\nSo, has anybody actually explained the Tumblr porn ban? The only “explanations” I’ve seen are just exercises in kicking the can down the street.
“Apple won’t let the Tumblr app on the store if there’s porn”
Okay, why not? Other apps in that store host pornography, what makes Twitter special?
And more importantly, when and why did Apple decide to ban some apps that host pornography.
Actually, honestly and genuinely, the big question to me is, “If outside forces make it so impossible for a hosting platform to host pornography then how come Twitter can still do it? How come pixiv can still do it?”
One of the admins recently posted a long explanation. The answer to that last question is “double standards are complete bullshit but not following them could get the site shut down”.
It goes even deeper than that - credit card companies, investors, and hosting services all tend to either hate porn or have someone in their supply chain who does.
That’s the post I was vaguing about.
I was thinking, “If I was looking for hentai, where would I look?”
Pixiv? Still on the app store, still taking PayPal payments for artists on the platform.
Gumroad? Still on the app store, I assume you can still buy pornographic doujinshi there.
Twitter? Etc. Etc.
So we’ve just kicked the can down the road. Payment processors, Apple, etc. don’t actually hate platforms that host porn; they hate Tumblr specifically.
That “explanation” is one of those things that sounds plausible until you try to poke at it a little bit and then you realize, “Wait that didn’t explain anything.”
Like it’s easy to understand that Twitter is much bigger and has more leverage than Tumblr’s parent company but I need people to walk me through why I should believe that about Gumroad.
i’ve seen another post that posits that tumblr is in a uniquely bad situation - big enough to attract attention, small enough to not have the clout to resist it. twitter can’t be bullied, gumroad escapes notice
Again, I invoke the time before the ban when I realized the #tcc tag was being used by the “teacher crush community” and decided to click through on a poster and see what kind of people these folks fantasizing about their homeroom teacher railing them were and the third post was a spread-beaver-on-a-bed picture tagged #me #underage
That we were kind of replacing the “Thumbnail Gallery Post” format for online professional porn images wasn’t particularly an issue, but it represented no value loss to shed
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