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This sort of action is very infrequent and I'd be shocked if there wasn't solid reasoning behind it. Tumblr has been passed around several times and is currently ultimately owned by Verizon. I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon is essentially ignoring Tumblr and they have ignored a child porn problem that is much worse than that on imgur, reddit, twitter, etc.

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This, Tumblr simply doesn't do enough to guard against the problem. The simple steps they could take that would have avoided this are:

- Clearly word their TOS/AUP to forbid any depictions of minors in a sexual context. They are a private organization, it is well within their rights to exclude any content regardless of whether some might have fringe legal status.

- Assign even one single moderator to pro-actively hunt down obvious keywords, blogs, and content.

- Have an easy 'report post' and 'report blog' functionality. Ban false reporters accounts.

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