Shitty Tumblr pornbot inception

Cory Doctorow 10:09 am Tue Dec 11, 2018

It started when Tumblr flagged one of my retrospective posts (a five year old post about the right of British schoolkids to opt out of fingerprinting) as porn.

So I made another post, making fun of the pornbot's shitty judgment. It got flagged.

Undaunted, I made another post complaining about the pornbot's shitty judgment about its own shitty judgment. Guess what happened?

Naturally, I couldn't let that slide. YOU WON'T EVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!

I can keep this up all day, you know!

Who says you can't win an argument with a computer?

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