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Porn will disappear from Tumblr as of December 17, sexual content of an "artistic, educational and political or journalistic interest" nature will not be prohibited.

There will be no gap for sexual content and naked on Tumblr. The social network announced on Monday through its website that will prohibit this type of adult content from December 17. With his decision, he tries to eliminate the pornographic and erotic images that have been shared so far through his blog platform.

 As announced by their new terms of use, you cannot "upload images, videos or gifs that show clearly visible genitals or female nipples or represent sexual acts", something that up to now did happen unlike other social networks like Instagram or Facebook. Also, the content already published that does not comply with these rules will disappear.

The announcement comes a few weeks after the Tumblr app was removed from the Apple Store on November 16. The reason why it disappeared from the digital store was an image of child pornography that the filters of the platform did not detect and, therefore, allowed its publication.

In 2013, the company dedicated to measuring the traffic of the Similar Group websites already announced that more than a fifth of the Tumblr traffic was generated with pornographic content.

"Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place to express itself openly and creatively. Over the past few months, inspired by our past, we have seriously reflected on who we want to be so that our community can continue to advance and We have worked hard to lay the foundations of a better Tumblr, we have realized that to continue fulfilling our promise, especially as it evolves, we must change, "the company comments from its website.

The blog platform emphasizes that it will make exceptions with respect to some images of a sexual nature whose content is "artistic, educational and of political or journalistic interest".

She has also confirmed to The Verge that images of mother’s breastfeeding their children will be allowed and that the written texts are not part of this new regulation, so the erotic stories will not be vetoed.

"Publishing anything that is harmful to children, including child pornography, is aberrant and has no place in our community we have always had and will have zero tolerance for this type of content. Tumblr will continue to be a place for discussing the art, sexual freedom, relationships and personal travel of blog authors, "says Tumblr, who admits that" not all changes will be applied overnight. "

The Tumblr algorithms will signal the publications that may violate this new regulation. The company will send an email to the authors of those posts to tell them that they have been notified as adult content and that they will disappear from the platform.

These users will have the opportunity to appeal the decision if they consider it to be incorrect and the social network will analyze whether or not it is an error of their automatic tools. The publications that include pornographic content will be classified as private so that no other user can share them.