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Yahoo Censors Tumblr Porn

Posted by Soulskill on from the some-people-reportedly-surprised dept.

coolnumbr12 writes "When Yahoo purchased Tumblr in May, Tumblr founder David Karp said Tumblr wouldn't be changing, and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said, 'Part of our strategy here is to let Tumblr be Tumblr.' But a new search policy went into effect Thursday that excludes all adult blogs from Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines by disabling indexing of anything it tags as 'adult.' The policy effectively makes the content and 10 percent of Tumblr users completely invisible."

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  1. Re:Unsearchable != Censored by interval1066 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mayer can run Yahoo how ever she wants, its not like the first time a huge coporate entity made untrue statements about how they'd be moving forward. Plus, its porn. Waste of web space in my opinion. This is hardly big news.

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