Hide your “Tony the Tiger”/”Eugene Levy” fan fiction — those phrases, along with hundreds of others, are now banned from Tumblr’s iOS app. Now, any personal blog that flags itself as “mature” is not accessible on the iOS app — users will see a p…
Tumblr goes overboard censoring tags on iOS to comply with Apple’s guidelines https://t.co/BeqHFEgvhT pic.twitter.com/CIS502w1uX
— The Verge (@verge) December 28, 2021
Apple has pressured Tumblr to add even stricter censorship to its iOS app, which resulted in a list of banned tags being deployed this weekend, which appears to include dangerous words like “reblog” and “girl” (though, not “boy” lol) pic.twitter.com/hrJvy2IcHW
— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) December 26, 2021
SOURCE: TechCrunch