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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: 2) by VLM on Saturday December 08 2018, @05:36PM (4 children)

    by VLM (445) on Saturday December 08 2018, @05:36PM (#771588)

    In a discussion on another site, Reddit is likely next and their traffic patterns are like 99% pr0n... take away /r/gonewild and a thousand other pr0n-ish subreddits, they already banned all the political subreddits to the right of Marx, there's not a heck of a lot left on Reddit.

    On the other hand its interesting in the analogy to /. and SN, where tumblr-pr0n or reddit-pr0n could probably be hosted under a new name on an underclocked raspberry pi, so it might be good for community development to shut down the "mostly pr0n hosters that clog up legacy social media"

    Speaking of pr0n nobody mention the "turn insta-thots into the IRS for not reporting prostitution income" meme that was popular a couple weeks ago? That's the same kinda hit for the same purpose but aimed at the individual whore rather than the pimp who's hosting the whores.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @07:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @07:41PM (#771633)

    hosted under a new name

    I vote for voat.co

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @09:48PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @09:48PM (#771679)

    they already banned all the political subreddits to the right of Marx

    You're a clueless idiot. WSWS (Literal Marx) and others on the real left are being censored as well. They only want us to see pseudo-left pabulum.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @03:46AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @03:46AM (#771783)

      If they are banning nipples, I'm pretty sure you are not going to see any pabulums, pseudo-left or not.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @12:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @12:09PM (#771893)

    Thank you
    So much
    Any more good links? :P