No but for real there’s shooting yourself in the foot and then there’s aiming a whole fucking bazooka at your legs. I cannot fathom what Tumblr is thinking banning “adult contact” in its entirety. I’m very much not a fan of porn but they even admitted that they’re using bots to decide what is and isn’t “adult content“, and judging by how well those bots have worked in the past (doing things like blocking a video of my cat Sophie for nudity and applying “restricted content“ filters on the most random of posts), this will only guarantee that more completely innocent blogs get nuked, as well as things like art blogs that show little too much anime titty or fanfiction that mentions the sex. Even Christian sex info blogs like @holy-sexuality could be in danger. This is the implosion of the website as we know it. Tumblr will be as obsolete as Myspace and as deleted as Vine in the next six months.
Oh. Well. I did approve of this solely on the assumption that humans would be a part of the process. Seeing as the Supreme Court long ago realized you couldn’t have an algorithm for this particular thing. Never mind and scratch everything.
Here’s the quote if anyone missed it:
“Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.”
fair--y backup 