Actor Mark Ruffalo proclaimed on Friday that Twitter has become “unpredictable and harmful to marginalized groups,” then urged his fans to take this moment as an opportunity to follow him on an alternate social media platform — but added that he will be staying on Twitter.
Blogging platform Tumblr, once a powerhouse of content for millennials, has censored a wide swathe of hashtags on its Apple iOS app, in what the social media company says is an effort to remain within the Apple App Store’s community guidelines. Some of the censored terms include “girl,” “suicide prevention,” and “testicular cancer.”
Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello has apologized after Internet sleuths revealed old posts showing her using racial slurs on social media, saying she is “deeply ashamed” of the ignorance of her teen years.
The once-mighty Tumblr — a social media site that hosts blogs, photos and videos and was favored by young people — is being sold by Verizon at what some reports are saying is a 98 percent discount from its $1.1 billion purchase price just a few years ago.
Masses of Tumblr users are continuing to leave the platform in protest over the social network’s ban of “adult content” this month, made in an effort to comply with Apple’s app store regulations.
The majority of users on the Internet were surprised to read that Tumblr had decided to ban “adult content” on its platform this week, and reacted accordingly. Here were some of the highlights.
Tumblr will ban all adult content on its platform, starting December 17, after it was kicked off of Apple’s App Store over “child sexual exploitation” posts.
Popular microblogging platform Tumblr, popular with teenagers and college-aged youth, has been kicked off of the Apple App Store, allegedly over issues with “child sexual exploitation” being posted on the social network.
A new report this week claims that according to the police, child predators are using the popular online multiplayer game Fortnite to lure in their victims.
Breitbart Tech recently had the opportunity to speak to attorney Daniel Szalkiewicz, who specializes in defamation and Internet privacy cases, most notably those concerning revenge porn and sextortion.
A woman’s lawyer claims Tumblr “has chosen to ignore” revenge porn posted to the platform after it allegedly took three weeks to get a video of her when she was a 17-year-old girl removed from the site.
CEOs from leading tech companies such as Tumblr, Slack, Foursquare, and Reddit have sent a letter to House and Senate leaders, urging them to continue Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is set to resign from her position following Verizon’s upcoming purchase of the company.
Unsurprising to many, Tumblr’s prevalence for porn has been documented in a new report, which discovered nearly 50% of users end up seeing porn in their timeline on the site.
Yahoo has written down a further $428 million of the estimated worth of Tumblr following its acquisition of the microblogging site in 2013. The site has now lost a staggering 50% of its original worth since it was acquired by
Mashable has published a lengthy article explaining the decline of Tumblr and its parent company Yahoo as a result of CEO Marissa Mayer’s leadership, after interviewing multiple current and ex-employees.
Hackers stole around 65 million passwords from Tumblr users in 2013, but the breach has only just been revealed.
Pakistan launched one of its most ambitious censorship initiatives in memory at the beginning of 2016, with a Supreme Court order to “take remedial steps to quantify the nefarious phenomenon of obscenity and pornography that has an imminent role to corrupt and vitiate the youth of Pakistan.” It’s apparently not going well.
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer made a promise not to screw up the Tumblr acquisition, but now she’s about a quarter billion dollars south of keeping it.
The family of a 46-year-old former Florida Sheriff killed while providing police training in the Middle East has sued Twitter, claiming the company “knowingly permitted” ISIS accounts to spread extremist propaganda.
Tumblr, the digital hiding place for fifteen-year-old girls and their teenage angst, is commonly associated with social justice, third-wave feminism and fluorescent-dyed hair. It is a place regularly mocked by other online communities for its politically-correct stances and oversensitive reactions to anything
The blogging platform Tumblr has become a byword for the wackiest politics of the fringe left. It’s the touchy-feely home of people who identify with a vast range of allegedly oppressed demographics, including “otherkin,” “transethnics” and “demisexuals.” Yet for some, the
The mere mention of Tumblr leads to exasperated groans from anyone of sound mind. The microblogging site, now owned by Yahoo!, has played host to a myriad of rabid social justice warriors and third-wave feminists for years. Straight white males are usually
Social justice warriors often claim to oppose “online harassment.” They recently pressured SXSW into holding an all-day summit on the topic. Yet in the same week, a mob of online SJWs bullied a young web artist so severely that she attempted
Avengers actor Mark Ruffalo says those who do not identify themselves as feminists are “ignorant little jerks.”
The whiz kids of Silicon Valley are celebrating the GOP’s apparent collapse on Net Neutrality. The New York Times exults: “the little guys appear to have won.” It omits that the “little guys” are some of the richest people in America, and–by their own lights–the smartest. The odd thing is that the nerds who have an app for everythng seem to be unable to explain what Net Neutrality actually is, and why we need it. Case in point: Tuesday’s epic failure by Tumblr CEO David Karp on CNBC.
On Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, Associated Press correspondent Julie Pace commented on a potential Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential candidacy. However according to Pace, it’s not clear to her why Clinton would be running. “[Elizabeth Warren] is saying something, at
On Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, former Obama adviser David Axelrod offered his thoughts on a potential 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential candidacy. For Axelrod, the entire “Ready for Hillary” movement lacks any substance behind it. “What happened in 2008 was
South Park‘s Wednesday season finale took on some of 2014’s most serious subjects, and in its usual fashion, the show stoked the fires of controversy. From Bill Cosby, to Iggy Azalea’s backside, to the deaths of young black men at
Jonathan Gruber declared “take it up with my counsel” when he was asked if he would provide copies of ACA-related work products he gave to the federal government by Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday.
Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber repeatedly refused to answer how much he was paid for his lectures on Obamacare before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday. Representative Jim Jordan repeatedly asked Gruber how much he was paid, to which he was
San Diego demonstrators joined in nationwide “planned responses” Tuesday associated with protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Demonstrators temporarily blocked the 15 freeway one of the city’s main arteries. In addition, protests at City Heights and the Federal Building were outlined on
“Hands Up Don’t Shop Plan a Blackout Black Friday” reads a post from the Ferguson National Response Network. The locally-organized group has kept a running list of planned protests since Monday night’s grand jury announcement that Officer Darren Wilson would not be
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is using President Barack Obama’s own words to argue against executive action on immigration. Boehner spokesman Matt Wolking on Wednesday laid out 22 instances when Obama said he could not create or ignore immigration law
The Church of England has hit back at the government for imposing a “narrowly focussed” set of ‘British Values’ on schools in the wake of the Trojan horse scandal. The measures are designed to combat Islamic extremism but could instead
Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) addressed the controversial comments from ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber where he has said several times over the last few years said that American voters were stupid. The minority leader denied knowledge of Gruber on
On this weekend’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week,” Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said despite former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton being the favorite for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, she still face a “hard road” to get that nomination should
At a gun shop near Ferguson, Missouri, the manager told CNN that sales of firearms for personal protection have increased nearly 50 percent. As stores in Ferguson and nearby areas board up their fronts in fear of riots that could
Keira Knightley did something we’re not used to hearing about in Hollywood. The 29-year-old actress posed topless for the August issue of Interview Magazine in protest against photoshop so people could see her in her natural state. The shoot was reportedly a
Some female devotees of ‘sexual jihad’ who have travelled to the Near East to marry terrorists are being used by organisations like the Islamic State to humiliate British Muslims into taking up arms by questioning their masculinity for staying at
