…And it’s Back!
Those who follow my blog (that’s a number very close to 0!) must have been in shock for the last month or so. That is because there was no blog here to visit between 23rd May and 20th June (just a couple of days ago). The why is pretty simple: Blogger removed my blog due to alleged copyright infringement. The what and how, not so much, though! Blogger didn’t tell me what was the problem before or after the takedown and even post-reinstatement of the blog I’m none the wiser.
In the meantime, I’d posted on Reddit and even the infamous website, Blogger Support Community in an attempt to figure out the steps for appealing this unjustifiable decision to remove my whole blog! Because as you can see in the screenshot above, no such information is given in the email, which Google Blogger is liable to do according to their own policy statement! But all that was to no avail. After that, I asked Copilot what I could do and it gave me one relevant bit of information: the actual link to the counter-notice page. I submitted the counter-notice to the above takedown notice and without any lag (or so it seemed), I received a reply that no action has been taken to take down my blog in response to a copyright removal request. That reply even suggested my blog could be offline due to “policy violations”, which if you read the above email message, doesn’t seem at all to be the case! Anyway, I was back to square one and trying to find the correct page at Google to appeal the “policy violation” was a wild goose chase, because I’m pretty sure such a page does not exist.
This was the status of my effort till last weekend in trying to understand why/how my blog went dark. Then at the start of this weekend, out of the blue, I noticed my blog was back online. No explanations whatsoever!
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