Skip to main content

Yahoo won't restrict porn on Tumblr

Yahoo won't restrict porn on Tumblr

Share this story

porn
porn

During Yahoo's Flickr press event this evening, CEO Marissa Mayer responded to a question about restricted content on Tumblr, and confirmed that Yahoo has no plans to cull controversial material — meaning Tumblr's porn is safe. "It's the nature of user-generated content," Mayer said, answering one of the most pressing questions for many users of the service since rumors of the $1.1 billion acquisition began to swirl. However, Mayer promoted Tumblr's existing "NSFW" (not safe for work) tools to label controversial content on the network; "It's really important to have great community tools like 'NSFW' that Tumblr already has in place," she said.

Mayer's comments specifically answer a question that was merely suggested this morning, when she wrote about the acquisition in the Yahoo blog. "Tumblr is incredible special and has a great thing going," Mayer wrote. "We promise not to screw it up."