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  • EddyTheDog
    Just Doing My Own Thing
    • Jan 2011
    • 25433

    #1

    News Interesting comment from the BBC on the Tumblr bans...

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46435975

    The last paragraph is pretty cool...
  • Bladewire
    StraightBro
    • Aug 2003
    • 56228

    #2
    From your article

    “We’ve realised that in order to continue to fulfil our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change.”

    So their vision of our future culture online is no porn. Lovely


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    • _Richard_
      Too lazy to set a custom title
      • Oct 2006
      • 30991

      #3
      "That change means marginalised people, those who are all-too-used to being ostracised in their offline lives, now face it in their online space too. Some of the internet’s most-needed communities are now homeless."

      seems a little dramatic, unless we're considering places like art galleries and museums to be homes for people and not just their expressions

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      • Paul Markham
        Too old to care
        • Jun 2001
        • 52942

        #4
        Originally posted by Bladewire
        From your article

        “We’ve realised that in order to continue to fulfil our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change.”

        So their vision of our future culture online is no porn. Lovely
        Their vision is no bots, spam and, most seriously, images of child abuse on their site.

        When the new guidelines come into effect they will prohibit any depiction of human genitalia, “female-presenting nipples” or sex acts - including illustrations. There will be exceptions for classical artistic works and political protests that involve nudity, but the company warned enforcement might be inconsistent. Users are able to export their posts if they wish to leave the platform.
        So can people still write articles on adult material.

        The real reason so many here are upset is they lost another place to spam.



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        • AdultKing
          Raise Your Weapon
          • Jun 2003
          • 15601

          #5
          That change means marginalised people, those who are all-too-used to being ostracised in their offline lives, now face it in their online space too. Some of the internet’s most-needed communities are now homeless.
          So there are no other online communities for the expression of sexuality? I must be using a different Internet than the person who wrote that.

          However Tumblr aren't doing themselves any favours in their automatic moderation.

          eg:

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          • _Richard_
            Too lazy to set a custom title
            • Oct 2006
            • 30991

            #6
            Originally posted by AdultKing
            So there are no other online communities for the expression of sexuality? I must be using a different Internet than the person who wrote that.

            However Tumblr aren't doing themselves any favours in their automatic moderation.

            eg:

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            • Bladewire
              StraightBro
              • Aug 2003
              • 56228

              #7
              Originally posted by Paul Markham
              Their vision is no bots, spam and, most seriously, images of child abuse on their site.

              So can people still write articles on adult material.

              The real reason so many here are upset is they lost another place to spam.
              Pay attention Paul

              Tumblr has banned all porn

              Their future vision is no porn on any platform, as my quote explained.

              P. S. You've never even had a Tumblr!


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              • adentio99
                So Fucking Banned
                • Jul 2015
                • 366

                #8
                They told they'll ban all pornographic content from 17 December and also mentioned "Every image uploaded to Tumblr is scanned against an industry database of known child sexual abuse material, and images that are detected never reach the platform."

                Don't think it'll effect much adult webmasters.

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                • AdultKing
                  Raise Your Weapon
                  • Jun 2003
                  • 15601

                  #9
                  Originally posted by adentio99
                  Don't think it'll effect much adult webmasters.

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                  • Matt 26z
                    So Fucking Banned
                    • Apr 2002
                    • 18481

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Bladewire
                    From your article

                    “We’ve realised that in order to continue to fulfil our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change.”

                    So their vision of our future culture online is no porn. Lovely
                    Porn is likely just the first step. Tumblr is still in the wild west era of content submissions. The people who control and shape the world can't have that. After they ban nudity look for them to crack down on all sorts of "offensive" content just like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

                    This is what happens when shitlibs put the internet on lockdown in the name of creating "safe spaces". It was always a given that governments and NGOs would ruin the internet. We've known that for twenty years. I just never expected it to come from the left. It's one of the reasons I moved to the right -- which in the end were the ones all about no holds barred free speech.

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                    • AdultKing
                      Raise Your Weapon
                      • Jun 2003
                      • 15601

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Matt 26z
                      Porn is likely just the first step. Tumblr is still in the wild west era of content submissions. The people who control and shape the world can't have that. After they ban nudity look for them to crack down on all sorts of "offensive" content just like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook..
                      Why should the majority of people on social media platforms, who have clearly and with their wallets said that they don't want to see porn on those platforms, be subjected to porn?

                      There are plenty of porn sites out there, where people can freely view and even share porn. There are huge platforms dedicated to porn right down to small blog sites dedicated to porn.

                      Nobody is banning porn from the Internet. Companies have decided, based on the wishes of the majority of their user base to deny access to porn on their platforms. If you don't like that then create your own platform - however I can guarantee that Facebook would be doomed if they allowed Porn - most people use Facebook for other reasons then those who are so inclined will head off to PornHub.

