Slashdot: Tumblr Goes Overboard Censoring Tags on iOS To Comply With Apple's Guidelines

Tumblr Goes Overboard Censoring Tags on iOS To Comply With Apple's Guidelines
Published on December 29, 2021 at 12:28AM
An update to Tumblr's iOS app censors a long list of tags to comply with Apple's strict safety guidelines. From a report: The platform explains that it's changing iOS users' ability to access sensitive content, affecting their experience when it comes to searching for content, scrolling through the "Stuff for You" and "Following" sections of the dashboard, and could even prevent access to blogs that are flagged. Tumblr says it has to "extend the definition of what sensitive content is" to "remain available within Apple's App Store," and it seems that Tumblr stretched it pretty far. Tags are what make posts searchable on Tumblr; posts with censored tags won't appear on a users' dashboard, nor will they show up on the platform's search page. A Twitter thread brought attention to some of the absurd tags that ended up getting filtered out on iOS, including the tag "submission." The interesting part, though, is that Tumblr applies that tag automatically when a post is submitted and then published to a blog on the platform. Users on iOS who receive a submission to their blog won't even be able to view it since the "submission" tag is already added, as shown in a post by one Tumblr user.

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