![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, unlawful material was known to persist in Tumblr’s darkest corners for days or weeks, when similar content is removed from other platforms within minutes or hours. Unlike Twitter for example, which integrates a reporting form into every post (as shown here), Tumblr expects its users to know that they have to access a separate page on its website, copy and paste the URL of the post that they wish to report, and… well to be honest, most users won’t even get that far. This is one area in which Tumblr falls down. Therefore, we have recommended making it easier for them to report offending content, rather than merely blocking it. In fact we have recently expressed concerns about the effectiveness of new experimental systems from Facebook and Google that do claim to be able to make this determination algorithmically.Īlthough technology continues to advance, the current best technical state of the art in weeding out unlawful images of minors that haven’t been observed before remains the human eye, and the best way of making sure that such images are removed quickly is by enlisting the help of the site’s users. Although it’s a fact not often spoken, this is the most common category of unlawful images of minors, both on and off Tumblr.Īs Tumblr well knows, the shared industry database that it blamed for its problems wasn’t ever intended to catch such images that are being newly uploaded by users, and that haven’t already been reviewed by a human being and determined to be unlawful. We called Tumblr out for that statement because much of its problem with unlawful images came about from its youngest users posting naked images of themselves. ![]() In its reaction to the App Store ban, Tumblr blamed a shared industry shared child pornography database for its failure to eliminate images from its website. For many, it was something of a microcosm of the Internet itself. But it was also a place for creativity, friendship, and learning for its users. For years, its own users had called Tumblr a “hellsite” due to its problems such as bullying, extremism, sexual grooming of minors, and the exchange of child pornography-or, to use a better term, unlawful images of minors. Tumblr’s removal from the App Store did not come without warning. Tumblr knew about its child sexual abuse problem A ban on all nudity and sexual content was its easiest path forward to having the app restored-though certainly not the best path forward, given the ban’s impacts on those using the site to post lawful adult content. After all, Tumblr’s removal from the Apple App Store due to its failure to control child pornography on its platform had been reported a mere two weeks earlier. In a blog post yesterday in which Tumblr announced that it would ban adult content from the site come December 17, it took pains to point out “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.”īut Tumblr’s attempt to distance its new adult content ban from its fight against child pornography only goes to underscore how closely the two are actually linked. ![]()
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