Tumblr's Porn Ban Reveals Who Controls What We See Online
Tumblr's Porn Ban Reveals Who Controls What We See Online
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 5, 201811m 37s
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Show Notes
Tumblr was never explicitly a space for porn, but, like most things on the internet, it is chock full of it anyway. Or at least it was. On Monday, to the shock of the millions of users who had used the microblogging site to consume and share porn GIFs, images, and videos, Tumblr banned the “adult content” that its CEO David Karp had defended five years prior.
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