Interesting comment from the BBC on the Tumblr bans...
 

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46435975

The last paragraph is pretty cool...

From your article

“We’ve realised that in order to continue to fulfil our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change.”

So their vision of our future culture online is no porn. Lovely

"That change means marginalised people, those who are all-too-used to being ostracised in their offline lives, now face it in their online space too. Some of the internet’s most-needed communities are now homeless."

seems a little dramatic, unless we're considering places like art galleries and museums to be homes for people and not just their expressions

Their vision is no bots, spam and, most seriously, images of child abuse on their site.

So can people still write articles on adult material.

The real reason so many here are upset is they lost another place to spam.

So there are no other online communities for the expression of sexuality? I must be using a different Internet than the person who wrote that.

However Tumblr aren't doing themselves any favours in their automatic moderation.

eg:

https://bbspics.com/images/2018/12/0...r-flagging.jpg

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Pay attention Paul

Tumblr has banned all porn

Their future vision is no porn on any platform, as my quote explained.

P. S. You've never even had a Tumblr!:1orglaugh

They told they'll ban all pornographic content from 17 December and also mentioned "Every image uploaded to Tumblr is scanned against an industry database of known child sexual abuse material, and images that are detected never reach the platform."

Don't think it'll effect much adult webmasters.

Porn is likely just the first step. Tumblr is still in the wild west era of content submissions. The people who control and shape the world can't have that. After they ban nudity look for them to crack down on all sorts of "offensive" content just like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

This is what happens when shitlibs put the internet on lockdown in the name of creating "safe spaces". It was always a given that governments and NGOs would ruin the internet. We've known that for twenty years. I just never expected it to come from the left. It's one of the reasons I moved to the right -- which in the end were the ones all about no holds barred free speech.

Why should the majority of people on social media platforms, who have clearly and with their wallets said that they don't want to see porn on those platforms, be subjected to porn?

There are plenty of porn sites out there, where people can freely view and even share porn. There are huge platforms dedicated to porn right down to small blog sites dedicated to porn.

Nobody is banning porn from the Internet. Companies have decided, based on the wishes of the majority of their user base to deny access to porn on their platforms. If you don't like that then create your own platform - however I can guarantee that Facebook would be doomed if they allowed Porn - most people use Facebook for other reasons then those who are so inclined will head off to PornHub.

There are billions of pages of porn indexed, plenty of places to get a porn fix.

Wtf are you two talking about? Tumblr was banned from the Apple store for containing too much child pornography. This is a business pivot by a website owned by Yahoo. Not everything is a conspiracy. I’ve been in the adult industry for 20 years online and have heard these ridiculous rants every year. Do you know what’s really been happening? Faster and easier access to more porn with kinkier sex acts. You can go watch a girl sound like she is being raped and being forced to eat a guys asshole while being pounded in her asshole by another guy while being tied up and spit and pissed on while she is crying. This is almost considered normal now. We have tubes filled with millions of full length porn videos. Do you know what we had 20 years ago? Shitty pic posts with like 500 pics on the whole site and link lists to free sites with like 30 photos.

Tumblr banned porn because they are on a downward spiral and need to be kept in
the app stores. They are desperate and trying to pivot.

:1orglaugh

I was just checking my G rated Tumblr and saw a few of them marked explicit and laughed :1orglaugh

Something really fucked up going on at Tumblr, yet again. Not a way to make their creators happy.

Tumblr's new filtering system is very trigger happy, it's pissing off a lot of people. It would be better for Tumblr to just purge all of the porn based blogs and tone down the filter so the really bad content is flagged.

Problem seems to be is that they are on the back foot, the longer they lose their App user base, the harder it's going to be to retain users. They're rushing automated content moderation into place that should have been implemented over a year or more in just a couple of weeks. It's bound to blow up.

If you are on Tumblr and you don't want to see porn, you probably aren't going to see porn. The exception would be if an account that you follow uncharacteristically posts it -- which would put that account operator at risk of losing followers.

Tumblr already had a xxx ghetto set up in the form of the adult sensitive blog flag that defaulted to being on. And you need an account to turn it off. To me that is the perfect solution to having mainstream and adult materials on a single platform.

That is the theory, however there are tens of millions of explicit images visible on Tumblr without being logged in. The majority of the user base don't want that, the App Stores don't want that, the owners of the platform can't retain that and survive.

As I said, there's millions of places to get porn on the Internet. Social Media platforms that allow anyone under 18 to join are not the place for porn.

This is the type of " child porn" :1orglaugh:1orglaugh they are banning

http://picture-cdn.wheretoget.it/ch2pak-i.jpg

24 year old school girl :1orglaugh

Anyway, their site their rules. Move on.