>While porn creators belonged to tightly connected subgroups, they were linked to the rest of Tumblr’s network “with a very high number of ties,” and their prod

>While porn creators belonged to tightly connected subgroups, they were linked to the rest of Tumblr’s network “with a very high number of ties,” and their productions “spread widely across the whole social graph.” In other words, they weren’t quarantined off in some illicit corner of the site—they were woven into its basic fabric: The average Tumblr user in the sample followed 51 blogs, two or three of which tended to be specifically porn, and another two of which tended to be “bridge” blogs, run by users who were particularly likely to reblog porn. Pron not seen as an "other" in a medium that didn't go out of it's way to make it othered? This is exactly the kind of insight that only takes a study when a society is simultaneously marinated in censorship and unwilling to admit any instance of it deserves the label "censorship." It's not like censorship is anything new, or that the mechanisms and ramifications are poorly understood.