jokes aside, on a completely serious note, regardless of how tumblr justifies the decision regarding the ban, the value of porn on this shithole website is incomparable to the safety of the children exposed already
I don’t even look at porn on Tumblr or care about it, but the new rules are emphatically not going to help any children. I don’t see anything in the new rules that would do a thing about text comments redirecting to pedo stuff. Instead, the new rules confirm that Tumblr is not going to hire moderators, they’re just going to implement a cheaper algorithm-based system, which will, of course, eventually be gamed by faster-evolving porn spambots.
Here’s a public health analogy: let’s say you’re facing a massive bacterial outbreak, except you’re too greedy to pay for real medical care, so you just dramatically spray your target population with cheap antibiotic disinfectant and tell them you care about them so much, everything you do is out of love, etc. Then, over a period of time, the cheap disinfectant kills the weaker germs, encourages the stronger ones to breed and all of a sudden everyone starts coming down with MRSA. And every single expert knew it was going to happen and they warned you ahead of time.
So wild that instead of guidelines online moving towards no kind of body being considered inherently sexual and inappropriate we’ve gone onto like explicitly admitting that it’s the association of a body w womanhood that makes it inappropriate and dirty
good idea to ban nsfw content on a 13+ website. like as a concept, it is a good policy!!
no more cp
children will not get exposed to nsfw shit on here anymore (literally you could not search the tag of any female character, including adult ones, without finding porn of her. after this ban was announced, a 15 year old i know’s first reaction was “finally i can search any tag ever”)
no more dudes with blogs that are just gifs of stolen footage from sex workers
no more nerds with hentai blogs. theyre not inherently bad but i personally hate them
bad things about the nsfw ban
will hurt sex workers who use this site to advertise
bad implementation: things getting incorrectly flagged as nsfw. several sfw lgbt tags and a few fandom tags (like, for children’s tv shows) were made unsearchable, and some innocent people’s blogs were deleted. this is more a problem with the implementation, than the policy itself.
not necessarily a bad thing about the nsfw ban, but a bad thing related to it: tumblr ONLY did this bc they got taken out of the app store. they don’t actually give a shit
things that are unrelated to the nsfw ban but important to note
tumblr still hasn’t banned the terfs or the nazis, and they need to.
tumblr STILL promotes pedophilic content. in their “year in review 2018″ thing, many of the “top ships” listed were pedophilic (like sheith) or incestuous (like thorki). this is disgusting.
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