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Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th (theverge.com)
Tumblr, the underground social media site known for its pornographic content and tight-knit community, will be instituting a major change to its guidelines in a couple of weeks. The company said in a blog post today that it will permanently ban adult content from its platform on December 17th. The company flatly stated that "adult content will no longer be allowed here." The Verge reports: Banned content includes photos, videos, and GIFs of human genitalia, female-presenting nipples, and any media involving sex acts, including illustrations. The exceptions include nude classical statues and political protests that feature nudity. The new guidelines exclude text, so erotica remains permitted. Illustrations and art that feature nudity are still okay -- so long as sex acts aren't depicted -- and so are breastfeeding and after-birth photos.
After December 17th, any explicit posts will be flagged and deleted by algorithms. For now, Tumblr is emailing users who have posted adult content flagged by algorithms and notifying them that their content will soon be hidden from view. Posts with porn content will be set to private, which will prevent them from being reblogged or shared elsewhere in the Tumblr community. "Blogs that have been either self-flagged or flagged by us as 'explicit' per our old policy and before December 17, 2018 will still be overlaid with a content filter when viewing these blogs directly," the blog post reads. "While some of the content on these blogs may now be in violation of our policies and will be actioned accordingly, the blog owners may choose to post content that is within our policies in the future, so we'd like to provide that option..."
After December 17th, any explicit posts will be flagged and deleted by algorithms. For now, Tumblr is emailing users who have posted adult content flagged by algorithms and notifying them that their content will soon be hidden from view. Posts with porn content will be set to private, which will prevent them from being reblogged or shared elsewhere in the Tumblr community. "Blogs that have been either self-flagged or flagged by us as 'explicit' per our old policy and before December 17, 2018 will still be overlaid with a content filter when viewing these blogs directly," the blog post reads. "While some of the content on these blogs may now be in violation of our policies and will be actioned accordingly, the blog owners may choose to post content that is within our policies in the future, so we'd like to provide that option..."
Why would they put the gun to their head and pull the trigger?
Thank the Repukes for SESTA/FOSTA. Also, female nipples aren't "pornographic". Male ones are wired to be just as much of an erogenous zone. The only difference is that female ones also fulfill a different useful function.
Ah well, welcome to America, where extreme violence and guns are just fine and dandy, but people have a titty fit at the sight of a tenth part of an areola.
Honestly, what other use does tumblr have?
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Basically they're shutting down the website?
For one day? Really? :)
Who's next?
One of the nice things about Tumblr is that it served as a nice home for exactly the sort of people who liked the kind of content you would often find on Tumblr. If you're not familiar with the website, it has a reputation for featuring the kind of erotica that tends not to be published on more mainstream porn sites. So now you're going to get a lot of furries, adult-baby fetishists, and all manner of other sexual oddities looking for new homes. That's right folks, 40-year old men that like jerking off to erotic My Little Pony art, coming soon to a web community near you.
If the government should subsidize anything it's Tumblr and 4chan. You'd be hard pressed to find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, but it keeps those people from being somewhere else for most of the day.
*Now* where will I go for porn on the Internet? I guess it's back to looking at extra-curvy pieces of driftwood.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Internet is for PORN... That's its only function.
Can we get a ruling on traps?
Tumblr shut down.
I wonder why they don't just have an adult section - break the site up into 2 aspects. Otherwise, I'm sure tumblr will simply be a thing of the past.
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lol,
Uhm, It passed 97-2 in the Senate with half of the Nay votes being Republican and 388-25 in the house with 13 (Over Half) of the Nays being Republican.... So basic Math would tell you that it had MORE Democrat support then Republican......
The bill passed the senate 97 - 2 - exactly one Republican voted against, and one Democrat.
It had no-one from your supposed two "parties" that would dare stand against it. If Hillary had been president you'd have exactly the same bill...
If you aren't libertarian by now, this is the bill that should have made that happen. Instead you are spewing partisan nonsense just trying to earn points for your "side". - do you even care about the bill? About the tens of thousands of women negatively impacted?
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So now you're going to get a lot of furries, adult-baby fetishists, and all manner of other sexual oddities looking for new homes.
What a giant opportunity for someone to scoop up the 99.9% of Tumblr users posting erotica, and quickly switch them to a new platform...
