After being elected last year Wendy Day, a member of the Howell Public Schools' board in Michigan, started a blog dedicated to educational and Christian topics. After her blog became a divisive force in the community she took it down. The page was quickly snatched up by a pornographer who took users to offers from a dating service and showed pornographic photographs.
The Detroit News reported that Ms. Day immediately contacted Google, the administrator for the free blogging service Blogger, and flagged the site as inappropriate. Once the pornography was removed Ms. Day reclaimed her website.
A Google spokesman indicated that once users delete their account their previous domain name is again available for general use. Ms. Day's blog, intended for discussion of educational issues, had turned into a forum for attacking her family values group.
Given the past attacks on Ms. Day's blog, it is highly unlikely that her blog was "pornified" by chance. Pornographers, commercial or otherwise, have a history of hijacking former domain names or using key words to embarrass individuals, companies, and even churches.
These tactics only feed arguments that pornographers are not genuinely interested in free speech, but rather in deceiving unsuspecting individuals into accessing their content and forcing it into environments where it is not wanted.
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