The Blogger service, which hosts this blog, has always been accessible for the little bit of blogging that I want to do. However, I've always been aware that, if I were ever to become a serious blogger, I'd have to find a different service, because you always get what you pay for in a free service.
Ann Althouse, a law professor at Wisconsin, is finding that out the hard way right now. Althouse's blog was probably the most popular destination on all of Blooger, and certainly one of the best sources for following the contretemps in Wisconsin politics this year. But Blogger has removed her blog -- the whole blog. To add insult to injury, Google representatives have been mocking her as she has been trying to have the blog restored. All in all, Google has suddenly been revealed as a very unsavory cxompany with which to be doing business.
Open the floodgates, and let's get away before they come for us next!
Expect to see Althouse re-emerege shortly on somewhere like Pajamas Media. Meanwhile, it's time for all the rest of us who use Google for any key applications and have taken advantage of its free service for years to find a more reliable alternative.
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