“Tumblr will permanently ban adult content from its platform on December 17th in a move that will eradicate porn-related communities on the platform and fundamentally alter how the service is used,” Shannon Liao reports for The Verge. “The new policy’s announcement comes just days after Tumblr was removed from Apple’s iOS App Store over a child pornography incident, but it extends far beyond that matter alone. ‘Adult content will no longer be allowed here,’ the company flatly states in a blog post set to be published on Monday.”
“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,” Liao reports. “Posts with porn content will be set to private, which will prevent them from being reblogged or shared elsewhere in the Tumblr community.”
“Since Tumblr was founded in 2007, it has largely turned a blind eye to adult content. The company has tried to shield it from public view through Safe Mode and more stringent search filters,” Liao reports. “But in recent months — and under the ownership of Verizon’s Oath unit — it began to consider removing content more aggressively.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Behold the power of Apple and the end of Tumblr.
Remember, while the service exists (and, hopefully, Tumble does manage to reinvent itself), you can use the rather clean MacDailyNews on Tumblr to quickly find articles of interest!
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I thought Tumblr was for porn?
Never really got what was supposed to be the purpose of Tumblr and did not realize it had much of a user base.
When is Apple going to remove all of the “E” songs from the music store? Oh wait..that would be hypocritical to their hypocrisy. What looked to be 40% of the songs on the front page were “E”.
Don”t wonder. Jobs personally removed all Wiley published works because the book “iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business” offended him. All Wiley Publications!
Censorship sucks. This censorship now extends beyond the censors boundaries. How would you feel of it was the Church, a d not Apple?
Thjs is censorship, this whitewashing and Disneyfication is how they killed NYC.
Squeaky clean McDailynews! Tide not needed.
I feel so safe now. So so safe. With Apple making sure I don’t think anything they don’t like or see anything they don’t like, all I have to work on is not saying anything they don’t like.
I wonder when they’re going to get to work on those movies and music offerings they cary. No bigger repository of garbage, smut, sex, profanity, and violence exists on the face of this planet. I mean as long as we’re protecting ourselves from seeing anything naughty on Tumbler. Maybe they should start with some of the gay themed movies and television shows they offer.
Hypocritical bunch of incompetents.
Where am I going go to jack off now?
I only use Tumblr for porn. If they remove it permanently on December 17, 2018, then I will no longer have any reason to have the app on my iPhone.
Let the “Blame Apple!” Frothing-at-the-mouth commencent conveniently overlooking the part that says “child porn”.
The rest is on Tumblr, not Apple.
*commence
Tumblr = Porn
No Porn = No Tumblr
Fine! We’ll make our own Adult Tumblr, with Blackjack and hookers!
In fact, forget Tumblr.