<story><title>Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/dear-tumblr-banning-adult-content-wont-make-your-site-better-it-will-harm-sex</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahart</author><text>Yes, the exact guidelines are going to be vague, that’s a &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; thing. It might just show they understand that it should be okay to allow art and breastfeeding and other forms of nudity that aren’t explicitly pornographic.&lt;p&gt;I feel like this article isn’t making good faith arguments. Every single sentence is trying to tear down Tumblr’s announcement word by word without attempting to understand their position, making the worst case assumption about their intent rather than assuming reason, and Tumblr’s position seems to be completely reasonable. Tumblr isn’t for porn anymore, just like most other web sites on the planet.&lt;p&gt;Plus, if they lost a spot on the Apple App Store due to porn, then the title isn’t true, removing the porn and getting back on the App Store will definitely make their situation better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>&amp;quot;I feel like this article isn’t making good faith arguments.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The EFF is an advocacy organization. It definitely &amp;quot;advocates&amp;quot;, and does not generally make &amp;quot;rational&amp;quot; arguments. If you always like everything they do, you may have a hard time seeing this, but if you&amp;#x27;ve ever seen them speak about something you are either ambivalent about (probably a lot of people on this matter today) or even outright disagree with them on (as I have), it becomes clear.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not particularly trying to be critical of them here. They advocate; it&amp;#x27;s what they say they do, it&amp;#x27;s what they are set up to do, and they&amp;#x27;re generally in a space that nobody else is even close to advocating for. But I do think it&amp;#x27;s important to understand them for what they are.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/dear-tumblr-banning-adult-content-wont-make-your-site-better-it-will-harm-sex</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahart</author><text>Yes, the exact guidelines are going to be vague, that’s a &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; thing. It might just show they understand that it should be okay to allow art and breastfeeding and other forms of nudity that aren’t explicitly pornographic.&lt;p&gt;I feel like this article isn’t making good faith arguments. Every single sentence is trying to tear down Tumblr’s announcement word by word without attempting to understand their position, making the worst case assumption about their intent rather than assuming reason, and Tumblr’s position seems to be completely reasonable. Tumblr isn’t for porn anymore, just like most other web sites on the planet.&lt;p&gt;Plus, if they lost a spot on the Apple App Store due to porn, then the title isn’t true, removing the porn and getting back on the App Store will definitely make their situation better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freeone3000</author><text>Pornography is not just removed from the app, but also the website. Previously, apple users could browse to the website. Now, they no longer have this option. This is worse.&lt;p&gt;Also, the burn-down-the-world response to child pornography by removing every single female-presenting nipple is such an overwhelming response it&amp;#x27;s hard to believe this is appropriate. Even assuming they could do it correctly - their current implementation flags pictures of chrysanthemums as lewd content.</text></comment>