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Re:Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th by urda on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:57PM (#18593508)
Apple pulled the app after they had found child pornography on the platform, not because it has porn. Otherwise how would the suite of reddit apps (another social site with plenty of porn) exist within the Apple ecosystem? Clearly Tumblr took the nuclear option and just banned everything instead, again not Apple.

Please read up on the situation more before continuing.

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Re:Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th by Grue3 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:38AM (#18596903)
>Apple pulled the app after they had found child pornography on the platform, not because it has porn.

They wouldn't let the app back into the app store unless they get rid of all porn. There's no reason why they would piss of most of their userbase otherwise. "Child pornography" is the classic "think of the children" misdirection, it has always been against the site rules, and the law.

>How would the suite of reddit apps (another social site with plenty of porn) exist within the Apple ecosystem?

They wouldn't for much longer. This is just the beginning.

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Re:Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th by AngryAnt on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @07:03AM (#18598625)
A guess would be that no, they weren't going back on the store without adjusting their rating to R.

And obviously showing that they can keep child porn off their service.

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