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A better, more positive Tumblr
Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.
Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).
Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.
So what is changing?
Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.
Why are we doing this?
It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.
Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.
So what’s next?
Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.
Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.
Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.
Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.
Jeff D’Onofrio CEO
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After the release of Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds will always sound like Deadpool doing a Ryan Reynolds impression.
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Had Alaska been the 47th state to join the union it’s residents would hear no end of AK-47 jokes
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If more people understood that opinions are opinions and not facts, a lot less people would hate each other.
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Say what you will about Undertale, but “I can’t go to hell. I’m all out of vacation days” is a powerful statement to say to a child holding you at knifepoint.
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In the Disney movie Cars humans would be considered a parasite that invades cars and takes control of the cars nervous system
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some memes I made to express my current frustrations with academia feel free to add your own
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Society says: If a girl just wants to go back to being friends, it's understandable, you two just weren't right for each other, and it's chill. If a guy wants to go back to being friends, he's an insensitive prick who never truly cared about the girl and deserves to burn in hell.
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As a kid, you are bullied by people who don’t like you, and your friends are nice. Once you’re older, you’re bullied by your friends, and people who don’t like you are nice
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Infographic: 7 Reasons This Is An Excellent Resume For Someone With No Experience
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“At your absolute best, you still won’t be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you’ll still be worth it to the right person.”
— Karen Salmansohn
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I mean, point? Men can do shit. Women can do shit. Kk? Move on, people. Do something useful with your lives instead of stating the obvious.
Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.
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“But Obama did a bad thing too!”
Agreed.
Now that I’ve acknowledged that, can we please stop the bad thing currently happening that doesn’t require a time machine to fix?
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Mars has water on it because we used to live there and fucked up the climate so badly that we had to send an escape pod to earth with only Adam and Eve in it.
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Punishing the whole class for the actions of one child teaches the kid the most valuable lesson: No matter how good you behave, someone else is always going to pull you down
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And then teams were formed and it was WWIII
The first week of Pokémon Go was probably the closest thing we’ll get to world peace
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