Imgur is banning porn and purging old anonymous uploads

Imgur founder Alan Schaaf at Web Summit 2018. | Photo by Diarmuid Greene /Web Summit via Getty Images

Popular image hosting platform Imgur is done with hosting pornography. In a blog post published this week, the company says it has a new terms of service coming into effect on May 15th and that, as a result, it'll be removing nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content" from its platform as well as old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account."

You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms," Imgur wrote in its blog post. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content."

The blog post doesn't offer much detail about how Imgur is defining old, unused, and inactive content." Depending on the definition, this could cover a huge portion...

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