“We’re all like, ‘Oh, we really need to make a plan right now.’” 
 
 The new policy was announced two weeks after Tumblr was removed from the iOS App Store over allegations of hosting child pornography. Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. While it makes a certain degree of sense that these first pivots might be a little bumpier than people would like, it’s also very concerning considering that there’s no way to tell whether Tumblr’s actually going to get better about enforcing its policies in ways that don’t end up hurting users. While much of what lives on Tumblr might be considered “just pornography,” there’s also a sizable community of people for whom Tumblr and all of its explicitness was a kind of haven for the imagination where concepts and ships that wouldn’t likely ever make it to the big or small screen could thrive. In a public statement regarding the upcoming changes, Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio explained that going forward, the site will use programs taught by humans to identify and flag content featuring explicit content and subsequently shutter any sites where such context exists: 
 
 Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. The adult content ban, he wrote in a blog post, was about making Tumblr a “safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community.” 
 
 “Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content,” D'Onofrio wrote. “We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.” 
 
 But Laura Dilley, executive director of the sex-worker advocacy group PACE Society, said the number of welcoming environments for her constituency is dwindling.
– Tumblr made a big move Monday, one that the Verge says will "fundamentally alter how the service is used." In short: no more porn. CEO Jeff D'Onofrio explained in a blog post that the site will no longer allow adult content or even nudity, the latter with limited exceptions such as breastfeeding images. The move comes less than a month after Apple booted Tumblr from its App Store because an audit turned up child pornography, though Tumblr says the issue goes beyond that. As the Daily Beast reports, porn stars, "cam girls," and others in the sex trade have long used the platform for publicity, and now they're worried. "It was pretty much panic from all of us," a 28-year-old sex worker tells the website. "[We're] talking about if we're going to be able to keep our blogs or if we're going to have to just abandon Tumblr and work on different platforms." The changes are effective Dec. 17, and Tumblr's new "community guidelines" section spells them out: "Don't upload images, videos, or GIFs that show real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples." Depictions of sex acts are barred, though written erotica is still permitted. If you're wondering about a certain phrase above, you're not alone. "What the hell are 'female-presenting nipples'?" wonders Jezebel blogger Harron Walker, who has reached out to Tumblr for clarification and is posting best guesses in the meantime. At Gizmodo, meanwhile, Charles Pulliam-Moore writes that Tumblr's explicitness has long been "a kind of haven for the imagination" for those exploring their own sexuality. "Tumblr is going to lose a significant part of its identity that turned it into [the] cultural juggernaut that it is today," he writes. (But this won't affect the platform's shoplifters.)