Two "anti pornography events" have recently occurred in the Internet world.
Before and after November 20, 2018, WeChat announced the suspension of the "drifting bottle" function, because the media reported that there were pornographic content and prostitution advertisements.
A few days later, Tumblr, a light blogging website on the other side of the globe, announced that it would completely ban users from publishing adult content from December 17.
In the same way, netizens raised their thumbs for WeChat, but questioned Tumblr's soul:
Less than a day later, the stock price of Tumblr's parent company was challenged by netizens and attempted to commit suicide.
Adult content was officially deleted on the 17th, leaving little time for racing! The hardworking and brave netizens quickly made“ Soup is not hot moving script ”, can automatically download the contents in the Tumblr account's favorite list, and save them little by little.
"This enthusiastic netizen, do you think what I lack is a moving script? What I lack is a collection list!"
More exaggerated things happened soon, hundreds of thousands of people poured into a "well-known petition website" called change.org, hoping Tumblr could withdraw its decision and continue to retain adult content
By 2:00 p.m. on December 5, the number of "petitioners" had exceeded 300000, which only took half a day.
The demands of netizens are very direct:
"Tumblr continues to allow users to publish pornographic content. If it really doesn't work, it's OK to open a special version of the website. Don't delete the efforts of netizens for many years“
The ban on prostitution has also provoked hundreds of thousands of people to petition against it, which is expected to happen in the evil capitalist countries.
It can be understood that the petition netizens are nostalgic for adult content. After all, Confucius said that "food and color, sex". But I believe that among the hundreds of thousands of netizens who petitioned, most of them have not yet understood why Tumblr banned pornography and why it was banned at this time.
In my opinion, Tumblr yellow ban is not an accident, but an inevitable event.
1)
Tumblr's ban on pornography was not voluntary.
Banning pornography will cause a large number of users to lose. In fact, their own data department knows better than anyone, but there is no way.
The debater Huang Zhizhong once said: "The problem in your eyes may be the solution in others' eyes" - parents think that children's addiction to games is a problem, but in children's eyes, playing games may be the solution without sense of achievement; You think smoking is a problem for others, but in the eyes of others, smoking is a solution to alleviate anxiety.
In the eyes of netizens, Tumblr's prohibition of adult content is a problem, but in Tumblr's eyes, Completely banning adult content is another problem -- the solution to child pornography And is the only solution.
In fact, Tumblr has been driving for 11 years. Since its establishment in 2007, it has been tolerant of adult content, because it is a website focusing on artistic creation, and the boundaries between art and pornography are really blurred. Many paintings, photographs and sculptures involve naked human organs.
The most direct benefit of tolerance for pornographic content to Tumblr is traffic. Quite a few netizens go to Tumblr for the first time to watch adult content. Now, when searching Tumblr on Baidu, the top results are all keywords such as "people die when the essence is exhausted" and "malnourished APP".
Although pornographic content has also brought some problems to Tumblr, such as being blocked in China, South Korea and other countries that have strict regulations on pornographic content, even so, Tumblr has been playing the role of "parking lot" for ten years, and countless young drivers are driving here.
The fuse was lit on November 20, 2018, just two weeks before the yellow ban announcement was issued. The Tumblr app was suddenly removed from the Apple App Store because of the discovery of child pornography. `
In many countries, people's attitude towards child pornography is zero tolerance.
Tumblr encountered a technical problem. It is almost impossible to screen out the part involving child pornography perfectly from a pile of adult pornography. Not to mention that it is difficult to identify whether the protagonist is an adult from thousands of pornographic pictures and videos, even if it is difficult to screen pornographic pictures from ordinary works of art.
Technical problems are difficult to solve, and child pornography must not be touched, so Tumblr can only be forced to completely ban pornography.
If we want to solve the problem in our eyes, the best way is to help the other party find the solution they need. So instead of hundreds of thousands of people petitioning, it would be better to find a solution that can help Tumblr screen out child pornography perfectly, but it seems unlikely with the current technology.
