For those of you who access Tumblr through our Android app, we wanted to share that starting today you may see some differences for search queries and posts that may contain specific types of sensitive content. In order to comply with Google’s Play Store Guidelines, we have adjusted what you’re able to access as it relates to potentially sensitive content while using the Android app.
To remain available within Google’s Play Store, we have added more measures and limit exposure to potentially sensitive content in order to comply with their guidelines and to provide a safer experience to you. To learn more about Google’s Play Store Guidelines, click here.
How you may experience these changes
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Why these changes are being made
We want to make sure Tumblr is available everywhere you would like to access it. In order for us to remain in Google’s Play Store and for our Tumblr Android app to be available, we needed to make changes that would help us be more compliant with Google’s policies around sensitive content.
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Who this impacts
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Ah, that’s what’s going on with the whole “android app users suddenly seeing a tonne of mature content filter warnings nobody else is seeing”.
Seems like something has gone screwy with a new wave of overzealous auto-flagging (what else is new lmao) but ALSO that there’s a class of filters that are only seen by android app users? Because, again, *only* updated android app users are seeing lots of these posts and profiles being flagged as mature.
(screenshot below is from the notes of this post confirming that staff are using an image classifier, not word lists, to filter and flag content)
oh yeah we’re SO back! it’s 2021 once again and we are getting our NORMAL POSTS rampantly and unpredictably FLAGGED by ROBOTS who think still life pictures of FRUIT are BARE ASSCHEEKS, all because of hyper-conservative payment processors and abritrary human reviews on app stores!!!!!!
*confetti*
Oh this explains why I had to submit my curtain sewing prep for manual review…
This isn’t even a slight exaggeration. JKR has openly given at least £70,000 to For Women Scotland to campaign against trans rights and fund this exact supreme court ruling. xx
Her anti-trans Crisis Centre in Edinburgh has the director of For Women Scotland on the Board of Directors. x
We can presume she’s given more (financial) support off the record or in other ways.
Rowling consistently makes passive income on all Harry Potter products. Multiple sources have cited that Rowling earns anywhere between $50 million to a $100 million each year from royalties. Forbes estimated she earned $95 million in 2017 alone. xxx
It is a well-known fact that she earns net profit percentages on all her IP. Every time you buy any HP merch, from anywhere, she gets a cut. Every time you watch one of her films, even streaming or just on the tv, she gets a cut. Every time you visit Universal Studios or Harry Potter World, she gets a cut.
And she uses that money to do this. To strip trans rights at every opportunity.
Counter point, those machines can make me a peach sprite.
guys did you know the tech in that nefangled machine revolutionized preemie healthcare
yeah the guy who invented them made incredibly precise infusion pumps (as opposed to gravity fed ivs) which not only meant they could give medications to teeny tiny babies safely, it’s also used for insulin pumps and portable dialysis machines. the key element is that it’s a peristaltic pump so the liquid stays in sterile tubing for safety
(unholy drink cloaca uses it to dispense precise amounts of flavored sugar syrup)
