<story><title>Tumblr responds to complaints about censorship</title><url>http://staff.tumblr.com/post/55906556378/all-weve-heard-from-a-bunch-of-you-who-are</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>epochwolf</author><text>So... this doesn&amp;#x27;t really seem to add anything. They admit to having a  Adult flag which removes the blog from all site listings and from google searches. This effectively kills the blog. What they don&amp;#x27;t deny is recently and massively increasing the scope of the flagging. This is what people are worried about. People are claiming non-spam nsfw blogs are being flagged. Blogs that wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been banned before.&lt;p&gt;Blocking tags on the mobile app is a separate issue, they don&amp;#x27;t really have a choice here. Apple will pull their app if they don&amp;#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpicard</author><text>The article says that being blocked from searches and search engines was a bug:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; As some of you have pointed out, disabling Safe Mode still wasn’t allowing search results from all blogs to appear. This has been fixed.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; If your blog contains anything too sexy for the average workplace, simply check &amp;quot;Flag this blog as NSFW&amp;quot; so people in Safe Mode can avoid it. Your blog will still be promoted in third-party search engines.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tumblr responds to complaints about censorship</title><url>http://staff.tumblr.com/post/55906556378/all-weve-heard-from-a-bunch-of-you-who-are</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>epochwolf</author><text>So... this doesn&amp;#x27;t really seem to add anything. They admit to having a  Adult flag which removes the blog from all site listings and from google searches. This effectively kills the blog. What they don&amp;#x27;t deny is recently and massively increasing the scope of the flagging. This is what people are worried about. People are claiming non-spam nsfw blogs are being flagged. Blogs that wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been banned before.&lt;p&gt;Blocking tags on the mobile app is a separate issue, they don&amp;#x27;t really have a choice here. Apple will pull their app if they don&amp;#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidu</author><text>Searching for NSFW tags is working fine now on the web app.  It wasn&amp;#x27;t this morning.  That was the bug they fixed.</text></comment>