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Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content

posted by mrpg on Saturday December 08 2018, @11:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the verizon-takes-aim-at-nippels dept.

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Verizon takes aim at Tumblr's kneecaps, bans all adult content

Oath, the Verizon subsidiary that owns the Yahoo and AOL digital media brands, has announced that as of December 17, all adult content will be banned from the Tumblr blogging site. Any still or moving images displaying real-life human genitals or female nipples and any content—even drawn or computer-generated artwork—depicting any sexual acts will be prohibited.

Genitals and female nipples will only be permitted within the context of breastfeeding, childbirth, and in health-related subjects such as gender confirmation surgery. Written erotica will also remain on the site.

Nowadays, pornography represents a substantial element of Tumblr's content. A 2013 estimate said that around 11 percent of the site's 200,000 most-visited domains were porn, and some 22 percent of inbound links were from adult sites.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @12:13PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @12:13PM (#771505)

    A friend of mine had a tumblr account, and one day he found it filled with MLP porn. I didn't even know what MLP *was*. Tumblr educated me.

  • (Score: 2) by deadstick on Saturday December 08 2018, @02:31PM (3 children)

    by deadstick (5110) on Saturday December 08 2018, @02:31PM (#771532)

    I didn't even know what MLP *was*

    ...nor did I. Eewww.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @02:36PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @02:36PM (#771535)

      No, seriously, I thought the world was a seriously screwed up place before I found out that the MLP porn was an abstraction of the show.

      Now I can't remember if it was Clay (Sexy Losers) or AndyOH (tmi-comic) who suddenly found their feed populated with MLP porn. Oh well. That's the Good Old Days now.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by hendrikboom on Saturday December 08 2018, @11:05PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Saturday December 08 2018, @11:05PM (#771693) Homepage Journal

    For those who don't dare to look it up in case it involves NSFW images, MLP appears to be My Little Pony.