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Tumblr users are leaving in droves as it bans NSFW images. Here's where they're going instead
business insider ^ | 8dec18 | editorial staff

Posted on 12/09/2018 4:24:36 PM PST by vannrox

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1 posted on 12/09/2018 4:24:36 PM PST by vannrox
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Unfortunately, Pillowfort is in beta and costs a small free to join,

Gee, I'd hate to think they were overcharging.

2 posted on 12/09/2018 4:26:35 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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I barely use Tumblr as it is and all my stuff is beyond boring anyway.

Thank you for the post.


3 posted on 12/09/2018 4:27:06 PM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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Not Safe For Wife ?


4 posted on 12/09/2018 4:27:40 PM PST by butlerweave
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I like that one.


5 posted on 12/09/2018 4:28:10 PM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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People don’t want to be censored by social media giants.

They want to say what they want not what NPC robots tell them to say.


6 posted on 12/09/2018 4:29:21 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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I thought racy or ‘adult’ content was the main purpose of Tumblr. Oh well. I don’t depend on it for anything anyway.
I almost never hear of any industry deciding to step away from such content. Maybe ownership has changed.

How about they buy Twitter next and clean that up of triggered snowflakes?


7 posted on 12/09/2018 4:31:31 PM PST by lee martell (AT)
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It’s not Tumblr who is making the decision. They’re complying with the new law regarding Sex trafficking. “Sex workers” posting imagery is regulated under the new law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_Act


8 posted on 12/09/2018 4:39:58 PM PST by Shadow44
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Whomever came up with the term “female presenting nipples” needs to die a hideous death.


9 posted on 12/09/2018 4:45:01 PM PST by Hugh the Scot (I won`t be wronged. I won`t be insulted. I won`t be laid a hand on. - John Bernard Books)
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Tumblr refused to do anything about the malware pages, child porn pages and other BS.
And then someone said, “yeah, you can get litigation cooties for that.”
They looked into this rumor and found the rumors were true.


10 posted on 12/09/2018 4:49:47 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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Verizon got Tumblr in 2017 when it bought Yahoo


11 posted on 12/09/2018 4:54:32 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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When I think of Tumblr (which I am not on) I think of the time I became obsessed with the strange case of Elisha Lam.

It’s the only time I have ever seen Tumblr, which I did because she had a blog on there.

But I was drawn to her blog after her bizarre death and strange surroundings to it, which was explained as her being bipolar and having an episode that made her commit suicide.

It did not however explain how she got into that tank and closed the lid behind her and no ladder was there when they finally found her.

On her blog, last day of her life, Jan 31, 2013 are were pics of a very high up building with a person on the top of it, and they to me were very spooky, making me think ok, suicide. http://nouvelle-nouveau.tumblr.com/post/42001369468/rcruzniemiec-eugene-soloviev

But then she did mention the ‘creepers’ in the hotel. Well, I suppose you could imagine that was the bipolar thing. But then how did she get IN the tank with top closed over her? No ladder up? How?

https://the-line-up.com/elisa-lam-bizarre-death

http://nouvelle-nouveau.tumblr.com/archive


12 posted on 12/09/2018 5:23:37 PM PST by Beowulf9
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I read that Tumblr was bought out c. 2013.

I would not be surprised if this was a case of convenient virtue signalling, while actually being corporate deliberately running a limited asset into the ground for a tax write-off.

I have seen it done many times in other industries.


13 posted on 12/09/2018 6:05:31 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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BUSINESS Insider is telling its readers where to go for NOT SAFE FOR WORK content.

They aren’t a business or investment advice site but they sell a lot of click bait.


14 posted on 12/09/2018 7:37:53 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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A lot of them are going to follow gun owners to PornHub.


15 posted on 12/09/2018 8:10:50 PM PST by tbw2
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#9. I thought that “female presenting nipples” was all the rage at the Oscars (which I haven’t watched in 20 years).

Going the way of the original Playboy magazine, I guess (which I haven’t seen in over 20 years).

What next, Gallery and Hustler will change their policies???


16 posted on 12/09/2018 9:15:30 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: vannrox; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...
Thanks vannrox.

17 posted on 12/10/2018 6:51:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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Tumblr is only censoring adult content as a cover for their planned censorship of conservative content.


18 posted on 12/10/2018 9:42:26 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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I am neither pro or con on Tumblr’s decision, but you are wrong as to its cause.

The Tumblr decision goes far beyond anything needed to comply the sex-trafficking law.

“Adult content” is not necessarily in and of itself part of “sex trafficking” or contributing to it.

The legal answer has to find a sex trafficking context in either who puts the material up, the persons depicted in the material, or any suggestion of sex trafficking the material makes. That is not to say much adult material is not offensive to a good many people, but only a reminder that not all such adult material bears a sex trafficking relationship. Tumblr’s decsion goes far beyond the legal requirements of the sex trafficking law.


19 posted on 12/10/2018 9:46:56 AM PST by Wuli
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Apparently, Tumblr instituted the porn ban in response to some child porn getting through their filters. Some LGBT activists aren't happy about the porn ban.

LGBT Community Outraged After Tumblr Bans Adult Content

20 posted on 12/11/2018 12:14:56 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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