Ryan Goltry 🌻🇺🇦Apr 21, 2023
Cyberpunk Librarian

Starting May 15, Imgur is instituting a ban on any images containing nudity, pornographic, or otherwise "mature" content. They'll also purge any images not uploaded by a registered account.

So all those images of guides, how-tos, and examples? Those will disappear. I suspect this is going to have an effect on websites like GitHub and GitLab where folks have used Imgur to host the images in their projects' README files.

Even worse, there will be a massive loss of images of protests, government corruption, and citizen journalism. Many of those photos were uploaded anonymously to protect the creator.

https://imgurinc.com/rules

Rules — Imgur: The magic of the Internet

Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Apr 20, 2023 at 11:40amWeb
Show threadCyberpunk LibrarianApr 20, 2023

Interesting discussions about this happening over on the Data Hoarder subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/12sbch3/imgur_is_updating_their_tos_on_may_15_2023_all/

Imgur is updating their TOS on May 15, 2023: All NSFW content to be banned

Posted in r/DataHoarder by u/trd86 • 69 points and 37 comments

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Show threadErtainApr 20, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian Looks like Imgur is fucked.
Show threadMigrated to @[email protected] 🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈Apr 20, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian Just deleted my account
Show threadjoeApr 20, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian FUCK.
Show threadMichaelApr 20, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian Didn't they already do this? I could have sworn they banned that kind of thing for being advertiser unfriendly. This is such a moronic, shortsighted thing to do.
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Apr 20, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian really feels like Silicon Valley wants to close down the Internet into various walled gardens that the majority of people won't have full access to.
But they'll take everything we've ever posted on the Internet and then sell it back to us, and we let them? 🤦‍♂️
Show threadfruit treesApr 20, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian Agreed. However, I would also like to point out that anonymous uploading has been used by bad actors including Junk mail organizations.
Sucks all those great memes, infographics, and other useful information will be lost.
Maybe a bunch of registered users should collaborate to preserve all the educational material. (I'm not kidding).
Show threadRyeApr 20, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian the writing was on the wall the moment they added 'social' features a few years back
Show threadVagan FlossApr 20, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian
This Imgur?
Show thread#[deprecated] QyriadApr 20, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian this is a reprehensible amount of culture to burn, fucking hell.
Show threadXavier Ashe Apr 20, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian Do any of the internet archives keep a copy of imgur pics?
Show threadErosBlog Bacchus has moved!Apr 20, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian #pornocalypse
Show thread[MESSAGE ME TO FOLLOW] greenApr 20, 2023
oh hey look @cstross wasn't this part of the plot of Glasshouse? :|
Show threadCharlie StrossApr 20, 2023
@troodon Oh, DRM in general was part of that! And proprietary file formats, and region encoding, and protocol churn on a period of years or decades. (Got any Word docs from 1995-2000 you want to open? Good luck with that!)
Show threadona [she/they]Apr 20, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian they can use archive.org to recover the images at least...
Show threadTerrorBiteApr 21, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian my third-party Reddit app's default image upload method is anonymous Imgur. I have an account and have had for a very long time, but there's currently no way to log into that account in that Reddit app. A lot of my more recent Reddit posts are going to disappear (the oldest ones I used my account for).
Show threadDym SohinApr 21, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian execute order XXX
Show threadalex Apr 21, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian @thememesniper so all the porn previously hosted there is just gonna disappear?
Show thread🌲Apr 21, 2023
@CyberpunkLibrarian Good, maybe people will finally learn their lesson about depending on a free hosting service

Doubt it though