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for making the world a more boring place again
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It passed 97-2 in the Senate with half of the Nay votes being Republican and 388-25 in the house with 13 (Over Half) of the Nays being Republican.... So basic Math would tell you that it had MORE Democrat support then Republican......
any explicit posts will be flagged and deleted by algorithms
Yeah, there won't be any false positives at all, No Siree Bob, it's AI, it's the future, it's foolproof, written by the lowest bidding contractors.
Oh well, I guess what's left of Tumblr will be up for sale soon.
We couldn't have burned it to the ground without your political correctness and incessant need to signal.
Sex is Bad! Violence is good!
Everybody get Naked! Rip the clothes off every woman you meet and let her parade naked. Do the same yourself. Reject the prudes! Fuck 'em. Death fight!
While it seems apparent many people here aren't aware of it, there are huge troves of content on Tumblr which isn't affected by this in the least.
I'm not saying this is the right decision - or the wrong decision - but the idea that Tumblr exists just for porn is silly.
#DeleteChrome
A good way to self destruct I guess.
Larry Flint would not be amused. He has an opinion linked here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt...
Bye Bye Tumblr
ban , sex but violence and gun fetish 'porn' is ok.
Tumblr will ban itself
Anyone can turn on the TV and watch people getting shot, beaten, raped, etc ... and there are very few people who say anything about it. Sure, it's all acting and fiction, but it sure looks real.
But a woman accidentally flashes a nipple during a Super Bowl half-time show - something babies see several times a day - and the country has a melt down - "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" or they find it "offensive".
Most of this country is a bunch of juveniles that really needs to get a grip and grow-up.
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I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
"Ugly trannies only, please!"
I'm anarchist. I'm honestly hoping and praying for divisions in the US to tear the country apart. If the US is broken up into 5 or 10 different countries
How does *50* different countries grab you? Because that is what states were supposed to be, independent entities.
Become libertarian and push for more stuff to get pushed down to state control rather than the pipe dream of a quasi-totalitarian federal government ever ceding control entirely.
It's already close to that way in some regards with things like drug laws, We just need to push for more aspects like that, from a state level (worked for drug laws, should for other things as well).
Incidentally this is also why as many people as possible should support and use digital currencies like BitCoin so that banking regulations cannot be used as a means of control.
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...my wrist!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Are Christians who don't much care for sex.
We'd also still likely have slavery in this nation. A key moment in the consolidation of federal power in our nation was the civil war.
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Can they ban breast feeding and after birth photos too? Leave those to sites dedicated to them.
Announcing 18 December as the death date for tumblr.
Goodbye
Because our target audience is no longer 18-25 white males who love pr0n. Yeah right.
Let me throw out an alternate opinion, one which I haven't seen in the previous 100+ comments.
I'm happy this is happening. There is a lot of good non-porn stuff on Tumblr, and I will finally be able to remove Tumblr from my router blacklist without feeling tempted by the sea of porn. Believe it or not, it has nothing to do with being a right-wing or Christian or Islamic or Jewish religious nut. You see, I chose to stop using porn because I didn't like what it was doing to me, and I saw far too many studies of how damaging it is to the human male.
So I added tumblr.com to my router and OpenDNS blacklists, because I decided not to let myself wander the halls of porn on any website, and it was just too tempting to go down the wrong trails when I stumbled on a Tumblr link.
I'm sure the "damaging" thing is going to raise eyebrows, but let me explain. Don't mod me down because you disagree - I'm just hoping to pass along a lesson learned, giving people something to think about, even if they don't come to the same conclusion.
Here's what I observed about porn use in my own life. For one thing, it kept me thinking about things that were alien to my relationship with a wonderful woman who is a terrific lover already. By training me to focus on what *I* wanted all the time, it made me selfish instead of focusing on how to please her. It made me unsatisfied with a love life that was far better than as a teenager I ever dreamed it could be. It taught me to respond better to my own hand than to my partner. I realized that when I wasn't frequently jerking off to porn, my sexual response to my partner was far, far, far more satisfying, even if it took some patience and time and had the risk of not being perfectly in control. It made me unsatisfied with my partner's imperfect body, so that whenever I was enjoying her I was distracted by thinking about some imaginary set of "perfect" breasts and impossibly lithe flat tummy that were unavailable to me. Sorry, but childbirth isn't friendly to most women's bodies, and you don't see any porn stars with stretch marks. Finally, it was a huge time-waster. I got back hours a week to do better things. And all these things were born out by numerous studies that show that an awful lot of sexual dysfunction today is caused by porn, by men training their minds and bodies to respond to impossible things that have nothing to do with real women and relationships based on give-and-take and selflessness.
