[ SECRET POST #4358 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4358 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Is it at all possible that tumblr had problems mediating illegal content in the first place because they were dealing with so many unfounded reports about child porn? Like I truly have no idea how a website typically handles those things and why tumblr couldn't, but... I get the impression neither does anyone else.

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno. If that was a problem, it certainly doesn't seem like Tumblr made any attempts to solve it before they landed on "delete everything".

[liz_marcs]

I can potentially see this as a problem, too.

Back in the ancient internet days, there were a lot of human eyeballs looking at things, but that was before the avalanche of social networking (I mean, Facebook was still a closed network at the time) and the numbers of people using social networking in any kind of meaningful way.

Now I think a lot of social networking sites use a combination of user reporting, bots to pre-emptively deal with things, and human eyeballs for any kind of follow-up. The problem is that a lot of the social networking sites are cheap as fuck and don't have enough human eyeballs vetting, well, anything.

Based on the user side of Tumblr, I'm thinking they cheap-ed out on, well, EVERYTHING.

I mean, Tumblr always struck me as being run on a shoestring. The fact that a lot of its functions are automated is fine, but it seems like it didn't have the infrastructure to support anything beyond that. Even where there was some attempt to update the site's functions, implementation was always poor and things always got broken. People were given functions they didn't want, and functions they wanted were either taken away, hidden, or never implemented.

I think corporate ownership just made the situation worse. Yahoo had a habit of buying up shit and then driving it into the ground because they didn't know what to do with it, which was ALREADY happening with Tumblr.

Now you've got Verizon in the process of buying Yahoo, and if Yahoo wants that sweet, sweet infusion of cash, it's got to work with Verizon. Rumor has it that Tumblr was already heading for a crackdown as part of the Verizon deal, and there MAY be something to that. Verizon doesn't own any social network sites and Tumblr just happens to be one. So it kind of makes sense that Verizon might single Tumblr out for potential development.