Tumblr says it will permanently ban adult content from its platform beginning December 17
Tumblr will ban 'female-presenting nipples … Heather Kelly / CNN : How Tumblr's adult content crackdown could alienate users Andy Meek / BGR : Tumblr is banning all adult content in a major shift for the Verizon-owned platform Justin Wise / The Hill : Tumblr to ban adult content after issues with child pornography on site Tumblr Support : Updates to Tumblr's Community Guidelines Janet Burns / Forbes : Tumblr Announces Adult Content Ban Starting Mid-December Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tumblr to ban all adult content in two weeks SLHamlet / New World Notes : Tumblr Algorithm Tagging Virtual Lesbian Images As “NSFW” — But Virtual Female Nipples Apparently OK David Cohen / Adweek : Tumblr Will Ban Explicit Adult Content Following Removal of Its iOS App Scott Shackford / Hit & Run : Tumblr Says It's Banning Porn. This Will Not End Well. Rachel Kaser / The Next Web : Rest in peace, Tumblr Mike Snider / USA Today : Tumblr to ban all adult content beginning Dec. 17, and some users are fuming Mallory Locklear / Engadget : Tumblr will start blocking adult content on December 17th Remy Smidt / BuzzFeed News : Tumblr Announced It's Banning “Adult Content.” People Are Now Threatening To Leave The Platform. Laura Stampler / Fortune : Tumblr to Ban ‘Adult Content.’ Some Users Aren't Happy Laurence Dodds / Telegraph : Tumblr will ban ‘adult content’ after December 17 Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire : Tumblr to block explicit sexual content and nudity in bid to make site a safer place Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Tumblr will delete all porn from its platform Gita Jackson / Kotaku : Tumblr Will Ban Adult Content This Month Petrana Radulovic / Polygon : Tumblr will purge most NSFW content under new guidelines Evan Selleck / iPhone Hacks : Tumblr is Banning All Adult Content Beginning December 17 Cohen Coberly / TechSpot : Tumblr is giving pornographic content the boot this month Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac : Tumblr set to remove all adult content from platform after being removed from the App Store Gordon Gottsegen / CNET : Tumblr will be porn-free starting Dec. 17 Roland Moore-Colyer / Inquirer : Tumblr will block grot content come 17 December Neetu Chandak / The Daily Caller : Tumblr Banning Adult Content Amid Child Porn Creeping Onto Platform Josh Jackman / PinkNews : Tumblr is banning porn, and users are devastated Matt Kim / USgamer.net : Tumblr to Ban All Adult Content in a Blow to NSFW Video Game Fandoms Mark Wycislik-Wilson / BetaNews : Tumblr turns family-friendly and bans ALL adult content Andrew Orr / The Mac Observer : Tumblr Porn Being Banned Starting December 17 Tweets: David Belson / @dbelson : Maybe by design? Since it's an Verizon property (via Yahoo>>Oath), maybe it's become too much of a liability for them. Can't imagine that Tumblr generates a ton of revenue, and they may have huge legal exposure for illegal content... Joe Ortiz / @leojtravis10 : Welp, Tumblr as we know it it is dead for three reasons IMO: 1) Years and years of Yahoo and now Verizon's mismanagement of the platform and failure to go after hateful content. 2) Apple and it's influence on the App Store. 3) Kamala Harris, the creator of SESTA/FOSTA. http://twitter.com/... @kamidog : I know everyone and their dog is already saying their bit about this, but this comes as a HUGE fucking blow to me Tumblr was always the main hub of sorts for GYM The only place you could really experience it as the multimedial and interactive thing it is http://www.theverge.com/... Sarah Jamie Lewis / @sarahjamielewis : Wow this condescending post by the CEO is somehow worse than the actual policy. “ We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.” http://staff.tumblr.com/... Oliver Haimson / @oliverhaimson : Calling this content-ban “A better, more positive Tumblr” is insulting to all the people (mostly marginalized people) whose lives have been changed for the better through @Tumblr blogs that included NSFW content. Better and more positive for who exactly? http://staff.tumblr.com/... Samantha Cole / @samleecole : everything about this is so incredibly patronizing, but this line kills me http://staff.tumblr.com/... http://twitter.com/... Katie Notopoulos / @katienotopoulos : This is absolutely terrible. Between Tumblr banning adult content and Flickr getting rid of its free storage, it's impossible to imagine the millions of images and pieces of content that will be gone forever from the mid-00s/10s internet http://www.theverge.com/... Brian McCullough / @brianmcc : Perhaps never before has a single move so obviously and (probably) so instantaneously put the nail in the coffin of a social media platform. http://www.techmeme.com/... Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Tumblr is deleting all porn. Massive opportunity for some other blogging platform to pick up the infinite niche fetish communities that lived there http://www.techmeme.com/... Nick Abouzeid / @nickabouzeid : This is a massive, dumb decision for user engagement. Hard to conflate how much of Tumblr's engagement is around adult-ish, anonymous niche communities that aren't allowed to exist on Facebook, etc. Reddit & Twitter must be jumping for joy http://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer