Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott. The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in Americaĭecoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Inside Sonos' decision to sue Google - and how it wonĪfter the porn ban, Tumblr users have ditched the platform as promised David Cicilline on Apple's monopolistic app store fees How Tumblr Became Popular for Being Obsoleteīasecamp CTO David Heinemeier Hansson and Rep. Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th Why Apple’s new privacy feature is such a big deal Verizon is selling Tumblr to WordPress’ ownerĪutomattic, owner of Tumblr and, buys podcast app Pocket Casts Matt’s point of view is that the world is better off when the web is open and fun, and Automattic builds and acquires products that help that goal along.Įxclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr (When Starbucks started selling alcohol at select stores, some investors were forced to sell their stock.Matt Mullenweg is the CEO of Automattic, the company that owns, which he co-founded, and Tumblr, the irrepressible social network it acquired from the wreckage of AOL, Yahoo, and Verizon. Most traditional investors won’t fund primarily adult businesses, and may not even be allowed to by their LP agreements. In addition to a company primarily serving adult content not having access to normal financial services and being blocked by app stores, they also need specialized service providers – for example, for their bandwidth and network connections. Porn requires different service providers up and down the stack.Tumblr has no way to go back and identify the featured persons or the legality of every piece of adult content that was shared on the platform and taken down in 2018, nor does it have the resources or expertise to do that for new uploads. Non-consensual sharing has grown exponentially and has been a huge problem on dedicated porn sites like Pornhub – and governments have rightly been expanding laws and regulations to make sure everyone being shown in online adult content is of legal age and has consented to the material being shared. The rise of smartphones also means that everyone has a camera that can capture pictures and video at any time. There are lots of new rules around verifying consent and age in adult content.Maybe Twitter gets blocked by Apple sometimes too but can’t talk about it because they’re a public company and it would scare investors. My guess is that Twitter and Reddit are too big for Apple to block so they decided to make an example out of Tumblr, which has “only” 102 million monthly visitors. Aside: Why do Twitter and Reddit get away with tons of super hardcore content? Ask Apple, because I don’t know. ![]() No one in the App Store has any effective power, even multi-hundred-billion companies like Facebook/Meta can be devastated when Apple changes its policies. If you want apps to allow more adult content, please lobby Apple. If Apple permanently banned Tumblr from the App Store, we’d probably have to shut the service down. Previous decisions on what’s allowed can be reversed any time you submit an app update, which we do several times a month. Apple has its own rules for what’s allowed in their App Store, and the interpretation of those rules can vary depending on who is reviewing your app on any given day. ![]() Today 40% of our signups and 85% of our page views come from people on mobile apps, not on the web. ![]() Originally, the iPhone didn’t have an App Store, and the speed of connectivity and quality of the screen meant that people didn’t use their smartphone very much and mostly interacted with Tumblr on the web, using desktop and laptop computers (really). Tumblr started in 2007, the same year the iPhone was released. App stores, particularly Apple’s, are anti-porn.If we lost the ability to process credit cards, it wouldn’t just threaten Tumblr, but also the 2,000+ people in 97 countries that work at Automattic across all our products. The vast majority of Automattic’s revenue comes from people buying our services and auto-renewing on credit cards, including the ads-free browsing upgrade that Tumblr recently launched. ![]() Whatever crypto-utopia might come in the coming decades, today if you are blocked from banks, credit card processing, and financial services, you’re blocked from the modern economy. You’ve probably heard how Pornhub can’t accept credit cards anymore. I am personally extremely libertarian in terms of what consenting adults should be able to share, and I agree with “go nuts, show nuts” in principle, but the casually porn-friendly era of the early internet is currently impossible. That said, no modern internet service in 2022 can have the rules that Tumblr did in 2007.
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