It's bizarre that it's legal for me to look at pictures of a naked person, but effectively illegal to use technology to do so, just because advertising is subject to the whims of a moralistic and prejudicial minority.
Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr
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#12I think the only problem with this, is that there is still a solid 35% of the user base that doesn't want porn. So, there is a very fine line.
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#13Why don't they just have their engineers create their own Tumblr clone? Tumblhub or Tumhub or Pornblr. It would probably be cheaper than buying Tumblr.
I might get downvoted for this, but...I can't believe you didn't think of the name "Cumblr"
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#14Genius.
They simply saw their stats drop; did some math, and drew conclusions. :)
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#15Why don't they just have their engineers create their own Tumblr clone? Tumblhub or Tumhub or Pornblr. It would probably be cheaper than buying Tumblr.
I might get downvoted for this, but...I can't believe you didn't think of the name "Cumblr"
-spits out energy drink all over my keyboard-
....Thanks for that.. LOL
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#16I think the only problem with this, is that there is still a solid 35% of the user base that doesn't want porn. So, there is a very fine line.
But what percentage of traffic do they generate?
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#17It'd be interesting to see if Verizon will take their money. I could see a lot of their executives being squeamish about it.
Has Verizon ever been squeamish about taking money before? As far as I can tell, they exist to make money for their investors. If selling to PornHub removes the debt off their books I can't see what possible blow back the company would suffer.
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#18I remember one of my teachers in grade school speaking out against the Moral Majority and other pro-censorship types in the 80's. The quote she was up in arms about was something along the lines of how, "We must constrain the imaginations of our children."
Today's problems have nothing to do with people reading, imagining, creating, and thinking. Problems in 2019 have to do with people engaging specifically in groupthink and "othering."
Censorship, exclusion, and suppression do not reduce groupthink. Rather, those actions increase groupthink. Those actions create hothouses of concentrated groupthink insulated from criticism, skepticism, and the moderation of reality. (Also, if some honest introspection is done, one often finds that those actions are themselves motivated by groupthink.)
A live and let-live society where people are free to self-express lets people learn in the context of a reality more complicated and richer than just themselves. A live and let-live society lets people transcend their own small circle. It is the best antidote to the small minded groupthink that creates oversimplified, dehumanizing caricatures of people and reality.
It's suppression and censorship that causes people to retreat into such small circles, allowing groupthink to fester.
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#19Why don't they just have their engineers create their own Tumblr clone? Tumblhub or Tumhub or Pornblr. It would probably be cheaper than buying Tumblr.
I might get downvoted for this, but...I can't believe you didn't think of the name "Cumblr"
someone is already on top of that: https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results.aspx?...
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#20I think the only problem with this, is that there is still a solid 35% of the user base that doesn't want porn. So, there is a very fine line.
Yeah I wonder if there is a big difference from "yeah there's a lot of porn here" to "yeah it's a porn site now" as far as the users who aren't doing that thing goes.
There's a lot of porn on reddit, but I don't think twice about saying I post there. But if it was owned by a porn site I might think twice about how I define the site / mention it.