Thanks. A comment from that discusion, by yanw, points out that this may be more accurately construed as an anti-censorship measure. http://support.google.com/

Thanks. A comment from that discusion, by yanw, points out that this may be more accurately construed as an anti-censorship measure. http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2402711 http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an... By utilizing ccTLDs, content removals can be managed on a per country basis, which will limit their impact to the smallest number of readers. Content removed due to a specific country's law will only be removed from the relevant ccTLD. EDIT: I imagine it could increase censorship if this weakens Google's resistance to local censorship demands. Though content would still remain available at *.blogspot.com (I assume).