When Tumblr bans porn, who loses?

geekandmisandry:

gayharoldfinch:

smitethepatriarchy:

dick-davis:

anosci:

smitethepatriarchy:

tranarchist:

A former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain
anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in
the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it
was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September,
shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an
all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the
former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child
pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem
was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn.

Porn on Tumblr is something Verizon needs to wipe out if it’s going to
make any money off what it thinks is actually valuable about the
platform — enormous fandom and social justice communities that, just
before the Verizon acquisition, Khalaf was insisting the staff figure
out how to better monetize.

On that note-

Two former Tumblr employees said they were alarmed when Khalaf chose
Black Lives Matter as an example of a community that the company should
focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers. One told The Verge,
“Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to
[make] a ton of money.”

Capitalism is disgusting and ruins everything.

cool! unsurprising!

How the FUCK are you going to blame capitalism on something a bunch of idiots in a board room decided without any market research!? This has nothing to do with money as Dec17th hits, it’s going to hit their pockets harder than anything. Verizon owns Yahoo who owns Tumblr and if you are suggesting that some other form of “economic utopia” I.E. socialism would’ve prevented this I’d love to hear it. Fucking idiots @smitethepatriarchy

So we got one person claiming that capitalizing on markets has nothing to so with capitalism and then dick here, despite the fact that he’s aware that Verizon owns Tumblr, claiming that this has nothing to do with money.

Did you even, like, glance at the article? This happened because Verizon can’t sell ads on a platform that allows porn and remain on the App Store. Just leave Tumblr already dick.

how are you gonna blame capitalism on something a bunch of capitalists without oversight in a private board room decided??

So now we are just blaming capitalism for the actions of capitalists?????

When Tumblr bans porn, who loses?