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The problem is, their solution just destroyed whoever used nude art or in general their bodies as a mean of expressing themselves while doing nothing to abusers
by yulaow 8y ago
The problem is, their solution just destroyed whoever used nude art or in general their bodies as a mean of expressing themselves while doing nothing to abusers (especially pornbots are still active just as before)
- DanBC 8y agoSure, but they're not responding because they're puritan idiots, they're responding because not doing so risks their business. Specifically, they risked being added to European block lists in use by almost all EU ISPs. Of course there are ways around this, but no business wants to tell its users to install Tor Browser Bundle to visit a website.
- yulaow 8y agoI understand this, what I am saying is that their current solution is totally ineffective and just PR, and if someone is gonna check the actual situation all the reasons that could put tumblr in the European block list are still there.
- pmlnr 8y ago> not doing so risks their business The response should have been better filters for illegal content, not cutting off "adult" content. (" because in my opinion, there's nothing adulty in a fantasy artwork from the 70s which, the horror, shows both male and female uncovered breasts.)
- fulafel 8y agoDo you have a reference for this block list rumor? Sounds worrying.
- pjc50 8y agoMost ISPs use the "Internet Watch Foundation" blacklist. I'm not convinced that there was any real risk of Tumblr being added to it en masse. (I believe there was an incident a few years ago where an image of an Iron Maiden album cover on wikipedia got flagged, though)
- fulafel 8y agoI would very be surprised if most eu isps used a secret blacklist (contents not publushed) maintained abroad and legit communities/platforms like tumblr could just be banned out of the blue. Would it even be legal?
- msla 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_... NOTE: The image is on the article above the fold. > On 5 December 2008, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a British watchdog group, blacklisted content on the English Wikipedia related to Scorpions' 1976 studio album Virgin Killer, due to the presence of its controversial cover artwork, depicting a young girl posing nude, with a faux glass shatter obscuring her genitalia. The image was deemed to be "potentially illegal content" under English law which forbids the possession or creation of indecent photographs of children. The IWF's blacklist are used in web filtering systems such as Cleanfeed. You can see from my note how much long-term effect this had on Wikipedia.
- DanBC 8y agoThe block on that page was for four days. Of course that had no impact on WP.
- chmod775 8y ago> Most ISPs use the "Internet Watch Foundation" blacklist. You mean: "Most ISPs in the UK". That is very different from "most ISPs in Europe" or "most ISPs".