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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @05:45PM (2 children)
Though this is an admirable idea, when happens when I shut my computer off and thousands of posts vanish until I turn it back on? Or my hard drive craps out and some data is lost forever? Or my computer gets infected and it starts serving up infected posts in place of the originals?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @08:14PM (1 child)
We need a healthy ecosystem of federated social networking servers. The task for those of us with the know-how is get such servers set up, perhaps for family, friends, social groups or what-have-you. A basic Linode instance is only $20 per month, reasonably within the means of many people in the working class.
(Score: 2) by legont on Sunday December 09 2018, @04:18AM
And what happens if child porn is found on such a node by authorities?
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