Over the past year, adult stuff has been disappearing. Craigslist got rid of personals after a new bill went into effect with the efforts to stop sex trafficking. Tumblr has decided to put an effort to curb adult content and in the last two weeks, it's been met with negative results. Let's just say with no pun intended, people are upset about it and are looking to other sites, even though it's not entirely an adult site.
Unless I'm mistaken, this is Tumblr themselves doing this. There are sites that have their more innocent stuff. Innocent enough where it isn't explicit. Then there is the adult sections, which give warnings that it's very adult. Pornography is one of those things that has been combated over the years. It's typically frowned upon and certain materials is a huge no that leads to suspects getting arrested. What I see Tumblr doing is trying to not get rid of all their adult stuff, but have a warning on what can and can't be posted on their website.
I don't venture into Tumblr much, so I can't form an opinion. The Verge actually has a good article on this and it seems like they are struggling for now until they figure it all out. This stuff takes time. What will truly matter is the numbers of people going to the site after they have their censorship finished. Now these days, the effort to combat sex rings and trafficking is increasing. And I hope people understand that.
When it's all said and done, Tumblr will still be around and the complaints are not going to be as big when they have control of how they censor.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/17/18141106/tumblr-porn-ban-adult-content-appeal
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