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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?
Yeah.
Its a fundamental issue with this country.
Our standards on sex and violence really need to reverse.
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Honestly, what other use does tumblr have?
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Or the US needs to split up and let the Bible Belt/flyoveria go their own way and leave more open-minded places at peace...
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.
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...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Thank the Repukes for SESTA/FOSTA.
No biggie, the democrats will repeal it when they take over, right? Just like they did with asset forfeiture, mandatory sentencing, NAFTA, the patriot act, war in Afghanistan, and the entire middle east. Yeah, that's the ticket. Democrats will fix everything.
*sigh* So sad to see this tribal bullshit is still so effective
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Being anti free speech and anti liberty isn't exactly open minded.
lets see if the usage statistics back your statement in about a month...
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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A nipple is a harmless organ. In fact, a positive one, since it's a source of a life-giving fluid. It's not even a hand or foot, it's soft, squishy, and can't be used to beat anyone up. Its only two purposes in life are nourishment and enjoyment. There's no rational argument to ban images of female nipples.
A gun on the other hand, has only two uses: to maim or kill. OK, you can hunt for food with one too, but most of the guns in "gun porn" ain't hunting rifles.
I saw far too many studies of how damaging it is to the human male.
[citations needed].
I haven't seen any credible studies at all so if you have anything, I'd like to read it. There is a lot of pop-culture conjecture but very little scientific support. I do remember reading a study about the lack of high quality porn studies though. From what I remember, most studies were non-experimental (literary analysis etc) the few that were experimental were low quality (poor design, small sample etc).