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I'd argue that they are since searches for some "adult" terms are now censored but searches for nazi terms are not.

For example:

https://www.tumblr.com/search/breast/recent

https://www.tumblr.com/search/nsfw/recent

vs.

https://www.tumblr.com/search/1488/recent

https://www.tumblr.com/search/heil+hitler/recent

https://www.tumblr.com/search/sieg+heil/recent

edit: Image of other examples in case you don't want to actually go to tumblr's website.

https://i.imgur.com/cgGx4JR.png

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Tumblr also allows me to search for raygold and PTHC does that mean they approve of child pornography now?

I don't believe that the fact that they've restricted a pretty small set of porn-related keywords suggests that furniture is more likely to be caught by tumblrs filters than nazi content, which is the claim the article appears to make.

I think the point is to highlight the "sex is worse than Nazis" logic behind this prioritization.

Yeah, I get that. But the article seems to specifically claim that "the site’s contingent of Nazi bloggers remains relatively unscathed" in the face of the anti-porn algorithm as opposed to "LGBTQ blogs, selfies, cartoon animals, and pictures of furniture" which are "definitely suffering".

I think the reality is that someone important somewhere went on tumblr and said "hey we can't advertise on this, there's porn everywhere!", rather than them trying to filter things out in order of unpleasantness.

Didn't they just have their app removed from Google's Play Store for the presence child porn on their platform? I think the point might be that they cannot reasonably be expected police their platform to determine what porn is and is not acceptable. Surely there is going to be a lot of porn posted that is crazy unacceptable, and I'm sure they don't want to have to sift through it all to discern what is what.

I am actually surprised porn is a big thing they are known for, considering their platform is aimed at kids/adolescents?

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