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Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).  

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

You see When God created everything and then Adam. He told him about the tree he said don’t eat of it.

God never told Eve.

When Eve was in the garden being tempted read that section you’ll find something interesting. Adam was right next to her and he didn’t say anything. He was using Eve as a Guinea pig.

Eve bit into the fruit nothing changed she handed it to Adam. And when he bit into it their eyes were opened.

People who fall for this and say “Adam was a fuck boy” are the same people who read the headline on tabloid sites but not the article then don’t actually follow up with research about the accuracy of the article.

It’s grey and teal.

Gray and teal.

Someones right to get married does not supersede someone else right to serve their chosen God how they will. But you know what, only Christians are being targeted, no one fucking asks a Muslim run bakery or wedding venue to do it. 

SNL can fuck off a fucking cliff and die a horrible death. They’re not funny, they’re not relevant anymore and they definitely are full of leftists political bull fucking shit. 

While they actually lose the case, the question of what products a person is forced to make comes into question. Would you make the same claim if the Small business owners were of Islamic faith, and refused because of their beliefs. Most people wouldn’t object. Most people also wouldn’t object if the bakers were gay and refused to make cakes for straight couples. I think they should all be within their rights to run their business as they see fit.

People would totally object if a gay baker decided to discriminate against straight people. Don’t lie to yourself.

If the business owners were Islamic and discriminated against gay people I would still be saying the same thing yes.

Businesses don’t have the right to discriminate, not even for religious purposes. Freedom of religion isn’t a thing for businesses because businesses aren’t people and don’t have constitutional rights like people have.

It’s not “forcing a business to make something for you” especially if that someone is paying you. The whole point of businesses is to serve the public. The public is not here to cater to a business owner’s feelings, businesses exist to serve the public. That is why it’s called “service.” The public isn’t a slave to the whims of business owners and it shouldn’t be that way, rather businesses cater to the tastes and decisions of their costumers in order to make money. That is the whole basis behind the free market. The decision to buy goods and services is the costumer’s, it shouldn’t be up to business owners to decide who can and can’t buy what. That is the opposite of free market.

If you decide to start a business then your business is inherently obligated to serve anybody who is willing to pay and behave fairly. You do not have the choice to discriminate against certain groups and the law explicitly states so (thanks to that court case and judicial review). That’s part of the deal.

So I mean I GUESS a business owner can decide to be a bitch and discriminate but they won’t be a business owner for long so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why wouldn’t you want to expose a business owner’s bigotry and have the freedom to take your business elsewhere and not give them your patronage?

Discrimination goes both ways. It literally means the right to choose, and in a free market people could and should enjoy the right to associate and disassociate with whomever they want for whatever reason. It goes beyond “religious excuses.” It’s about having the basic freedom to enjoy the right to freedom of choice.

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