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Not to point out the obvious, but the content you are talking about isn't going to be affected.

The issue with banning adult content, is that it often ends up being more easy to ban all adult content and LGBTQ+ content.

Generally speaking, people on the fringes lose a safe place to discuss issues that matter to them, due to keyword proximity to pornographic keywords.

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Likewise we can't ban/censor our way to good parenting nor will it prevent people (not just kids) from finding bad information in the internet.

If anything the kids will stop using Tumblr at a faster rate once all of the false-positives of the censorship stuff blocks basic enjoyment.

I read the two anecdotes shared as mere allegories of the reaction tumblr is taking to the content that is being banned from the platform, not a 1:1 comparison of pornographic content and body image content; that in mind I think these types of stories are just as relevant when looking at how we signal collective approval of the types of content we are willing to expose ourselves and our young ones to-and the impact these disparate types of content have, wouldn't you say?

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