>>9696842PART ONE: Ground Zero
>To understand why shit’s gotten so fucked, we must first turn back the clock to November 17th, 2018, precisely at around 4 PM EST>Without warning, Tumblr’s iOS app was removed from Apple’s App Store over “unknown circumstances”, sending thousands of Tumblrina’s into a state of ABSOLUTE PANIC>Download.com, a popular software review site, attempted to reach out to Tumblr to find out exactly why this happened so quickly>Three days later, Tumblr got back to them, and delivered an official company statement on their staff blog>While every image uploaded to their platform is “scanned against an industry database of child sexual abuse material” to filter out illegal images, they wrote, a “routine audit” discovered content absent from the database, allowing it to slip through the filter. They took quick action and soon removed the content from their platform>Basically, the app was shut down due to large amounts of CP slipping past AI site filters>Panicked and desperate to save face from such a harsh blow, Tumblr needed to take immediate action to make sure an event of that scale never happened again, even it if meant alienating their own user base>Fast forward fifteen days or so, and Tumblr made another official press briefing, one that would change the very fabric of the internet forever…Sorry, forgot to add on the first part.
