tumblr A year after banning "female-presenting nipples", Tumblr is much-diminished but still alive Rob Beschizza
this decision cannot be appealed Announcement of Tumblr's sale to WordPress classified as pornography by Tumblr's notorious "adult content" filter Cory Doctorow
christchurch call TOSsed out: EFF catalogs the perverse ways that platform moderation policies hurt the people they're supposed to protect Cory Doctorow
seriously fuck them Before Tumblr switched off access to NSFW blogs, it blocked archivists who were trying to preserve them Cory Doctorow
female-presenting nipples Tumblr's porn filter blocked Tumblr's images illustrating what Tumblr's porn filter won't block Cory Doctorow
dreamwidth Every NSFWpocalypse sends users to small, indie platforms, who are threatened by the same factors that make no-platforming practical Cory Doctorow
Crap Hound Liartown, USA leaves Tumblr over NSFW-ban; announces new 544-page Crap Hound book "devoted to images notable for their lack of positivity" Cory Doctorow
Sean Tejaratchi Liartown: the First Four Years, a tour-de-force of killer shooping and acerbic wit Cory Doctorow
beep beep #neo-nazis are here "Friendly" apps are good at maximizing engagement, but their context-blindness is a cesspit of algorithmic cruelty Cory Doctorow
defederation Verizon bought Yahoo, so Flickr and Tumblr users with AT&T email addresses are being cut off Cory Doctorow
fatally compromised Tumblr is now owned by a phone company, so it's stopped fighting for Network Neutrality Cory Doctorow
#GlasamProtiv Macedonian designers make posters against dictatorship and for free and fair elections on Dec 11 Cory Doctorow