On Monday, Tumblr announced that it would start banning all pornographic images, GIFs, and videos on its site. In part it's platform's attempt to get back in Apple's good graces after its algorithms failed to filter out child porn and Apple booted Tumblr from its app store. It's admittedly difficult to effectively regulate a social media platform, especially if like Twitter and Facebook , for example, you don't want to take responsibility for either the content you host or your own corporate actions. Tumblr's new porn ban, for example, is already targeting benign content , while it's still up to users to find and report hate speech. But the ban is also part of a pattern we've been seen several times in just the last year: Namely, punishing the hell out of consenting, adult sex workers who rely on online platforms for their livelihood and safety. On its face, the new policy is supposed to protect children by cracking down on child porn.