It’s painfully clear that the likes of Nic Miller and his barking mad group of right wing nutbars are advocating violence. The threat here goes way beyond implied violence in so far as the ‘Glock’ imagery goes and is unfortunately symptomatic of such ideologies and groups.

Google should take a long hard look at itself too, it’s projected image as a clean company is bound to cop a hammering when it continues to host such racist crap.

Dan, I didn’t even mention the paedophilia blogs that Google permits with no questions.

What’s in it for Google to allow these sites?

Sozzy, I’ll suggest a financial motive.

If Google won’t moderate nor edit any Blogger user content (which Google obtain for free), they don’t pay any editors. That in and of itself would be a major expense. The (attempted) moderation and editing of Blogger content is now being borne by ‘hitlist’ victims, their communities and eventually the courts. It’s not like Google won’t edit user submitted content; they’re having that experience right now with their new YouTube acquisition.

Google also sells GoogleAds which run on some Blogger sites. While the ads are not mandatory on all Blogger blogs, the income to Google from those blogspot sites that do run them can’t be insignificant. Less content means less viewer traffic leaving less incentive to advertisers to buy ads.

However, Google could dump all their bad content and not even approach a 1% cut in online content. While that numerically insignificant yet demonstrably harmful material remais online, the community suffers, not unlike the ‘irresponsible publican’ scenario.

Once again, a flag means nothing.

If you’re referring to the ‘flag’ (objectionable content) button on blogspot blogs, you’re quite right. It only prompts Google to put a ‘content warning’ on the blog. It’s a badge of honour to these morons.