WGA Strike: Someone (AMPTP?) Asked Google to Shut Down UnitedHollywood Blog… and Google Did It

What the hell, it’s been a while since I posted something full of linkery dealing with the WGA strike, and it’s been a freaking fun day.

In what I can only call Extremely Stupid and other bad words, Google shut down the United Hollywood Blogger Blog at the request of the someone in favor of the AMPTP; they had flagged the WGA blog as “spam” and Google enacted the usual bureaucracy without a human eye review.

A flagged blog can no longer update until 4 days have passed for review. False flagging has actually been something of a problem, and is usually used as blog war tactics. Immature tactics.

Yeah. Well.
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