Tumblr Bans All Adult Content by December 17th

[Grenartia]

From what I hear, financial services and companies such as banks, hate handling transactions for porn websites. Why? Because accountants working for banks which do transactions for porn sites have noted over time that these websites are more correlated with high occurrences of fraud, money-laundering, identity theft and requests for refunds.

At best such content offends conservative sensibilities and at worst, it is illegal. So it is a huge hassle in terms of overhead. Payment processors charging interest of 30 to 50%+ per transaction isn't unheard of in those circumstances. Being an adult website in the eyes of a bank is quite a major con now. Financial companies aren't stupid, they do their due diligence and figure out what goes on with who they're doing business with.

You do realize Tumblr is free to use, right? Like, what kind of unwashed barbarian pays for porn?

[Western Vale Confederacy]

From what I hear, financial services and companies such as banks, hate handling transactions for porn websites. Why? Because accountants working for banks which do transactions for porn sites have noted over time that these websites are more correlated with high occurrences of fraud, money-laundering, identity theft and requests for refunds.

At best such content offends conservative sensibilities and at worst, it is illegal. So it is a huge hassle in terms of overhead. Payment processors charging interest of 30 to 50%+ per transaction isn't unheard of in those circumstances. Being an adult website in the eyes of a bank is quite a major con now. Financial companies aren't stupid, they do their due diligence and figure out what goes on with who they're doing business with.

You do realize Tumblr is free to use, right? Like, what kind of unwashed barbarian pays for porn?

The same people who would pay hundreds of dollars on Premium Snapchat for a camgirl to flash her tatas, I suppose.

[Grenartia]

You do realize Tumblr is free to use, right? Like, what kind of unwashed barbarian pays for porn?

The same people who would pay hundreds of dollars on Premium Snapchat for a camgirl to flash her tatas, I suppose.

People with more dollars than sense.

[Western Vale Confederacy]

The same people who would pay hundreds of dollars on Premium Snapchat for a camgirl to flash her tatas, I suppose.

People with more dollars than sense.

Those people seem to not be aware that most Internet porn is free and prostitution exists.

[RiderSyl]

I guess I'll have to get my fill of debauchery by going deeper into the dark shadows of the internet now.

Thanks Tumblr. Also, have fun going the way of LiveJournal, Tumblr.

[Prunasia]

I thought Tumblr was already dead, well, good riddance this time?

[Alvecia]

Dec 18th: one Tumblr page remains, titled “Bring Back the Porn”

[Costa Fierro]

Considering the kinds of people that populate that site, is it really any wonder that porn would eventually end up being banned?

[Alvecia]

Considering the kinds of people that populate that site, is it really any wonder that porn would eventually end up being banned?

....porn artists?

[Nettunia]

Personally I was never really interested in tumblr and only followed one blog of a person I know who posted drawings - as you might guess - of pornographic nature.

People campaigning against pornography always leave me quite perplexed and unable to respond cause I just don't get it.

[Western Vale Confederacy]

Considering the kinds of people that populate that site, is it really any wonder that porn would eventually end up being banned?

....porn artists?

Porn is art, my dude.

You realize how insanely well-made some of those panels are?

[Costa Fierro]

Considering the kinds of people that populate that site, is it really any wonder that porn would eventually end up being banned?

....porn artists?

These kinds of wonderful people.

Don't get me started on the anti-straight and anti-cis stuff.

[Exxosia]

Considering that most of the people that have been hit by tumblr's purges are things like food blogs, history blogs, and other non-adult content (and seeing how I have gotten 17 flags on things like a picture of a kitten, a 16th century map, and a criticism of the new york times, I think their bots are either awful or programmed for something entirely different than just "colors in this pattern equals porn"), I think this is mostly to do with that apple and google took the app off their platforms for a bit and that tumblr wants to do a greater purge anyway. They hit the adult blogs as cover for hitting other content they do not approve of.

The site is being controlled by the usual politically-and "morally"-bent sanitizers, but the ones at Tumblr are comically stupid and lazy in their approaches. They'll kill sites that say things they don't like, they'll kill adult blogs, but they will leave up brutal pedophilia and hate crimes. And long after this Tumblr will be basically reduced to a leftist cesspit full of nazis and pedophilia because they have to keep the people deranged and angered. Control the narrative, feed them hate until they cry out for more power to be given to the oppressor classes, wash, rinse, repeat.

People think of Tumblr and they think antifa, SJW, and left-crazies on one side and porn on the other. But in my experience, that's about a third of the content. There are conservative and libertarian wedges as big as the leftists', there are all sort of art and travel and writing blogs, some massively good food blogs and so on. Tumblr is aiming for a lot of those blogs too. I am not sure what the reasons are, but they're gunning for a lot of things. And soon they likely will have that truly, it will go from the maybe 8% crazy leftist and 30% porn it actually is to... well... what people think Tumblr actually is.