2)
In addition to the fuse of Apple Store, there is an essential reason for Tumblr to ban pornography.
Have you ever thought about:
Drifting bottles have been in existence for more than 8 years, and Tumblr has also been doing it for 11 years. Why didn't you eliminate pornography at first, but later? The reason is very simple, because in the past, the influence and size were small, but later the influence and size became larger and larger.
Shi Zhonglaoshi said a logic in Tencent in the prime of life:
When you are a child, no one wants you to shoulder the burden of your family; When you are a teenager, your family will praise your growth and forgive your mistakes; When you enter the prime of life, you should carry the gas tank for your family, repair the electric light, run into the wind and rain every day to earn real money, so that parents, wives and children can gain dignity and happiness.
The same is true for a product and a company. When its size and influence are small, its mistakes are easy to be understood or ignored by the public. But when its size and attention are growing, its cost of making mistakes will be higher.
When a company enters its prime and becomes a giant with increasing influence, it naturally takes on the so-called "social responsibility" on its shoulders. Under the eyes of the public, every move is magnified, and its actions will become cautious.
Over the years, WeChat has grown rapidly, but the function of drift bottle has been entangled by the problem of vulgar content that is difficult to eradicate, and has lost the team. Tumblr also grew rapidly. It could not solve the problem of content review with technology, so it had to abandon its martial arts.
It is almost certain that even if Tumblr does not ban adult content this time, as long as it intends to continue to grow, it will still encounter this wall sooner or later.
3)
What will happen after Tumblr bans yellow?
In fact, netizens need not care at all. The adult content prohibited by Tumblr will not disappear, but will continue to take root in another place.
I don't know whether you can remember. In fact, when WeChat first appeared, everyone was still using QQ. At that time, WeChat was also known as the "magic weapon of gun appointment". Drifting bottles, people nearby, shake it for use in flying. When the WeChat volume is slightly larger, the hat will naturally be removed.
In fact, before WeChat, Xiaomi's Mi Tan also wore the hat of a magic weapon.
After WeChat, another artifact, Momo, soared into the sky. A few years later, Momo went public and became bigger, and began to get rid of the word "about guns". Soon a new artifact will pop up...... (or already has one)
Keynes said that demand is the root of market activities. As long as the demand is still there, there will be a steady stream of new products and services to fill the vacancy. As long as the hormones of men and women do not stop being restless, "magic tools" will continue to appear.
Similarly, as long as people still have a demand for adult content, there will be a new load. There will be thousands of "soup is not hot" and thousands of "soup is not cold" waiting to become the next "soup is not hot".
In fact, similar stories are repeated again and again in the Internet world.
In 2016, Taobao took very strict measures to crack down on counterfeits. Before that, Taobao grew rapidly because of its rich variety of goods, and was criticized for fakes. After the crackdown on counterfeit goods, have the businesses selling fake and fake goods disappeared? No, They sold their goods to the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth tier cities, so after a few years, Pinduoduo came out, and through the joint efforts of small businesses, they came to a "consumption upgrade in third and fourth tier cities".
People's demand for cheap and licensed small commodities has not disappeared, but these commodities no longer adapt to the growth of Taobao, and there is Pinduoduo. When Pinduoduo starts to crack down on fakes in a few years, another "Pinduoduo" will pop up
Just like the dragon slaying warrior picking up the treasure in the cave and finding scales on his arm... If the story of dragon slaying wants to end, the only way is to destroy the treasure, otherwise every warrior who goes up the mountain to slay the dragon will turn into the next dragon.
The warrior's desire to occupy treasure is like the desire of people in the real world. As long as everyone has not been castrated, if one soup is not hot, the next one will not be hot. Don't worry.
No, another website started to actively welcome Tumblr refugees.
Young people should be happy. When the soup is cold, let him go.
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