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Captain Kirk wrote:....unless I hear it's picked up again.
It has. Plenty of porn still being posted.
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I cannot quite fathom what's going on at Tumblr.

Once upon a time they had lots of arty porn photos, all accessible via a nice ARCHIVE option which puts all the pics on one page.
Then they decided to ban all the porn, possibly due to censorship via Apple & Google & a desire to keep their app available.

Now we still have most of the porn, but it's only available via a dashboard & the pics load in a column at the side of my screen.

I would think is should make sense to either ban porn, or not ban it, but the intermediate option makes no sense.
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Totally agree. But even with the new system of a right hand column with "sensitive material" where some porn pics appear, there is a ton of blank uploads headed "This content has been removed for violating Tumblr's Community Guidelines." I also note that many of the pics now being uploaded are only of guys discretely covering themselves.

The ban was introduced because iTunes banned the site due to a preponderance of under-age porn. In the 3 months following the ban last December, even after being restored to iTunes tumblr's traffic dropped almost 30%. It's hard to find more recent comparative figures on the internet. But I do know that a lot of the porn blog sites have totally disappeared from tumblr, including several with what I would term more artistic nude photos which could hardly be termed porn. There was one site named Nishizaki which had beautifully photographed nude models with no hint of pornography. Yet it has disappeared. I did read that some sites had migrated to twitter, but since I do not have a twitter account I have no idea how true this might be.

Verizon purchased Tumblr in 2017. In May it was reported to be trying to sell but having difficulty offloading it. According to wikipedia, Pornhub is trying to purchase it with the aim of restoring the "adult content" sites.
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Thank you 2lz2p
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