In The Wake Of Tumblr ‘Adult Content’ Ban, I Miss The Fat Naked Bodies
By Lindsey Weedston
“Look, these bodies exist too and they’re beautiful.”
It’s been just over two months now since the “adult content” ban went into effect on Tumblr, but a handful of key things have not changed.
On December 17, 2018, Tumblr officially outlawed all content considered to be pornography in order to comply with the SESTA/FOSTA laws — laws that are allegedly supposed to combat human trafficking, but instead just make life exponentially more difficult and dangerous for sex workers.
According to a former employee, Tumblr’s new policy was influenced by the fact it had such a massive child pornography problem that Apple removed the Tumblr app from its stores, but the machinations were were already in motion months earlier due to the fact that Verizon — the parent company that owns Tumblr — couldn’t sell ads next to all that porn.
The first thing that any Tumblr user will tell you about the result of this ban is either that there are just as many porn bots on the social media platform as ever or that there are just as many Nazis. All the porn bot creators had to do was change the language their bots used and/or tag posts with “sfw” (safe for work) to avoid the wrath of the wildly…
