Big Tuna

Every so often, our Legal and Policy teams review Tumblr’s Community Guidelines to make sure they’re crisp, clear, and—most important of all—an accurate reflection of our community and its values.

Here’s a quick summary of some changes we’ve made (which you can see in detail over on GitHub):

Clarified our policy around promoting terrorism (don’t do it).

Reinforced our policy on posting non-consensual pornography (don’t do it).

Updated our harassment policy to reflect our improved block feature.

Added a dormancy policy to release URLs and archive long-term inactive blogs.

It’s springtime here in New York—birds are singing, bees are buzzing, and love is in the air. It can only mean one thing: It’s time for the latest edition of our Transparency Report, covering July through December, 2015. As with previous editions, this report contains information about all of the requests for user information we’ve received from governments foreign and domestic, as well as all of the copyright and trademark claims we’ve received over the past six months.

So…wanna hear some of the numbers? We received 215 requests for user data or content from 12 foreign countries, 38 U.S. states or the U.S. federal government. These requests affected 0.0013% of all blogs on Tumblr. That means that you’re seven times more likely to win an Academy Award than to be directly affected by these requests.