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Cp refers to child porn, the unfortunate publishing of which on Tumblr led to it being pulled from the iOS app store and then disallowing nsfw content on Tumblr.


The real reason behind the disallowing of NSFW is Tumblr positioning itself to be bought by Verizon.


Just to nitpick the causality here, Tumblr was bought by Yahoo in 2013 then Yahoo was bought by Verizon/Oath in 2017 and now the porn ban is hitting afterward.


I think it's a little of column A and a little of column B. Of course, one more than the other.


Verizon already owns Tumblr (through the intermediary company of Oath)




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