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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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