Looks like Tumblr is done with nudity.

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Looks like Tumblr is done with nudity. It was just a matter of time, if you ask me. Yahoo might have been willing to turn a blind eye, but there's no way Verizon was going to keep going that way.

And like Google+ before it, they picked a flimsy excuse to make such sweeping changes. Where Google decided a security breach was enough to shutter the Ploos, Verizon decided one case of child pornography was enough to shut down all nudity posts, not just the one account.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18123752/tumblr-adult-content-porn-ban-date-explicit-changes-why-safe-mode

Comments

Nick McIntosh said…
I sense a disturbance in the force, as if millions of porn tumblrs cried out at once ... and were silenced.

Seriously, does Tumblr have a valid use other than porn?
December 3, 2018 at 2:52 PM
Jason ON said…
Uh ... I don't know. I've never used the site.
December 3, 2018 at 4:51 PM
Terence “Terr” said…
I for one say "..meh." Tumblr was slowly turning into a hub ruled by bots. I mean, do a search for Saitama and you find tons of fanfare pornographic imagery. Eh, say what you want, but it was only a matter of time. I'll still use my account to source commentaries, but if it disappears for good in the next two years...it was fun.
December 4, 2018 at 9:28 PM
Jason ON said…
More:

And while data analysts have uncovered that, yes, there is a lot of porn on Tumblr, it’s coming from only a tiny fraction — about a tenth of 1 percent — of the site’s creators.


vox.com - Tumblr’s adult content ban hurts all of internet culture
December 5, 2018 at 4:09 PM
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