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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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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.
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?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
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...
He can fail his math all he wants, the fact that you are even engaging in a bargain despite 185 votes being an astounding enough number to paint you as a hypocrite, and a dumb one at that, by throwing all blame on Republicans, is in itself telling of your integrity. The fact that Feminists are emulating the Christian "original sin" by merely rewriting "everyone suffers from it" to "males suffer from it by existing" and that they've also taken on the puritanism from Christians, heralding a visible double standard and contradictory switch of liberalism from it's sex positive and sexually liberal past into a mutaween trend (i hope you know what a trend is in the dictionary), is not one which shall be ignored or put a blind eye towards.
You think there's a problem with the prosecution having to prove a crime? That's exactly how it's supposed to work!
I'd have been all for letting the South leave in 1860, then embargoing the CSA and financing a slave revolt. The problem with the Civil War is that the same people running the slave system ended up in charge after Reconstruction ended. If the rich slavers had ended up being expropriated or simply executed, then their legacy wouldn't have stuck with the US for the next 150 years in the form of Jim Crow and a generally draconian legal system by Western standards.
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).
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Wouldn't Tumblweed be more appropriate?
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Porn is fantasy and not meant to be taken seriously. If porn is interfering with your relationship, or ability to have one, then you're doing it wrong. If you're indulging in porn, you're doing it wrong. If you have little self-control when it comes to porn, chances are you have little self-control in other parts of your life, too. Discriminating against porn is just making it a convenient scapegoat. That's especially true here in the USA, where we love to demonize porn, which results in a paradox where our porn is just terrible, and we indulge in it because we know it's terrible.
This is why I have such a love/hate relationship with porn. On one hand, I like what it represents, both physically and emotionally. On the other hand, I can't stand most mainstream porn, because it's often boring, stupid, and strongly emphasizes only the physical aspect of sex. It's too shallow, fantastic, over-the-top (like CGI in movies), tends to overplay the "naughty" angle, and it hardly ever looks like anyone is enjoying what they're doing.
I'm an artist, but I cut my teeth on comic strips and comic books. To me, story, character development, and humor are very important. I draw lots of porn, but I try to make my stuff more creative, and it usually focuses on committed couples enjoying the finer parts of their relationship. Alas, this seems to be a bit uncommon, and it's probably why I have so many fans, despite the fact that I have little spare time and don't post artwork very often. Given that my content is, in my opinion, a bit better than the typical hedonistic trash, I certainly don't agree with the decision to ban porn just because other people, arguably even most people, do it "wrong".
The porn we tend to like is a symptom of more fundamental cultural issues. Discriminating against adult-rated content will not fix that, and it just reminds me of all those web sites that try to enforce quality standards (which never works and always causes the death of the site). In your case, I think you just finally realized that the kinds of porn you used to like... just sucks. Good for you, but that doesn't justify making it harder for me to responsibly enjoy what I like (or try to fix it if I don't).
Sorry, but childbirth isn't friendly to most women's bodies, and you don't see any porn stars with stretch marks.
Yeah, but that's a culture problem, not a porn problem. Cue the movie with the heroine with no zits or wrinkles, slashing bad guys left and right with a katana, and then emerges from the scuffle with perfect hair and all her makeup intact. That's also why I hate most mainstream movies!