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Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by vanadium »

trhway wrote: post #66
bvinc wrote: post #21

My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. She was in this gigantic web of pro-ana tumblrs with crazy diet plans that tell you to eat like 100 calories a day. Then the app would just keep suggesting more, "skin and bones", "thinspo", "meanspo". Holy crap there are some scary corners of Tumblr. I of course am more mindful of what she looks at, but she was hiding it and I can't monitor e…

>My daughter at 12 i think websites/pages, like for example movies, should have age restriction in their metadata. >love of free speech as we know children arent capable to give an informed consent and thus free speech (the same way like any issue requiring informed consent like freedom of entering into contract for example or submitting to medical procedure) just isnt applicable when it comes to children as they can…

> i think websites/pages, like for example movies, should have age restriction in their metadata.

A few friends and I had an idea for voluntary rating back in '97, not long after the CDA of 1996 ("Black Ribbon") debacle.

To be fair, while when we envisioned it, it was something more facetious to get a laugh, but thinking retrospectively about it 21 years later actually made (and still makes) a hell of a lot of sense (now) as the father of a young boy.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by jhcl »

American indecency running wild again. When does that bunch of religious extremists make a difference between social unacceptable behavior and physical lust.

Go ahead with your KKK, QAnon and anti-feminist meetings but keep your tighty-whities on to avoid shocking people. What a sick bunch of religious extremists.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by sdegutis »

dvtrn wrote: post #47
bvinc wrote: post #21

My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. She was in this gigantic web of pro-ana tumblrs with crazy diet plans that tell you to eat like 100 calories a day. Then the app would just keep suggesting more, "skin and bones", "thinspo", "meanspo". Holy crap there are some scary corners of Tumblr. I of course am more mindful of what she looks at, but she was hiding it and I can't monitor e…

My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. I'm really sorry to hear this, having gone through a similar thing with a now ex-significant other. She too became very active in the segments of tumblr you identified and others (showed me many of them, some seemed like teenage angst in blog form, others were far more...worrisome), developed an eating disorder along with severe anxiety issues…

Online groups can and do influence people's thoughts and beliefs over time. Just my own anecdotes, but I've seen people completely turn against those in their lives who were obviously well meaning and supportive, because of baseless anger and fears which seem to have come from nowhere. And then it comes out that they were actively reading online groups that encouraged and normalized these anxieties and rage, condemning those who common sense and anyone else can plainly see are active forces of good in a person's life.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by em3rgent0rdr »

bvinc wrote: post #21

My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. She was in this gigantic web of pro-ana tumblrs with crazy diet plans that tell you to eat like 100 calories a day. Then the app would just keep suggesting more, "skin and bones", "thinspo", "meanspo". Holy crap there are some scary corners of Tumblr. I of course am more mindful of what she looks at, but she was hiding it and I can't monitor e…

What about safety filters or parental controls?

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Post by computer96 »

ourcat wrote: post #79
istorical wrote: post #35

I have been archiving many of my favorite tumblr's for some time now, but will have to go in and refresh my downloads. Highly recommend this app called TumblThree for archiving (also TumblTwo) https://www.jzab.de/content/tumblthree The UI is a little annoying and takes a little discovery to figure out, but the actual setup / install is painless. Edit: after reading more about the shutdown, it appears Tumblr may have…

There are also many scripts out there in many languages on Github to 'archive' tumblrs. YMMV. ;)

This is a good Python script for backing up Tumblr blogs or likes: https://github.com/bbolli/tumblr-utils/blob/master/tumblr_ba...

There's also this Windows app for backing up your liked posts: https://github.com/neuro-sys/tumblr-likes-downloader which makes you create an "app" to log in to your account, so it can download posts that require logging in to view.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by jstanley »

trhway wrote: post #175
jstanley wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> free speech just isnt applicable when it comes to children Are you arguing that free speech must be abandoned, just in case children happen to be listening?

That isnt what I said. What I said is that children mustn't be allowed to some audiences the same way they aren't allowed in bars, porn movies or making legally binding decisions in corporate boardrooms.

> What I said is [...]

You actually didn't say that, you just said free speech isn't applicable when it comes to children, and left us guessing about how you might want that to be implemented :).

I'm glad you're not advocating for the end of free speech, however.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by Groxx »

phreack wrote: post #72

Surprisingly, the thing I'd been using it most for, was that it's the only major social media website I know that still shows posts in chronological order.

The app is rather insistent about showing me the same post 20x while hiding new things though :\

I'm very sad to see chronological continuing to disappear.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by Dylan16807 »

basic1 wrote: post #59
crankylinuxuser wrote: post #34

I figured the writing was on the wall with that whole garbage static page, along with "Disabled due to safe-mode". Of course, you had to have an account and all its bullshit to 'turn off' safe mode. Whereas, reddit, imgur, pornhub, and all of them have no safe-mode garbage. Reddit has a click-thru if you hit a sub on a work machine (and then you can bail out). But yeah, this is setting a "dead by" date probably 6 mon…

I still haven't figured out how this works, Tumblr smashes the page to 1/3 the screen and displays stuff I don't care about in the center 2/3.

That's a different terribly designed setting. Safe mode is mostly 'just' forcing a login.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by GreeniFi »

bvinc wrote: post #21

My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. She was in this gigantic web of pro-ana tumblrs with crazy diet plans that tell you to eat like 100 calories a day. Then the app would just keep suggesting more, "skin and bones", "thinspo", "meanspo". Holy crap there are some scary corners of Tumblr. I of course am more mindful of what she looks at, but she was hiding it and I can't monitor e…

I’m really sorry to hear this story. It makes me feel pretty sad, and worried as a recent parent. I think I have a preference for free speech, but stories like this really make me wonder where the boundaries are. Communities are bound together by common stories. If we cannot control the stories members listen to, the community ceases to function. And I’m starting to wonder whether we are beginning to see this failure writ large around the world right now.
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