Tumblr App Removed from IOS Store Over Concerns of Child Pornography

[zodgory]

Tumblr was removed from Apple’s App Store over child pornography issues https://t.co/AYuKUcvKnE pic.twitter.com/asiL2Rwr8Q
- The Verge (@verge) November 20, 2018
As of November 16, the app for tumblr has been missing from the Apple store. Initially Tumblr said they were working on the issue and then word started to spread that they were taken down

Comments

[aeromi]

i actually stumbled upon some a couple weeks ago and i wanted to die, it was one of those things that i knew existed but didnt think i would ever see in my lifetime :(

[dreamdate]

oh no :(

[iznanassi]

same, it's happened to me before as well

[tres_francais]

omg :( I'm so thankful this never happened to me. I was traumatized enough by the bestiality pics I stumbled upon on tumblr, I'm so sorry you were accidentally exposed to cp :(

[maryhurt]

This was posted then deleted then posted again... mess

[zoaster_toaster]

I feel like this has been a big issue with Tumblr for a long time and it's incredible for it to take until now for people to notice.

[disasterboss]

yeah like this is not at all surprising and one of the reasons that i don't use it anymore. i've only ever seen issues within fandoms--fanfic and fanart, but ppl are naive if they think that that's what its been limited to. i've seen too many call out posts for predators and pedophiles who are going after kids/teens on there. it just needs to be burned down and salted tbh.

[wearescientists]

ugh there’s even pedos in the roleplay community and get called out WITH receipts but they don’t get taken down

[fruitchews]

mte. Fandom/art was something a bit different, but those communities were definitely infiltrated. Like aging characters down to actual children and so on. But the pedo community got shelter in the MOGAI/queer movement, and it fed on from there. It was truly a mess.

[sandstorm]

Sounds like they need to update their image database more frequently.

Also the fact that they're just deleting people without rhyme or reason is hilarious. If the people of tumblr can get job programming half-assed shit, so will I.

[iznanassi]

tumblr has taken the twitter model of "awful criminals and bigots are allowed to use our platform because a lot of them congregate here" for years now so their statement is bullshit. they've been allowing mass targeted harassment by bigots against ~tumblr SJWs~, and banning the accounts who replied, not doing anything about the actually COMMUNITY for CSA on the platform. it's the people using the platform who have been dedicating their time to compiling all the evidence for these blogs so we can mass report them, and even then tumblr does nothing.

[tsarinakate1]

Its fucking hard to find their report for any blog. You can't seem to do it from the mobile app, but need to search around for it, and even then, there seems to be NO follow up

There are a bunch of scary nazi tumblrs that they don't seem to be doing anything about.

[hermionemalfoy]

I recently encountered a Japanese supremacist / anti-Korean hate blog and reported it, and it was like ... wild. Most of it was in Japanese, but enough was in English to figure out that the goal was to radicalize English-speaking people into believing that Koreans were liars who couldn't be trusted. It reminded me of anti-semitic propaganda/conspiracy theories, except it was anti-Korean instead. Yikes.

I reported it and blocked it, but their reporting feature is so cumbersome that I can't imagine many people go through it when they want to leave the blog as fast as possible.

[ohwutevernvm]

Omg that’s fucked up