runs this, if their server is reliable, how long the whole project will live on and where they draw the line when it comes to deciding which content is really allowed there (their only statement on this is “it should be legal” – whatever that means). But if you feel like making a picture blog you might wanna give them a try.
Tried their service? Share your experiences in the comments. If you’re looking for a place for your personal blog you could also get one at milkblogs, just in case you prefer name.milkboys.org over name.nibblebit.com ;)
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