First and most of all I apologise for any inconvenience your visit to this humble Art Blog may recently have caused now it has been degraded by Google law to the levels of visiting a porn site.
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Obviously some sad and frustrated individual has complained about the contents of this Blog. It happened shortly after showing a picture of an Arts & Crafts woodcarving that has since long been in my possession: mating storches that thanks to Google are now considered "pictures of a certain, inappropriate, objectional and explicit nature".
In almost 10 years the Blog existed it saw almost 1.000.000 visitors from all parts of the Planet. Maintaining a blog about Art, aesthetics and beauty I've never seen or heard any (not one) complaint. It received thousands of friendly and thankful comments and emails. And not to forget: through Blogging I made some great and life time friends.
So please allow me to correct and update the picture probably in question. To Googles puritan and backward standards that are even laughed at in the caliphate. Where storches allso mate and forbode spring.
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To be honest: I really do not understand Google "policy": there has never been a complaint, no consultation, no message or notice of any kind. Whatso-ever. Nor does Google offer an opportunity to inquire, of hearing the other side, of explaining or ask for a revision. It simply stigmatizes with the click of a button.
After some serious thoughts I decided the time has come to quit blogging. I cannot and will not be associated with "dirty pictures and obscene websites" Google has now associated me with. For my family, my granddaughters who now must ask permission and consent from their parents to see what kind of filth "Opa" (granddad) may have shared and written. Besides, thanks to Googles'"Policy and Warning" visitor numbers have come to a halt recently. So why bother to continue ?
Those that count will know how to reach me. The research and the planned publications will continue of course. I plan to remove all (700) postings from the Internet in coming weeks beginning with the oldest. Allowing some time if there's anything you might want to look up or save.
Thank you for all you support, all send information about forgotten and obscured painters and printmakers and all dear comments left on the postings. It has been a great journey and experience.
What has happened ?
Obviously some sad and frustrated individual has complained about the contents of this Blog. It happened shortly after showing a picture of an Arts & Crafts woodcarving that has since long been in my possession: mating storches that thanks to Google are now considered "pictures of a certain, inappropriate, objectional and explicit nature".
The mating storches symbolise the coming of spring and new life.
(in many civilised and freed communities, liberated of stupid dogmas and blind puritanism)
So please allow me to correct and update the picture probably in question. To Googles puritan and backward standards that are even laughed at in the caliphate. Where storches allso mate and forbode spring.
To be honest: I really do not understand Google "policy": there has never been a complaint, no consultation, no message or notice of any kind. Whatso-ever. Nor does Google offer an opportunity to inquire, of hearing the other side, of explaining or ask for a revision. It simply stigmatizes with the click of a button.
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| Co-incidance ? This morning newspaper cartoon |
Those that count will know how to reach me. The research and the planned publications will continue of course. I plan to remove all (700) postings from the Internet in coming weeks beginning with the oldest. Allowing some time if there's anything you might want to look up or save.
Thank you for all you support, all send information about forgotten and obscured painters and printmakers and all dear comments left on the postings. It has been a great journey and experience.
All the best !