Blogger Or Wordpress???

[rhianna]

Originally Posted by daryllau

- most importantly.. it belongs to YOU!

Daryl brought up a very important point.

I live in the United States.
Back in December Blogger/Google invaded my hosting account and deleted a blog entry that I hosted/paid for via 1&1 hosting because of a thinly related court order in the UK. I received this e-mail from Blogger: "Blogger: court order received, post removed" and it said:

Hello,
We'd like to inform you that we've received a court order regarding your
blog www.xyz.com. Upon review, we've noted that content in a
post in your blog is not in compliance with the court order. As a result,
we've had to remove the post at
http://www.xyz.title of blog entry
Thank you for your understanding.
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

My blog entry was removed even though I published everything on my own host and not with blogspot and everything I wrote was in compliance with the laws of the United States. Blogger's act of deleting my entry was due to a court order in the UK.

All I did was comment on a report from The TIMESONLINE with the link to the original article.

I poked fun at the fact that the Sultan of Brunei's ex-wife, Mariam Aziz, was dumb enough to waste an enormous sum of money on a fortuneteller -- that was the focus of my blog entry but since "the incident" touches upon the fact the she had an affair with AMR Hendawy, Blogger used the passwords to my FTP account to remove my blog entry since the Sultan has decreed that nothing should be written about the topic; meanwhile it's still possible to view the original article from the TIMESONLINE that inspired my blog comments.

If you publish a Blogger blog to your own host, Blogger still has control over it even though the blog is not a blogspot blog.

If you publish a WordPress blog to your host, you are in total control of your own blog, no one will surreptitiously delete one of your blog entries.

I stopped the updates to my Blogger blog[s] due to Blogger's action.
I'm still trying to figure out how to configure a unique WordPress theme.