[Valehart]

There are more communities on Tumblr than porn, and they haven't nuked "most" of the community.

Hosting child porn is a legal nightmare (and should be) and thus the staff is protecting Tumblr as a whole. Anyone who can't get along without their porn GIFs can find more suitable places -- like porn sites.

No, they really have. I already posted earlier that their flagging system is a nightmare. Many posts that aren't NSFW are getting censored (believe me, I'm one of those artists who are getting affected). How their algorithm/bots detects the tiddies and thighs are doing it as poorly as their pornbots did in stamping out child porn.

....porn artists?

These kinds of wonderful people.

Don't get me started on the anti-straight and anti-cis stuff.

Tumblr is filled with that shit, but this affects the communities that have nothing to do with that. Now Tumblr's only going to be comprised of that. Epic

[Valentine Z]

All of this reminds me of YouTube's Copyright bot, except worse by several factors.

I am all in for banning questionable stuff, but the adult communities and the like could have just be reminded or have implements like Reddit.

"You are aware that this page is NSFW by continuing" type of warning instead of purging every single content. I will say it's just laziness, like using a nuke to hunt a mole; sure, you have killed and affected everyone who is not involved, but at least the darn mole is gone... right?

[Costa Fierro]

Tumblr is filled with that shit, but this affects the communities that have nothing to do with that. Now Tumblr's only going to be comprised of that. Epic

Good. More reasons to ban it entirely and de-platform these people.

[Valehart]

Tumblr is filled with that shit, but this affects the communities that have nothing to do with that. Now Tumblr's only going to be comprised of that. Epic

Good. More reasons to ban it entirely and de-platform these people.

Are you not listening? Artists that have nothing to do with Tumblr extremists are fucked. "Those people" are the ones who will slip by.

[New haven america]

Good. More reasons to ban it entirely and de-platform these people.

Are you not listening? Artists that have nothing to do with Tumblr extremists are fucked. "Those people" are the ones who will slip by.

He doesn't care, all he wants to do is get rid of the evilness that is women.

[Costa Fierro]

Good. More reasons to ban it entirely and de-platform these people.

Are you not listening? Artists that have nothing to do with Tumblr extremists are fucked. "Those people" are the ones who will slip by.

I am listening, I just don't give a shit about "artists". As long as it's a platform for hate, misandry, and racism, it should be consigned to the trashcan of internet history.

[Deutschess Kaiserreich]

Already several "artist" are jumping sites mostly to Twitter.

[Valehart]

Are you not listening? Artists that have nothing to do with Tumblr extremists are fucked. "Those people" are the ones who will slip by.

I am listening, I just don't give a shit about "artists". As long as it's a platform for hate, misandry, and racism, it should be consigned to the trashcan of internet history.

I AM ONE OF THOSE ARTISTS MATE. They cut off a possible revenue stream. It was the only redeeming fact about that shitty ass site. At least I can agree that it's a trashcan of hate, but the thing that infuriates me is that the only thing that saved it from being only hate is art. Now it'll ONLY be known for extremist blogs and posts. Although that's not much of a change if I'm gonna be honest.

[Saiwania]

He doesn't care, all he wants to do is get rid of the evilness that is women.

Well, from a Biblical perspective- it was a woman who led Adam astray and brought original sin to our entire world.

[Grenartia]

I mean, I'm convinced the Dumblr side of Tumblr is kind of like the CPUSA. Either fully infiltrated by people who don't really believe what they say, or the extremely gullible tiny minority who think the other group is being serious.

[Dumb Ideologies]

The caricatured popular perception of Tumblr, which had a grain of truth, involved the conflation of gender and sexual diversity with a radical identity politics and public perversion. In that sense I welcome its breakup because of its disappearance as a symbol for meme culture as a slur to tar respectable LGBT people as uniformly self-obsessed headcases interested in acts or images of depravity.

Tumblr as an idea is quite separate from Tumblr as a reality, though, and I'm sure that the majority of people there were good people. So it's unfortunate for them that the apparently hamfisted purge will hit innocent people and communities in the crossfire and probably kill off their site.

So I'm personally pleased but sympathetic to those good users caught up in this because losing a community is never a nice experience for those involved.

[New haven america]

He doesn't care, all he wants to do is get rid of the evilness that is women.

Well, from a Biblical perspective- it was a woman who led Adam astray and brought original sin to our entire world.

We've already been over this in TET, Adam and Eve were lesbians.