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The issue they are going to run into is that they are automatically going to be labeled a porn site. As such they will automatically lose the top tier of advert
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y ago
The issue they are going to run into is that they are automatically going to be labeled a porn site. As such they will automatically lose the top tier of advertisers and payment processors. In addition, because they are new and probably won’t have the filtering systems in place, very offensive content including cp will likely get posted. This will further make them a pariah to the main stream internet with app stores and internet infrastructure players not wanting to do business with them. For example see the example of Apple banning the Tumblr app. And that was with a well established service. With this new NSFW service it won’t even be a close call.
- makomk 8y agoTumblr was pretty terrible at handling CP reports. Like, I reported someone who posted sexually explicit photos supposedly of themself whilst admitting they were underage, and it took two months for Tumblr to send a form message saying they were looking into it and might or might not do something.
- mindslight 8y agoThis is not going to be a popular comment, but it seems like the main problems in that situation are poor parenting and the harsh criminalization of willful adolescent behavior as "child" "pornography".
- mikekchar 8y agoEither way, it would be a nice feature for an image service to help protect children who might fall into this crack. I think it's one of those things where legally you probably want to run a service like this as a carrier so that you don't get yourself in trouble by making mistakes. But as company that tries to be a good citizen in a society, I think you want to make it as difficult as possible for children to post NSFW images of themselves. I don't necessarily think of Verizon as a good corporate citizen most of the time, but I think it's completely reasonable for people in society to ask them to do so.
- Animats 8y agoThat seems to be what's happening - a hard division between no-sex sites and porn sites, with nothing in between. Apple and Google seem to be driving this, with their no-sex policies. Verizon, having acquired Tumblr, had a problem. Their own "Verizon Smart Family"[1] censoring system would now be blocking their own site. [1] https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/verizon-smart-family/ https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/verizon-smart-family...
- lostmyoldone 8y agoWhat if companies that want to expand globally actually want to be forbidden to show any 'objectionable' content. They don't really want to do it themselves, so they work to get it mandated? Seems like it could increase the barrier of entry significantly while simultaneously giving access to new, less saturated markets? Sounds like crazy talk, but why has porn suddenly become such a big deal? Even before internet, porn has been readily accessible for decades, so why does it suddenly become a problem big enough that companies seems willing to loose their entire business to filter out a specific class of content? The only reasonable explanation is that they are seizing the opportunity, one possibly created on purpose, to enact realignment to new markets without getting all the flak themselves.
- oddevan 8y agoTumblr's been on the App Store for ages. I think the recent de-listing was about child exploitation, not general porn.
- theshrike79 8y agoApple didn't ban Tumblr for NSFW content, they dropped it from the store because they couldn't keep CP from showing up in the app.