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Which is what Oath probably wants.
"fuck oath mate" has never been so true, or so relevant.
Nah it's "fucking oath mate"
Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
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Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
#62Alternative Title: "Tumblr will lose 80% of its visitors come December 18th" Another one: "Tumblr preparing to shut down"
This is exactly correct. Sure there are "clean" portions of Tumblr, but from what I can tell the real purpose is to host adult content. And there's nothing wrong with that! It's a fantastic magnet for eyes, with which to show ads. They're basically killing themselves with this.
Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
#63For folks leaving Tumblr, the Fediverse is a great alternative. You can host your own instance if you want assurance that content will not be banned, or join one of the many existing instances that already exist around Tumblr-like and LGBT-like interests.
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Giving people suggestions based on their profiled interests was a nice toy idea, but it's very dangerous in the real world. I worry about that often with my kid online now.
You need to teach critical thinking skills. Not promote censorship. There's a lot of stupid things in the world you can't censor.
While this is ideal, critical thinking skills take time to develop.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Giving people suggestions based on their profiled interests was a nice toy idea, but it's very dangerous in the real world. I worry about that often with my kid online now.
You need to teach critical thinking skills. Not promote censorship. There's a lot of stupid things in the world you can't censor.
I do not for a second advocate censorship. No content should be barred from uploading, that should be a retroactive process always, otherwise free speech is impossible. Gotta make mistakes to learn from the correction, and that is especially true for young people unfamiliar with the law.
What I am against is machines feeding you more of what you just looked at. That's dangerous. It's too easy to end up VERY deep down dangerous rabbit holes. You should have to use critical thinking to explore your interests, not just get fed whatever will drive engagement.
Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
#66My 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 cant make that free informed choice themselves.
Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
#67My 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…
OK, but a) this is about "adult material" (porn) from what I can see, not other things that one may find disturbing like "thinspo", b) "thinspo" is around in lots of places, not unique to Tumblr
Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
#68there are a lot of jokes being made along the lines of "there goes their userbase" but for me personally this is a huge loss.
especially for those of us who have certain kinks, Tumblr to this day has been the only place to ever exist where women could safely express their sexuality.
it allowed us to meet like-minded people, it allowed us to break the taboo and it ended the isolation that many of us felt.
Tumblrs main asset has always been it's community,and I'm deathly afraid this new policy will take all of this away
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#69"Porn site bans porn"
Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
#70My 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 knew pro-anorexia groups use slang like "your friend Ana" to hide their actions, but had to google "thinspo" and "meanspo".
Thinspo (thin inspiration) is positive anorexia reinforcement, like anorexic role model pictures.
Meanspo (mean inspiration) is negative anorexia reinforcement, like aphorisms demonizing fat or destructive critic.
Why are young girls so vulnerable to mental disease trends? What can we do better as a society to strengthen the resilience of kids?