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

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Post by pdimitar »

porpoisely wrote: post #405
pdimitar wrote: post #9

If Verizon bought Tumblr with the sole purpose of having one more service to serve ads to, and if banning the adult content move aims to please the advertisers then oh boy, are they in for a nasty surprise. Tumblr will become a ghost town in days.

I don't think verizon had any interest in tumblr to begin with. Tumblr was just property that came with their purchase of Yahoo. Also verizon is a $250 billion company. Tumblr and it's potential ad revenue is a rounding error to them. Usually when a large company buys another company with lots of properties, they invest in the ones they like and shut down the ones they don't like and write off the losses. I haven't r…

Fair enough but why don't they just straight shut it down?

I don't understand the need for such PR dances. Nobody believes the carefully crafted copy-paste statement of the CEO anyway.

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

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Post by freehunter »

sparkie wrote: post #375
scelerat wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but /r/politics is pretty much exactly what became of Digg Could you say some more about what you mean by that?

A filtered news feed of the political left. The difference is /r/politics has a whitelist of "acceptable" domains. Essentially anything left of Lenin is OK, and anything else is deemed "far right". The bury brigades still exist in the comments.

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

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Post by AaronM »

sparkie wrote: post #375
scelerat wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but /r/politics is pretty much exactly what became of Digg Could you say some more about what you mean by that?

A filtered news feed of the political left. The difference is /r/politics has a whitelist of "acceptable" domains. Essentially anything left of Lenin is OK, and anything else is deemed "far right". The bury brigades still exist in the comments.

That's not true at all the whitelist allows sites like Breitbart, Dailer Caller, TheBlaze, TheFederalist, and probably a bunch of others that lean heavily to the right.

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

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Post by kijin »

pmiller2 wrote: post #401
nickthegreek wrote: post #15

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Agreed. So many artists, photographers and models used tumblr to showcase their work. It was also easy to link your blog to a .com with little to no webdev experience. The only other social media network out there with a following that allows near the same level of expression is twitter and I have already seen posts from artists directing their followers there. But twitter is no real substitute to what tumblr offered…

DeviantArt is a good alternative.

+1 for DeviantArt. Many artists and models already use it, the community is generally tolerant of unconventional modes of expression, and the platform is designed to be able to handle "explicit" (by U.S. standards) content in a fairly straightforward way.

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

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Post by porpoisely »

pdimitar wrote: post #411
porpoisely wrote: post #405

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think verizon had any interest in tumblr to begin with. Tumblr was just property that came with their purchase of Yahoo. Also verizon is a $250 billion company. Tumblr and it's potential ad revenue is a rounding error to them. Usually when a large company buys another company with lots of properties, they invest in the ones they like and shut down the ones they don't like and write off the losses. I haven't r…

Fair enough but why don't they just straight shut it down? I don't understand the need for such PR dances. Nobody believes the carefully crafted copy-paste statement of the CEO anyway.

There could be a myriad of reasons for slowly shutting down a site. There might be client or advertiser contracts, leasing issues, employment issues and so forth. Of course, customer outrage and mitigation. There might be some value to be extracted from the operation. There may be execs and employees verizon wants to shift over to other divisions and properties over a prolonged stretch of time. They could even be looking for potential buyers to sell the property.

I don't know that is what verizon is doing. It's just an educated guess on my part. As for the specifics, I'm sure the execs looked at all the data and they are doing what they feel is in the best interest of the shareholders.

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

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Post by kijin »

nickthegreek wrote: post #15
pdimitar wrote: post #9

If Verizon bought Tumblr with the sole purpose of having one more service to serve ads to, and if banning the adult content move aims to please the advertisers then oh boy, are they in for a nasty surprise. Tumblr will become a ghost town in days.

Agreed. So many artists, photographers and models used tumblr to showcase their work. It was also easy to link your blog to a .com with little to no webdev experience. The only other social media network out there with a following that allows near the same level of expression is twitter and I have already seen posts from artists directing their followers there. But twitter is no real substitute to what tumblr offered…

There were artists showcasing their work, but there were also a lot of accounts simply distributing someone else's explicit pictures without the copyright holder's permission. They didn't even have their own .com because they obviously benefited from being served under a subdomain of tumblr. I won't miss them at all.

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

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Post by kalleboo »

mikekchar wrote: post #371
jchw wrote: post #293

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Pixiv is also a cool company. I don't want to speak too much for fear of messing up some of their story but they're basically a bit like Japanese deviantArt. They've open sourced some small parts of their code: https://github.com/pixiv As far as content goes, it is constrained by Japanese law, which is mostly more liberal around art with the exception of their oddly specific yet vague censorship requirements.

Complete tangent, but Japan never had any censorship rules before WWII. When the Americans occupied Japan they imposed some laws to help rebuild the country. You can debate whether the laws were good or not. For example, there are many laws around farming geared to ensure that small independent farmers could survive and that Japan would rebuild its food infrastructure (which it kind of abandoned before the war, prefe…

> Japan never had any censorship rules before WWII

This is not true. The obscenity censorship law dates back to 1907, and the enforcement of it for erotic content was also completely detatched from the occupation. https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/4pss4u/why_is_porn_i...

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Post by ryanmarsh »

village-idiot wrote: post #400
ryanmarsh wrote: post #269

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At least 20%. I’m right wing. Lemme tell yah.

I mean this question without any malice or partisanship, because I’m genuinely curious. What’s it feel like to watch those in your political in group seemingly lose their minds? Has it affected your opinions or relationships with fellow conservatives?

No, if anything it's brought us together. What's been hard is losing leftie friends for no reason. I don't talk about politics, but if they find out I went to a Trump rally (instagram pics) suddenly we can't be friends. It's weird. I lived in San Francisco 20 years ago and had rabidly leftie friends whom I very much enjoyed sparring with over drinks, however something has changed and we can't even make small talk anymore. Bizarre.

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

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Post by sparkie »

freehunter wrote: post #412
sparkie wrote: post #375

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A filtered news feed of the political left. The difference is /r/politics has a whitelist of "acceptable" domains. Essentially anything left of Lenin is OK, and anything else is deemed "far right". The bury brigades still exist in the comments.

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Just looked in "new", and every one of those you've listed which are there are downvoted to zero.

Care to prove my point further?

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

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Post by angled »

kijin wrote: post #414
pmiller2 wrote: post #401

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DeviantArt is a good alternative.

+1 for DeviantArt. Many artists and models already use it, the community is generally tolerant of unconventional modes of expression, and the platform is designed to be able to handle "explicit" (by U.S. standards) content in a fairly straightforward way.

I started using tumblr for a photoblog several years ago for the simple fact that it wasn't blocked by the Great Firewall of China. All the FB properties, and most other western platforms, were / are blocked. It meant I could post and view while on either side.

Perhaps Verizon is gearing up to market it there?

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