In an about-face due to widespread pressure from the blogosphere, Google said Friday that it is rescinding its move to bar sexually explicit content on its free blogging platform, Blogger.

Google announced Tuesday that starting March 23, bloggers using its platform would no longer be permitted to "publicly share images and video that are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity on Blogger."

But a "ton of feedback" prompted Google to alter course.

"This week, we announced a change to Blogger's porn policy," Jessica Pelegio, Google's social product support manager wrote in the Blogger Help Forum. "We've had a ton of feedback, in particular about the introduction of a retroactive change (some people have had accounts for 10+ years), but also about the negative impact on individuals who post sexually explicit content to express their identities. So rather than implement this change, we've decided to step up enforcement around our existing policy prohibiting commercial porn."

Google is asking bloggers to tag pages containing pornography so that an "adult content" warning comes up when the page is accessed.

In 2013, Google barred ads with adult content on the Blogger platform.