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Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-myspace dept.

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..."

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  1. LOL out of business within one year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would they put the gun to their head and pull the trigger?

  2. Re:Thank the Repukes... by DarkRookie2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah.
    Its a fundamental issue with this country.
    Our standards on sex and violence really need to reverse.

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    http://progressquest.com/spoltog.php?name=Son+Of+Son+Of+DarkRookie
  3. Oh really, who voted against??? by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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    "There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
    1. Re:Oh really, who voted against??? by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 5, Informative

      The problem is that that's how it was supposed to be: sovereign states that run themselves how they want and a Federal government that only does the absolute minimum required to maintain a country with respect to the rest of the world, stuff like defense, protect the border, enact treaties... stuff like that, and ensuring basic rights. In the past 150 years, though, that's been flipped on its head, where the Federal government runs almost everything by default and the states run whatever's left. If the U.S. had remained how it was initially meant to be, your "broken up" scenario wouldn't be necessary because the states could maintain much more diversity.

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      You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  4. Re:Thank the Repukes... by fustakrakich · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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

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    “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
  5. Re:Thank the Repukes... by epyT-R · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Being anti free speech and anti liberty isn't exactly open minded.

  6. Re:Orange Man Bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:Thank the Repukes... by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.