Imgur to remove all nudity, pornography & sexually explicit content on May 15th

[jeff100]

Just thought I'd let everyone know, that imgur has updated their TOS and will remove old content not tied to a user's account and most notably nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content.


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[SAM s-300]

here we go again lot of dead links coming up.

 

[VegitoHlove]

So fucking sick of this puritan shit.

 

[forbidden101v]

Sounds like a great way to make people stop using their service. Lots of people left Tumblr when they did the same thing.

 

[VegitoHlove]

Speaking of this kind of thing, I've hard that Anita shitskeesian is starting her nonsense again.

 

[Deleted member 2741424]

Imgur to figure out they fucked up on May 16th

 

[♍VoidTraveler]

I don't really get why people give fucks, i never even used this shit.
When i need to, which isn't often, i just use:

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[dexter111]

Speaking of this kind of thing, I've hard that Anita shitskeesian is starting her nonsense again.

watch out, we've got an oppressed minority here

 

[VegitoHlove]

watch out, we've got an oppressed minority here

Give me free shit.

 

[russianbot]

As with death and taxes, the great Globohomo comes for all eventually.

Looking at their

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it seems the porn isn't the only thing they will be purging.

 

[Hadley]

RIP Imgur.

 

[ChadChan3D]

Just more internet censorship in the name of morality, when the truth is it's capitulation to the advertisement dollar.

 

[danarchist_lewd]

I think it's okay to have some websites where sexual content isn't allowed, but this is pretty fucked up. They have a platform that's been built around user shared content, and a very high percentage of that is sexual content. Now all of that work that people have created will be gone. Or, at least, a lot of links are going to stop working so that really sucks.

But we all know it's for money. The tech industry is entirely built around this model: build something that is actually good and free > Generate lots of users as a result > Reach critical mass and try to monetize > By monetizing, the platform becomes shitty > Everyone shifts to a new platform.