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> That's what you get when you want to be PC

I'd hardly consider this "trying to be PC".

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

This is more about bowing down to America's backwards views on sex and nudity, most likely in order to appease advertisers and/or Apple.

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I can't imagine the advertisers being too hot on literal nazism and white supremacism, though. At least I hope not.

Well, you wouldn’t think so, but a lot of the anger on Tumblr the past few days has been that they’re destroying major communities (more than just NSFW; they deleted everything tagged with “chronic pain”, for goodness sake, and how is that relevant?), but leaving all the Nazis alone.

Deleting "chronic pain" posts makes sense if Tumblr is trying to eliminate drug-related posts with as much cleverness and grace as the porn purge. (Chronic is uncommon slang for marijuana.)

Chronic pain is also closely link with opiod abuse.

It seems to me that boards are way more sensitive on female breasts then on white supremacism.

> and/or Apple

Apple has nothing to do with this. Tumblr was removed from the app store specifically because of child porn; plus, if the anonymous sources are to be believed, Tumblr have been working on this for >6 months, predating the app store snafu.

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