#FreeGooglePlus - Provide Google+ Users With Mature Content Filters

Google+ users have been asking Google for over a year to implement a Mature Content Filter into the Google+ platform. This type of filter has already been used for several years in Google's core business, Google Search, under the name "SafeSearch filter". 

We have asked repeatedly for this filter and have been ignored repeatedly. Google already enforces age restrictions on Google+ users, and requires all users to provide their age, so it is possible for them to lock mature content away from users under 18 years of age, and provide choice of filter level to adult users.

However, since Google has not yet implemented this feature, a valuable member of the G+ Community has been banned for posting artistic nudity. Moan Lisa's Art Akademie has become a hub of artistic activity and adds considerable value to the Google+ Community as a whole, while some other users who regularly post explicit pornography seem to have been allowed to continue doing so with impunity.

The following is taken directly from Google's Help pages:

About Google's SafeSearch filter

Many users prefer not to have adult content included in their search results (especially if kids use the same computer). Google's SafeSearch filters provide you with the ability to change your browser setting to prevent adult content from appearing in your search results. Google uses automated methods to identify objectionable content, and constantly works to improve those methods based on user feedback. For sexually explicit content, our filter mainly relies on algorithms that look at many factors, including keywords, links, and images. No filter is 100 percent accurate, but SafeSearch should help you avoid most of this type of material. 

Dear Mr. Page,

Since Google+'s Community Manager has not been listening to her community when we've been asking for Mature Content Filters for over a year, we the undersigned are going over her head and advising you as Google's CEO, Larry Page, that we want you to ask Google's engineers to make implementing a "SafeSearch Filter" into the Google+ platform a top priority, so users like Moan Lisa can continue adding value to the community without fear of being banned for posting artistic nudity.

*Keep in mind that Google was one of the largest participants in the January 18, 2012 STOP SOPA internet blackout, and supported a free and open internet. However, because you are not currently offering your users the choice to filter mature content out of their streams, you are not providing us with a free and open social network.

We came to Google+ for a reason. Don't give us a reason to leave.  

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