Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, December 3rd, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough. Today,

Tumblr Bands Adult content. Is Apple going to sit on the 5G sidelines?

Uber has apparently held talks about acquiring either Bird or Lyme.

A new self-driving car yardstick, and resetting your web browser to

square one.

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. Right around lunchtime today, Tumblr announced that it will be permanently

banning all-adult content on its platform beginning December 17th.

Tumblr is apparently emailing users who have posted such content in the past and told them that the algorithms will soon make that stuff go away completely. You might recall that recently Tumblr's

app was taken down from the iOS App Store because apparently a bunch of

child porn was discovered in private Tumblr blogs.

We'll have to wait for details to be sure,

but this sure looks like oath,

which is the owner of Tumblr,

basically felt like whatever that child porn problem was, it was too difficult to solve completely so they were just like

ban it all and perhaps burn it all down.

I say that because if you're not familiar with Tumblr, I think you can think of it as the

goth or theater kid in high school, the emo kid, the shy, sensitive, emotional, artistic kid among the high school crowd of

social networks. I actually don't have time to flesh out that analogy further like

who in high school Facebook represents, maybe the jocks or who Instagram

represents, maybe the cool rich kids etc.

Though you can knock yourself out on the subreddit if you want to take that analogy all the way.

But take my word for it. Tumblr has perhaps the most unique and uniquely expressive community of

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