In short, my decision was based on real, practical observation of myself, not a religious standard. So I'm happy that I can finally have un-tempting access to Tumblr content.
Before you say "yeah, you just don't have any self-control; you're counting on Big Corporation to keep you in line." To that, I reply: For one thing, I put the block in place, and I was quite able to bypass it if I decided to do so (and I did so from time to time, despite my better intentions). It was just a simple barrier that reminded me of my own decision. For another thing, how many times have you told yourself you watch too much porn? And yet you keep at it? Sometimes, having someone else help you stick to your own decisions is a good thing. If you have such great self-control, more power to you - but you're in the minority, according to many surveys.
So don't disparage this point of view because you're better than me - recognize it may help others with what they want to improve in their lives.
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I wasn't that deeply hooked into Tumblr, but today all I did was reblog a post with a screen capture of the ban, and delete everything else.
Have fun fighting it out with Pinterest and Etsy, that's all the content you're going to have left!
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
I thought the line between curation and censorship involved whether the interfering party had A. a government-granted monopoly or B. market power (as defined in antitrust theory) over the dissemination of information. To what extent does Tumblr have either, other than sharing a parent company with RF spectrum licensee Verizon Wireless? The Larry Flynt editorial you linked mentions Google, Facebook, and Apple, which are far more likely to have market power than Tumblr.
A new technology gets its start in porn. Porn makes the new technology grow big. Once it thinks it's big enough, it bans porn.
IT sounds like suicide.
Hum, let's see, who owns Tumblr? Why, it's Yahoo, isn't it? Is anyone surprised by this? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone....?
any congress critter who voted against that bill was going to get hammered during reelection with "soft on crime" adverts. The two who voted against it are both completely "safe". Short of a dead girl or a live boy neither of them have to be afraid of the "Willie Horton" effect
Still, I was a bit shocked Bernie and Warren went in for it.
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and kick the right wing "Clinton Democrats" out. You'll be there, right? 'cause the left wing tried to primary Pelosi and got shot down last time...
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It's my main source for porn images and some videos, and 100% of my use of Tumblr. And I'm sure I'm not alone in this. Their user base is going to plummet and I hope they are ready for that.
It wouldn't surprise me to see them in trouble in a year.
I thought that's what tumblr was for? From what I read, it's a hookup/one night stand site and a place for prostitutes.
...Tumblr will die a slow cold death in under 24 months, I reckon.
Why would you think that 50 individual quasi-totalitarian states with minimal oversight are better than one federal government which has everyone watching it?
There is a huge reason - with the federal government, everyone may be watching it but - MNO ONE CAN SEE ANYTHING. It is too vast, too far removed (physically and in all other ways that matter) to truly observe.
Something managed by a state can be pretty big also. But it changes the dynamic when ANYONE can pretty easily go visit the people who run everything, can go talk or protest or whatever. It's all more local people and not Graft Central so few states would get people coming from all over to get a piece of that tasty government pie...
And that itself points to a big reason, that the sums involved are less and so the reward for control is less, distributed across 50 states instead of one giant winner-takes-literally-all lump.
The only aspect of the Trump presidency that has disheartened my slightly is that even as people continue to cast Trump as the most demonic force politics has ever seen - even in this case they STILL demand the federal government retain more and more control... it's because of the sad delusion they think they can take it all back in short order. I wonder how the second four years of Trump may change minds on that score...
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Your fetish is ok by popular vote. Great!
What the fuck.
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They should have simply restricted it more. Better age gate, or something.
That site appeals to a very very wide subset of interests, there's stuff there you can't get elsewhere and from my understanding, it's the majority of the traffic to the site.
Honestly there's such weird stuff there, it's great to make you feel normal, no matter how off you think you are, there will be stuff on there too make you feel very very normal.
I generally associate Tumblr with softcore porn. Like suicide girls with fewer tattoos. Wonder what else it's used for...
and there is having your mind so open that your brain fall out and all kind of crap comes in. Complete 100% free speech and liberty means 100% anarchy and rule of the mob or the strongest. That is why we have series of law curtailing both in various fashion in all countries. The question (the answer to which is not *objective* but rather cultural and subjective) is where do you put the limit and what do you enforce. And as such understanding that "some people put the limit at different point" is far more open minded than a blind mantra of "any limit is anti free speech" (especially since the one not liking those limit are the same one wanting to make the life hard for lgbt and remove protection from them - the same way they used to enjoy oppressing people with a skin color different than white).
