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Sex censorship killed the internet we love

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Re: Sex censorship killed the internet we love

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Post by trhway »

>Now Tumblr is a sex-free haven for white nationalists and Nazis.

reminded Matt Damon's character from Dogma :

Loki : ... If I had a dick, I'd go get laid. We can do the next best thing.

Bartleby : What's that?

Loki : Well, let's kill people.

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Post by lazyjones »

YMMV... For me, the last straw was having to click away 2-3 banners that cover the content on every website and then often being slapped in the face with a subscription box. This is simply conditioning me to expect disappointment and hence to stop clicking on links. Even on HN I find myself clicking straight on the comment links to get an idea of what the link is about.

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Post by iamdave »

trhway wrote: post #2

>Now Tumblr is a sex-free haven for white nationalists and Nazis. reminded Matt Damon's character from Dogma : Loki : ... If I had a dick, I'd go get laid. We can do the next best thing. Bartleby : What's that? Loki : Well, let's kill people.

Now Tumblr is a sex-free haven for white nationalists and Nazis.

Is the author basing this on anything other than checking to see if white nationalists and Nazis are simply using the site as some sort of electronic forward operating base such that it's worth calling Tumblr a "haven" for these groups?

Asked a better way: if you go looking for group x on just about any website, isn't it fair to say you're probably going to find some? Is Tumblr really a haven for these people?

I ask as someone who without really trying, just managed to curate his tumblr "feed" to be full of classic cars, aviation, scifi and comic book stuff plus sometimes video game review, so I admit to being a bit ignorant as to what's going on outside my particular 'bubble' and will concede that I do lack some perspective on the matter.

Re: Sex censorship killed the internet we love

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Post by nopriorarrests »

Whats the point of this article?

Tumblr is supposed to be monetized. You can't monetize porn content, so tumblr has 'no pron' policy now. Sorry, this is how the world works. Boo.

Meanwhile, any kind of porn is plentiful if you go to the different url. Enter any keyword and have porn catered to your interest, in a good quality, abundant. Seriously, this was unimaginable 15 years ago, and yet author claims that someone "killed the internet we love". Come on.

Maybe the right claim would be "For some unknown reason, VC does not fund unprofitable sites we love anymore".

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Post by foolfoolz »

This doesnt make sense to me. Core internet community experiences to me have always been about smaller sites, message boards, mailing lists, chatrooms, voice chat groups, etc.

Seeing large corporation websites like tumblr, reddit, facebook crack down on content doesn't stop any of that. it just means you need to get out of your internet bubble.

Re: Sex censorship killed the internet we love

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Post by unimpressive »

lazyjones wrote: post #3

YMMV... For me, the last straw was having to click away 2-3 banners that cover the content on every website and then often being slapped in the face with a subscription box. This is simply conditioning me to expect disappointment and hence to stop clicking on links. Even on HN I find myself clicking straight on the comment links to get an idea of what the link is about.

My friend wrote a browser plugin that removes sticky web elements like subscription boxes on pages (Chrome only, for now).

https://git.sr.ht/~achmizs/AlwaysKillSticky.git

Sad that we have to resort to this sort of thing, but...

p.s: He would probably be happy to accept a patch which makes it compatible with Firefox.

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Post by stevenicr »

foolfoolz wrote: post #7

This doesnt make sense to me. Core internet community experiences to me have always been about smaller sites, message boards, mailing lists, chatrooms, voice chat groups, etc. Seeing large corporation websites like tumblr, reddit, facebook crack down on content doesn't stop any of that. it just means you need to get out of your internet bubble.

There are some portals listed on this similar recent hn thread, in which I added to a similar comment, ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19040384 ) - basically that for many people the internet is google, and for many, especially in other countries from what I have read, 'the internet' is facebook.

It appears many people do not know how to use urls or ask people about other portals.

If facebook censors it, they may never know it every existed on the internet. For others if Google doesn't show it on the first page of results - it does not exist.

I should of seen this coming years ago I noticed when I would tell people to go to whatever-site-url.com - they would open a browser and put that into the search box.

Heck people put google.com into the box and search for it rather then enter a url and hit ctrl-enter.

Now many phones and tablets are also defaulting search boxes, browsers, and voice searches to be using these censoring services - not showing ways to escape these bubbles, solidifying the walls of the garden.

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