glompcat:

solacekames:

kant:

jokes aside, on a completely serious note, regardless of how tumblr justifies the decision regarding the ban, the value of porn on this shithole website is incomparable to the safety of the children exposed already 

I don’t even look at porn on Tumblr or care about it, but the new rules are emphatically not going to help any children. I don’t see anything in the new rules that would do a thing about text comments redirecting to pedo stuff. Instead, the new rules confirm that Tumblr is not going to hire moderators, they’re just going to implement a cheaper algorithm-based system, which will, of course, eventually be gamed by faster-evolving porn spambots. 

Here’s a public health analogy: let’s say you’re facing a massive bacterial outbreak, except you’re too greedy to pay for real medical care, so you just dramatically spray your target population with cheap antibiotic disinfectant and tell them you care about them so much, everything you do is out of love, etc. Then, over a period of time, the cheap disinfectant kills the weaker germs, encourages the stronger ones to breed and all of a sudden everyone starts coming down with MRSA.  

#and then on top of that there’s the fact that tumblr’s algorithm is garbage#and often flags the most random shit#also also they’ve more than once had issues#with flagging LGBT+ tags as NSFW#this isn’t a useful solution#and opens the door to other and bigger problems (tags via @moodybidoof)