Making a plea to Blogger.
A few days ago I was looking through my site meter, checking out some stats & seeing where people are coming from. I came across a blog that stumbled onto mine through the "next blog" button. I clicked the URL. I almost died. I got nauseous. I felt disgusted. What the hell! How can this be on Blogger?!

Now, I've surfed though the "next blog" button before. I've found some of my favorite blogs, interesting blogs & I've found some trashy adult blogs. Whatever. To each their own. By no means do I want to incorporate a censorship policy. If you're an adult, you can make adult choices. It's your adult decision. However, when it involves children, it's illegal.

Looking though the Blogger Home page & Dashboard, I couldn't find any direct contact information to report this blog so it could be deleted. The only information that I found was on the "flag" option. This is lame. To get Blogger to notice a "questionable" blog, it takes an outcry from the masses. I flagged it anyway. It didn't make me feel like there was a resolution. I reported it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. I felt a little better that the law was involved. But not really. The blog is still up. And after a round about email, no response back from Blogger.

As a Mother, a survivor of abuse & a human being with a conscious, I feel like something else needs to be done. I feel like my efforts have been futile. I won't rest until I feel like the right thing has been done. I can't rest until it's deleted.

I also feel that there needs to be a change, or rather an addition to Blogger. There needs to be direct contact information so that illegal blogs such as this can be deleted. With the millions of blogs out there, it's difficult to police them all. It's up to the subscribers & readers to take a stand. How are we supposed to do this without the proper avenues?

This is where I need everyone's help. I know there aren't thousands or even hundreds of people reading our blog, but there are enough to make a difference. Please, everyone who reads this post, spread the word. We need Blogger to listen to us in this situation. All we need is a simple way to report illegal blogs. That's it. It shouldn't be difficult. If flagging is the only option, I will not link that blog to our family blog. No way. I don't want pedophiles to be directly escorted to pictures of my son. However, I will send out emails with the link. The sad thing about this is that everyone will have to go to the blog that displays the illegal content in order to flag it.

Please email me or link to this post or, if anyone knows someone who works for Google or Blogger, send them here. If you've been in a situation like this & have had success with a different option, let me know!



***Update 8/23***

Thanks to everyone flagging the blog & sending emails to NCMEC or other child protection sites, the blog has been deleted! I really appreciate all of the help from friends, family, mom bloggers & the moms from Baby Center. Without this kind of reply & support, that blog could have been up for a while. THANK YOU!!!!!!