After 20+ years of writing in this weblog, I hit a snag last week. Someone, somehow, flagged my latest entry called "The Freezer" as spam. Google, who is the blog supplier, unpublished the entry and sent me an email about it. The post was about how my father kept a huge freezer full of food long after my mother and grandparents had passed. Why? He was doing it for his kids. Every time we departed from a visit, he would say, "Take what you want from the freezer." The conclusion that I made was that I do the same thing, even though my family is rarely here. Like father; like daughter.
It's obvious to me that no one at Google Blogger actually read the post. There was no profanity. No hate speech. No politics. No selling anything. No fraud. Nothing that could in the least bit be considered spam. Yet here we are...
All things considered, it wasn't a significant post. I was just reminiscing and trying to explain why I am the way I am, in case anybody was interested to read it. It's certainly not worth a fight OR my blood pressure, but I do think if something is going to be censored, there needs to be an explanation that, at the very least, the admins actually read the post before they "unpublished" it. My efforts to ask for a review have been met with broken links without much recourse. It's the principle of the thing.
We'll see how things go. Wish me luck!
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