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We didn’t know it then, but that little warning was a kind of farewell. A reminder that the wild, weird, unregulated internet was already being boxed up — one blurred post at a time.

And millions of us clicked through anyway. this tumblr may contain sensitive media

Tumblr’s algorithm couldn’t tell the difference between a Renaissance painting and something explicit. So it blurred both. And in doing so, it taught a generation of internet users something uncomfortable: moderation tools, when built carelessly, don’t just filter — they erase. We didn’t know it then, but that little

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