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No Porn Restrictions For Tumblr With Yahoo!

Yahoo! CEO says the company will not flash any branding on the blogging service, and let it be.

 

It is no secret that many Tumblr loyalists are tuned in to the service just because of the explicit content that is freely available. In fact a couple of years ago, a Gawker.com report even attributed the blogging service's success to pornographic material and spam. While the internet doesn't mind nudity or erotica, and doesn't really moral police its users, there are other services such as Apple's iTunes App Store that pull off apps for promoting such content. That is one reason, as Cnet.com suggests, that the Tumblr app for the iOS platform has let go of its porn label, and added a mature rating to it.

However, Yahoo! which has now acquired the service suggests that it will not object to the content hosted on Tumblr. At an event in New York, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer said that she had no objection with the kind of stuff that goes up on Tumblr, reports Daily Mail. However, she did add, "We will not have Yahoo branding on the Tumblr site. We want to let Tumblr be Tumblr, and let Yahoo be Yahoo", which means two things: Yahoo! will leave Tumblr alone, and that you may not see Yahoo! flaunt porno openly anytime soon.


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