<story><title>Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/verizon-reportedly-seeking-to-sell-tumblr/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j9461701</author><text>The same thing happened with live journal. Executives massively over-react to the terror of possibly hosting child pornography, and therefore decided &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; pornography - or even anything mildly erotic -  had to be ejected. And, like what happened with live journal, the site never recovered.&lt;p&gt;As a sex positive liberal, I admit a certain level of schadenfreude at seeing tumblr&amp;#x27;s decision bite them in the butt. Using child porn as a pretext to justify a puritanical purge of all erotic content is absolutely obnoxious IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mamot.fr&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;media_attachments&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;001&amp;#x2F;582&amp;#x2F;923&amp;#x2F;original&amp;#x2F;e2136d6b4d317af6.jpeg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mamot.fr&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;media_attachments&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;001&amp;#x2F;582&amp;#x2F;923&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Classic comic from years ago</text></comment>
<story><title>Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/verizon-reportedly-seeking-to-sell-tumblr/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j9461701</author><text>The same thing happened with live journal. Executives massively over-react to the terror of possibly hosting child pornography, and therefore decided &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; pornography - or even anything mildly erotic -  had to be ejected. And, like what happened with live journal, the site never recovered.&lt;p&gt;As a sex positive liberal, I admit a certain level of schadenfreude at seeing tumblr&amp;#x27;s decision bite them in the butt. Using child porn as a pretext to justify a puritanical purge of all erotic content is absolutely obnoxious IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zimpenfish</author><text>&amp;gt; Using child porn as a pretext to justify a puritanical purge of all erotic content is absolutely obnoxious IMO.&lt;p&gt;And not what Tumblr did - their erotic content ban was under way before the CP snafu got them temporarily kicked out of the iOS App Store. Consensus is that it saves them from SESTA-FOSTA legal troubles.</text></comment>