Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Log out. Paige Leskin. Tumblr 's ban on content featuring nudity went into effect starting December 17, The decision was met with lots of backlash from users who view the site as a safe space to explore their identity and sexuality through "not safe for work" NSFW content.
Many Tumblr users said they planned to abandon the platform for alternative blogging websites that allow explicit content, some which can be found below. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Loading Something is loading. Email address. Deal icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Companies—especially large ones—are risk-averse. About the queer and sex-postive communities that felt threatened and erased.
About how hard it is to find somewhere to go that would be as safe as Tumblr had been. The only semi-helpful result of this high-profile disaster in platform censorship is how well-publicized its failings have been.
So Tumblr decided to use an automated system. One that it admitted straight out would make mistakes. And make mistakes it did. Right after the new ban was announced, Burstein ran into a number of her posts being flagged.
The CW would never allow that to exist in canon, but these fan-imagined romances once found a welcoming home into the wild world of Tumblr. Tumblr started in as one of the earliest successful "microblogging" sites on the web. Users could post their own words and images to the platform, which allowed those ideas to spread further than ever before. Users of rival forums like LiveJournal or Yahoo message boards could face punishment or bans for posting NSFW content, but Tumblr allowed its users to express their freedom.
The site continued to grow, pulling in tens of thousands of users who wanted a place to share their world with other like-minded folks. Users worried that the corporate attitude of the search-engine giant would lead to stricter rules and censorship for the site. They weren't wrong: NSFW blogs were secretly tagged by Tumblr devs and started to disappear from Tumblr searches shortly after the acquisition, only discoverable by those actively looking for that content.
As the years went on, Tumblr introduced its own tagging system that allowed users to flag their own blogs as NSFW, but it also continued to limit their reach. In November , the Tumblr app was mysteriously deleted from the Apple App store. Tumblr and Apple kept silent about the change for days, until adding an update on the official Tumblr Help page saying that it was removed for "child sexual abuse material," or child pornography.
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