You see this painting?
Tumbler flagged it as adult content. It's part of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican! Tens of thousands of men, women AND children see it every day...but Tumblr says it's a no-no and won't let you view it. It shows a man's pee-pee.
Then there's this photo. He's wearing as much as you'd see on any high school or college campus across the country...or walking through a park...or at the beach, but it's adult content and flagged, says Tumblr. I've had a dozen on my blog just this innocuous that were handled in the same way.
It seems the puritanical scum at that company are most offended by men being viewed in any way except fully dressed in a business suit. I mean, they flagged one on another site that was of two guys sitting next to each other, fully dressed. No hand-holding, no crotches, even...but one's knee was touching the other one's so it's adult content. Seriously.
That's not an algorithm mixing up men's nipples with women's or seeing a bit of nudity as being hard-core porn. That's a deliberate purge of content that might even begin to be perceived as gay-oriented. It doesn't matter if it's a work of art.
This piece by John Constable -- Academic Study of a Male Nude in the same Pose as a Figure in Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgement’ in the Sistine Chapel, Rome -- was painted in the 1820s and is on view at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire! But Tumblr got all goofy over it. FLAGGED!!!
On December 17th, a mere two weeks after making the announcement of their plan, Tumblr will erase all content it deems Adult Content. They ignored pleas from Tumblr bloggers to rein in the porn-bots taking over the system. They're either too fucking lazy or cheap or ignorant to just put up a wall to keep adult content behind, like Facebook now does and Blogger can do. Hell, even Smashwords and Kobo have walls for adult material, and sell my books from behind them.
But Tumblr's given in to the hateful right wing and is doing the easiest thing it can to make the intolerant happy. It won't work. Others like myself are exploding over this and their stock is dropping like a rock into the ocean. They have probably killed the company...or maybe not. Verizon owns it so they may be happy with this shit.
But it's so fucking stupid and insulting...
It seems the puritanical scum at that company are most offended by men being viewed in any way except fully dressed in a business suit. I mean, they flagged one on another site that was of two guys sitting next to each other, fully dressed. No hand-holding, no crotches, even...but one's knee was touching the other one's so it's adult content. Seriously.
That's not an algorithm mixing up men's nipples with women's or seeing a bit of nudity as being hard-core porn. That's a deliberate purge of content that might even begin to be perceived as gay-oriented. It doesn't matter if it's a work of art.
On December 17th, a mere two weeks after making the announcement of their plan, Tumblr will erase all content it deems Adult Content. They ignored pleas from Tumblr bloggers to rein in the porn-bots taking over the system. They're either too fucking lazy or cheap or ignorant to just put up a wall to keep adult content behind, like Facebook now does and Blogger can do. Hell, even Smashwords and Kobo have walls for adult material, and sell my books from behind them.
But Tumblr's given in to the hateful right wing and is doing the easiest thing it can to make the intolerant happy. It won't work. Others like myself are exploding over this and their stock is dropping like a rock into the ocean. They have probably killed the company...or maybe not. Verizon owns it so they may be happy with this shit.
But it's so fucking stupid and insulting...
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