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no adult content. that sounds about right. fuck tumblr
As an act of civic courage I'd like to say the following
1) I look at Tumblr porn regularly. Actually it is in bursts; sometimes an hour at a time for days on end, other times weeks will go by with no porn. My internal state is reflected in my internet usage. I'm fascinated by the categories and what they mean. There should be more academic research but the academics I know say any publication on the subject is a death sentence professionally. And there is clearly a lot of Russian/foreign influence pedaling and hidden ideology on Tumblr. The new owners want clean hands and they are willing to pay the financial price. I both applaud them and regret what we are loosing.
2) Google searches for porn are revealing. Hit "Safe search off" and check it out. But no Tumblr material shows up unless you specifically ask with a search like "Tumblr, bukakke (sic), interracial (or just IR), and trannie" The results are amazing but largely hidden from the average viewer. This is how censorship now works. And maybe it isn't a bad idea for the corporation and the viewers who don't want to see the stuff.
3) I want to watch it but am deeply troubled by the idea that 11 year-olds are being mentally and emotionally formed by this stuff.; Ask the kids. It is always "Well, some of my friends..."; ask "Do your parents know?" and they give you the "Are you kidding" look. So if you are an adult with kids, ask- privately. Especially the kids of your own gender. The results are everywhere and totally invisible to most adults. Tumblr Ana sites are hugely informative- and dangerous; troubled 18 year-olds with daddy issues know how to suck dick like a pro (and they are smart, thoughtful half-formed little humans). Tumblr legitimizes everything.
4) Congresspeople in both parties are as troubled as I am. I have no idea if this is good legislation or not, but something needs to be done here. How do we balance the need to protect kids, my right to watch all the porn I want and the privacy of people like me? I'm not sure but age has made me a lot more humble about the problems of honorable people grappling with issues like this.
Articles of Confederation. When it became obvious that states were gaming each other with the valuation of their currency, disallowing currency from nearby states to be used for payments in their own jurisdictions, etc forced the hand towards a centralized government. A whole lot of 'think of the xxx groups' later and we've got the current American government, powerful, corrupt, pulling the same shenanigans as those individual 13 states were pulling back before the Constitutional Congress but doing so on a far more grand scale against far more malleable people. The major rebellions of the first few decades of American history are long since in the past. Even something comparable to the million man march is beyond us now.
Literally the only way America will see a shakeup is when the petrodollar becomes the petroyuan, or the United Nations relocates its presence in NYC somewhere else, causing American 'leadership' (and I use that term loosely) to be eroded, providing the shift in power necessary for Russia/China to put the final nail in the globalist anti-authoritarian coffin and begin the spiral into a situation worthy of true global revolution, which in turn will fail because surveillance has become ubiquitous enough that the organization necessary for large scale rebellion or protest will be censorable, trackable, and supressable for financial resources any major state can afford. Gone are the days where a few thousand heroes could leave the cowering masses in revolution. Today the cowering masses can easily be kept in line first with bread and circuses, then with the velvet covered iron fist, and finally with the telescreen and its streetlamp cousins of surveillance.
...they got tired of being in business and having users, eh?
This is like thepiratebay announcing they will only serve legal torrents :)
There are plenty of Usenet providers out there.
None of which are bundled in the price of home Internet access. This puts Usenet behind a $75 to $120 per year paywall in addition to what you already pay your ISP per month and per gigabyte for Internet access. (Source: "Best Usenet providers of 2018" by Desire Athow)
Yes, but the gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with the plauge of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of the Brutals.
Don't pretend you suddenly give a fuck about free speech. You cheered Alex Jones being deplatformed - now it's a bit harder for pedophiles to trade kiddy porn, and you take arms?
Go make your own website for pedophilia if you dont like it.
I really like the Ello concept where you are required to tag your content. which allows for filters at CONSUMER'S discretion.
On a more general leve, I can't underestand the relationship between (many) americans and nudity.
Where I live, if someone walks down a beach wearing ONLY a gun holster , people will discuss the gun, not the tits or penis :)
I've read several American people describing their trip to a no-swimsuit-allowed european sauna as if they had been to Mars and back !!
I can understand it on a personal level, but some oil in the moral compass can't hurt.
Relax :) (and apologies for grammar and spelling mistakes)