We all know that links to Free Planet posts are banned, as par for the course, on Facebook. Now, there's something even more sinister that could affect EVERY SINGLE BLOGGER on this e-planet.Localised Domain Law:
I just noticed a mikephilbin.blogspot.com.au linking directly to the content of my blog. Had someone set up a specific private redirect to my blog? Had someone just cloned my RSS feed for the purposes of sharing the know? I didn't much care as long as this meant I got my message of Free Planet to more and more readers. But that's not what this is about at all. It's a direct action from Google itself, who host the Blogspot machine.
The changes, which will be taking place over the next few months, Google claims "will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law." The result of this is that content removal, and the taking-down of blogs can be managed on a "per country basis".
Although it states that blog readers may search a specific country version "by entering a specially formatted 'NCR' URL stands for "'No Country Redirect", it is not clear whether content removed by localised domain law will still be viewable.
Further explanation of country-code top level domain, or "ccTLD" exists on Google's own support page.
Though I can't guarantee it for all your Corporate Sub-divisions, let's hope your 'country' is seeing the whole picture, as promoted by Free Planet and not something like a cut-down version, annotated maybe, censored, or worse, rewritten.
