Verizon Archives - Liberal Resistance

WordPress Folks Buy Tumblr

By libresist | September 11, 2019

So much for moralizing prudes. Tumblr, the blogging platform that was burning up the track until it was acquired by Yahoo, has once more been sold, this time to Automattic Inc., the folks who do the WordPress online publishing tool. (The present author is using WordPress to write this piece.) The sale is reportedly at…

How To Lose Money On Tumblr

By Michael Jay Tucker, Managing Editor | August 13, 2019

So this is amusing. You recall how Tumblr shut down all its “adult oriented” sites? Well, guess what. It was a huge mistake. Users scattered to the winds and now Verizon, which bought Yahoo, which had bought Tumblr, has had to sell the blogging site at fire sale prices. Specifically, Verizon has just passed it…

Tumblr: The Purge Continues

By libresist | December 18, 2018

Editor’s note: This story is already out of date. It was written yesterday afternoon (17 December). However, by the time it was published, events had already moved beyond it. Specifically, Verizon has admitted that its purchase of Tumblr and AOL was largely a mistake. In fact, it has said that its content creation subsidiary, Oath,…

Verizon: Tumblr was a mistake

By libresist | December 17, 2018

Verizon, the owner of the Tumblr blogging platform as well as of AOL, now says that its purchases of the two content providing platforms was basically useless. Tumblr had been one of the most successful of the blogging sites on the Internet. However, in recent weeks, Tumblr said that all “adult” material (i.e., erotic) would…

My Own Tumblr Story

By Michael Jay Tucker, Managing Editor | December 15, 2018

You’ll recall that Liberal Resistance dot Net has been steadily (some would say obsessively) following the recent affair of Tumblr’s decision to ban all “adult” material. The story means a lot to us because we’re opposed to censorship. Everyone here is a journalist, or a writer, or an essayist, or an artist…and free expression is…

More On The Decline Of Tumblr

By libresist | December 14, 2018

As you will recall, we’ve been covering Tumblr’s recent (and unfortunate) decision to ban all “adult” material from its service. We’re appalled because it is pure censorship, and we were stunned that anyone at Tumblr would let it happen. However, we’ve learned that Tumblr has been going downhill for quite some time, now. Bonnie Kristian,…