The Not-So-Great Porn Blog Crackdown ALMOST Hits Tumblr

[Anthony_JK]

It looks more and more like the big social media companies are trying their best to throttle adult speech out of the Internet.

We all know about Google and Apple's attempts to kick adult commerce out of their apps, but now the blog hosting sites are cracking down as well.

Already WordPress.com and Blogger have already started deleting adult blogs containing affiliate links, and WP has already banished porn blogs from their WordPress.com inhouse hosting service altogether. Blogger for now still allows for adult content, but they recently sent out changes to their TOS threatening to banish any site with affiliate links or ads to paid porn sites.

And just this last week, Tumblr had its attempt to throttle their abundant adult blogspace through the erasure of porn blogs from their search engines, though they had to ratchet it back after a swift and sudden backlash. Still, it's an open secret that Yahoo! (who now owns Tumblr) is under pressure from major advertisers and their mostly conservative base of followers to throw their adult content under the bus and lock them in a virtual basement to be barely seen and not heard.

In any case, here are a couple of articles on the matter, with suggestions on how adult bloggers and webmasters can manoever around this hornest nest.

Tumblr Reverses Its Pornocalypse -- For Now (Ms. Naughty's Porn For Women)
The Pornocaplyse Comes For Us All (Eros Blog)

The best option, I'd say, is to save some pennies and self host your blogs through WordPress.org and a paid webhost (like Vicky does with the VNA via Webair, and I do with my Red Garter Club network of blogs via HostGator.com.