The Real Blogger Status

We've recently seen a few blog owners, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue , report their blogs being classified for phishing. Today my blog was locked due to "phishing": Hello, Your blog at http://xxxxxxx.blogspot.com/ has been reviewed and confirmed as in violation of our Terms of Service for: PHISHING. In accordance to these terms, we've removed the blog and the URL is no longer accessible. No, there was no phishing in this blog - and no, I didn't change or add anything to it recently, that could trigger a false detection or report.

Occasionally, in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , we see signs of people who don't understand the concept of unique Blogger identities - or contrarily, Blogger identities which won't be unique. I can't publish my blog to the name that I want. or Another blog is using the same name as mine! or Someone is impersonating me!!

One issue in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , that has always fascinated me, involves how we validate our existence, as a Blogger blog owner. Along with the periodic demand I want that URL for my blog - it's my name! and Why was my blog deleted? comes the intriguing demand I want that blog deleted - the owner is impersonating me! Some time ago, Blogger provided us with a definition of the complementary concepts of defamation and impersonation . Impersonation (identity theft) is a Blogger TOS offense - and if righteously reported, can be judged by Google Legal. Defamation (ridicule, slander, trash talk), on the other hand, is a civil or criminal offense (depending upon your country of residence) - and must be judged in a government court. Even with the difference defined, there are ways to confuse defamation and impersonation, in forum discussions.