Will Google become the Wal-Mart of the web? Hopefully not! They have a we will do no evil motto!
In a taste of what may be coming Google owned Blogger is starting to censor blogspot sites based on readers saying the site has objectionable content. Read about the flag button.
This would be an excellent idea if restricted to spam. But your hot topic might be objectionable to me or Sally, or w, or, well, just about anyone. Heck, there are plenty of folks out there who will click on people’s Flag Button just for no reason at all…like vandalism.
It looks like blogger users might be able to remove the Navigation Bar and the offensive Flag button by removing this statement:

@import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/3.css);

from their templates.
Update: Tegan says you can’t remove this. Maybe if buy a pay service. I do see some blogger sites without the navbar.
By the way, have you ever contemplated the possibility of Google’s vast database of people’s search activities in the hands of some future thought police. Oh yea, the Patriot Act. Perhaps the future is not so far away.
Via A Stitch In Haste.