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14-Year-Old Blogger Tavi Gevinson's Blog 'Grounded' by Blogger

by Laura Kenney (Subscribe to Laura Kenney's posts)
Posted Apr 26th 2010 at 4:54PM  
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As one of the most photographed ladies at Fashion Week, 14-year-old blogger Tavi Gevinson has captured the eyes of the fashion flock with her blue-gray locks, their ire with her view-blocking hats, their ears with her public speaking engagements, and many of their hearts with her blog, StyleRookie.com.

But yesterday, followers of her online musings were met with the message: "This blog is under review due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations and is open to authors only."

Blogger had grounded Tavi, and just a few days after her 14th birthday (which the petite fashion pundit celebrated by judging a fashion film contest, natch).

The Style Rookie made a cub reporter mistake.

"OOPS, I violated Blogger's Terms of Service so they made my blog private. Not sure what I did and I don't find out for a couple days. Blah," said Gevinson via her Twitter stream. "Dunno if it's the birthday picture (I've posted editorials w/ nudity before) or an FTC thing. Blahhh."

But later, Tavi tweeted: "Looks like it was the Yohji photo. Oh come ON."

In honor of her birthday, Gevinson had posted a partially-clad picture of model Maggie Rizer wrapped in ribbon, from Yohji Yamamoto's Spring 1998 campaign, which violated Blogger's Terms of Service for nudity.

The good news is that Gevinson's blog is back up today. Responding to cries to "Free Tavi" on Twitter, a Google (which owns Blogger) spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal: ""The blog in question was mistakenly taken down by our automated system. As soon as we became aware of this, we immediately reinstated it. We have reached out to the user and apologized for the inconvenience."

But Tavi may face the larger issue of photographer rights as her blog becomes more popular -- the same situation Perez Hilton faced when his blog became widely read. Photographers and their agencies have rights to the photos they take and, technically, anyone who uses the photo on their site needs to pay for it or face legal consequences. Five celebrity photo agencies sued Hilton in April 2007 over his unlawful use of copyright pictures without payment or credit.

The agencies usually don't go after the small fishes, but once a blog starts making substantial money off its advertising, or gains a large following, the photographers may ask the blogs to pay up.

Regardless, now that Gevinson's blog is gaining popularity, it's time trade the clutches of Blogger -- which can shut her down at anytime like an overbearing parent -- for her own site.

And Tavi agrees.

She lated posted to Twitter: " Need my own domain, dammit! Then I'll post as many naked ads as I want! Not really! That's kinda weird! Now who's the punk who turned me in!"
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e, 4-27-2010, 4:44PM

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e

how long has she had this blog? isn't anyone concerned over how young this girl is?

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d.t., 4-27-2010, 5:04PM

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The net has opened up media to anyone who can type. It is sad that kids don't know how to use it without getting themselves into trouble. And parents blindly allow it under the guise of "self expression" without really understanding that they could be liable for what their kids put out there. There's nothing wrong with kids learning to express themselves, but they need to know the rules of the game first.

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Mark C, 10-03-2010, 6:32PM

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You're an imbecile. There is nothing in the "rules of the game" that says a 14-year-old can't post an artistic nude fashion photo

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mdog, 4-27-2010, 5:05PM

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mdog

yeah?? whats up with that?

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Joey, 4-27-2010, 5:07PM

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Joey

It's odd how Blogger shut her down for ONE picture while other bloggers on those sites are sharing copyrighted music and they have not been taken down. What a world we live in. :D

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bev, 4-27-2010, 5:14PM

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She says she has blogged nudity before SHES 14 YRS OLD Where the heck are the parents? Some parents will not pay attention to their children til they get into trouble and then they protect them. WE ARE TIRED OF WATCHING YOUR KIDS BE A PARENT FOR A CHANGE

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Vbabe, 4-27-2010, 11:43PM

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I don't think the nudity was of her, the site would have come under serious criticism for allowing child pornography. Anyhow she's just the next big theing, her five minutes of fame will be over soon enough.

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Mike, 4-27-2010, 6:05PM

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Too bad. The "Mainstream Media" could have used her a a viable source of information and protected the source because of her age since bloggers seem to be the newest quotable source.

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mat, 4-27-2010, 6:04PM

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she looks OLD

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Debi, 4-27-2010, 6:43PM

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What is a 14 year old girl doing posting nudity on her blog, and why is Blogger backing off after catching it? Where is this girl's parents? If I had a 14 year old girl who posted something like that on a blog, she'd get more than grounded by Blogger. She might be lucky to get her computer back by the time she's 30.

That is absolutely disgusting, and those people who support that blog should be ashamed of themselves for encouraging that sort of behavior. She's a kid. She's not 14 going on 40.

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Gigi, 4-27-2010, 7:15PM

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It wasn't nudity of herself. They were fashion ads. People need to get their panties out of a knot.

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Gigi, 4-27-2010, 7:17PM

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But I know Warren's point. That is why I have morals.

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CC, 4-27-2010, 7:41PM

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the website is THEstylerookie.com, not stylerookie.com. Get it right before posting at article about it.

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Rucci, 4-27-2010, 8:42PM

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She has the same glazed over look as Andy Warhol, shes going to start a magazine and run the scatt/clad fashion world with it.

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Lauren, 4-28-2010, 9:07PM

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This is the problem with the country we live in...what is wrong with nudity for fashion? Just because she is 14 doesn't make it inappropriate. Our society has made it inappropriate. There are plenty of other countries comfortable with nudity and quite frankly, every country should be that way. Stop being so close minded, everyone. Your 14 year old kids are probably doing way worse things. She made a blog about something she was interested in!

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Bethie, 7-07-2010, 1:19AM

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There is nothing wrong with artistic nudity; it’s not as if she posted some tasteless porno picture. I mean come on; America needs to get over this ‘fear’ of nudity. It seems like we are more comfortable with someone getting beat up or killed then the sight of a naked body which we all have. Would you object if your child posted a picture of the statue of David?

It’s not your job to parent her, let her real parents decide what’s right for her.

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lin, 9-12-2010, 9:34PM

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Tavi is the next Anna Wintour. She is an amazing kid.

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Gwen, 3-08-2011, 11:10PM

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It was an ad...you sound absolutely ridiculous.

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Air Max 90, 6-11-2011, 9:27PM

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