{"id":1169353,"date":"2021-12-29T13:19:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T18:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169353"},"modified":"2021-12-29T13:19:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T18:19:20","slug":"tumblr-escalates-censorship-to-placate-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tumblr-escalates-censorship-to-placate-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Tumblr Escalates Censorship to Placate Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftumblr-escalates-censorship-to-placate-apple%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169353&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Blogging platform Tumblr, once a powerhouse of content for millennials, has censored a wide swathe of hashtags on its Apple iOS app, in what the social media company says is an effort to remain within the Apple App Store\u2019s community guidelines. Some of the censored terms include \u201cgirl,\u201d \u201csuicide prevention,\u201d and \u201ctesticular cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a list compiled by a Tumblr user, the censorship extends to seemingly-mundane hashtags.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_9732179\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/tumblr-photobooth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9732179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/tumblr-photobooth.jpg\" alt=\"Teenagers in a Tumblr photobooth\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millennials in a Tumblr photobooth (Mat Hayward\/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19052434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Apple-CEO-Tim-Cook-and-his-V-for-Victory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19052434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Apple-CEO-Tim-Cook-and-his-V-for-Victory.jpg\" alt=\"Apple CEO Tim Cook and his V for Victory\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple CEO Tim Cook and his V for Victory (Kevin Dietsch\/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/12\/28\/22856734\/tumblr-censor-tags-ios-apple-guidelines\">the Verge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Another Tumblr user, aptly named \u201cbannedtags,\u201d has been keeping track of all the blocked tags in a Google Doc. The user notes that most of these tags have been banned on iOS \u2014not on all devices \u2014 and that the listed tags are subject to change. Some banned tags are blatantly related to sexual, violent, or harmful content, but others don\u2019t seem to belong on the list, and may actually do more harm than good by staying on it.<\/p>\n<p>For example, \u201cgirl,\u201d \u201csad,\u201d and oddly enough, \u201cAlec Lightwood,\u201d an actor from the show Shadowhunters, has been banned (because even Tumblr can\u2019t handle those eyes). \u201cSingle dad,\u201d \u201csingle mom,\u201d \u201csingle parent,\u201d \u201csuicide prevention,\u201d and \u201ctesticular cancer\u201d are also on the list, potentially harming those who want to seek support in any of these areas.<\/p>\n<p>To make things even weirder, Tumblr blacklisted some tags that basically function as unspoken social cues on the site. \u201cMe\u201d and \u201cmy face\u201d are blocked, both of which are tags that bloggers use to label their selfies (oh, and did I forget to mention that \u201cselfie\u201d is banned, too?). The platform appears to have blocked \u201cqueue\u201d as well, a tag that\u2019s typically applied to posts that were placed in a queue and serves as a signal to followers that they may not be online at the moment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apple and Google, which control approximately 99 percent of the market share in operating systems for mobile devices worldwide, operate an effective duopoly on access to smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>While it is possible to install apps on Android devices without going through the Google Play Store, it is not possible to install apps on iOS devices without going through the App Store, meaning that a ban from the App Store means total loss of access to the market of iOS users.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging platform Tumblr, once a powerhouse of content for millennials, has censored a wide swathe of hashtags on its Apple iOS app, in what the social media company says is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":1891982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}