                      There are billions of pages of porn indexed, plenty of places to get a porn fix.

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                      • forty
                        Registered User
                        • Oct 2018
                        • 36

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Matt 26z
                        Porn is likely just the first step. Tumblr is still in the wild west era of content submissions. The people who control and shape the world can't have that. After they ban nudity look for them to crack down on all sorts of "offensive" content just like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

                        This is what happens when shitlibs put the internet on lockdown in the name of creating "safe spaces". It was always a given that governments and NGOs would ruin the internet. We've known that for twenty years. I just never expected it to come from the left. It's one of the reasons I moved to the right -- which in the end were the ones all about no holds barred free speech.
                        Wtf are you two talking about? Tumblr was banned from the Apple store for containing too much child pornography. This is a business pivot by a website owned by Yahoo. Not everything is a conspiracy. I’ve been in the adult industry for 20 years online and have heard these ridiculous rants every year. Do you know what’s really been happening? Faster and easier access to more porn with kinkier sex acts. You can go watch a girl sound like she is being raped and being forced to eat a guys asshole while being pounded in her asshole by another guy while being tied up and spit and pissed on while she is crying. This is almost considered normal now. We have tubes filled with millions of full length porn videos. Do you know what we had 20 years ago? Shitty pic posts with like 500 pics on the whole site and link lists to free sites with like 30 photos.

                        Tumblr banned porn because they are on a downward spiral and need to be kept in
                        the app stores. They are desperate and trying to pivot.

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                        • Bladewire
                          StraightBro
                          • Aug 2003
                          • 56228

                          #13
                          Originally posted by AdultKing


                          I was just checking my G rated Tumblr and saw a few of them marked explicit and laughed

                          Something really fucked up going on at Tumblr, yet again. Not a way to make their creators happy.


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                          • AdultKing
                            Raise Your Weapon
                            • Jun 2003
                            • 15601

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Bladewire


                            I was just checking my G rated Tumblr and saw a few of them marked explicit and laughed

                            Something really fucked up going on at Tumblr, yet again. Not a way to make their creators happy.
                            Tumblr's new filtering system is very trigger happy, it's pissing off a lot of people. It would be better for Tumblr to just purge all of the porn based blogs and tone down the filter so the really bad content is flagged.

                            Problem seems to be is that they are on the back foot, the longer they lose their App user base, the harder it's going to be to retain users. They're rushing automated content moderation into place that should have been implemented over a year or more in just a couple of weeks. It's bound to blow up.

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                            • Matt 26z
                              So Fucking Banned
                              • Apr 2002
                              • 18481

                              #15
                              Originally posted by AdultKing
                              Why should the majority of people on social media platforms, who have clearly and with their wallets said that they don't want to see porn on those platforms, be subjected to porn?
                              If you are on Tumblr and you don't want to see porn, you probably aren't going to see porn. The exception would be if an account that you follow uncharacteristically posts it -- which would put that account operator at risk of losing followers.

                              Tumblr already had a xxx ghetto set up in the form of the adult sensitive blog flag that defaulted to being on. And you need an account to turn it off. To me that is the perfect solution to having mainstream and adult materials on a single platform.

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                              • AdultKing
                                Raise Your Weapon
                                • Jun 2003
                                • 15601

                                #16
                                Originally posted by Matt 26z
                                Tumblr already had a xxx ghetto set up in the form of the adult sensitive blog flag that defaulted to being on. And you need an account to turn it off. To me that is the perfect solution to having mainstream and adult materials on a single platform.
                                That is the theory, however there are tens of millions of explicit images visible on Tumblr without being logged in. The majority of the user base don't want that, the App Stores don't want that, the owners of the platform can't retain that and survive.

                                As I said, there's millions of places to get porn on the Internet. Social Media platforms that allow anyone under 18 to join are not the place for porn.

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                                • celandina
                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                  • Jun 2006
                                  • 11715

                                  #17
                                  This is the type of " child porn" they are banning



                                  24 year old school girl

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                                  • Paul Markham
                                    Too old to care
                                    • Jun 2001
                                    • 52942

                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by Bladewire
                                    Pay attention Paul

                                    Tumblr has banned all porn

                                    Their future vision is no porn on any platform, as my quote explained.

                                    P. S. You've never even had a Tumblr!
                                    When the new guidelines come into effect they will prohibit any depiction of human genitalia, “female-presenting nipples” or sex acts - including illustrations. There will be exceptions for classical artistic works and political protests that involve nudity, but the company warned enforcement might be inconsistent. Users are able to export their posts if they wish to leave the platform.
                                    Anyway, their site their rules. Move on.



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