Censorship strikes again. These are bad times to express yourself without being tracked.

He Imgur image storeone of the most used in Reddit and other forums, announces that he is going to eliminate all the pornographic contentas well as the billions of images and memes up in shape anonymous. Thus, more than a decade of Internet memory is lost.

Imgur was created in 2009 by Alan Schaaf, with the aim of offering the Reddit community, the largest forums in the worldthe possibility of upload and link images to use in forums and social networks, in a simple way.

In his heyday they came to upload to Imgur a million images a dayand was used by more than 70 million users. So in over a decade, we talk about billions of photos, drawings, memes, and other content. most it will disappear forever.

Imgur censors itself

Imgur advertise on your blog delete all images with “nudity and pornographic content“, as well as those images that they were uploaded anonymously, without being associated with a user account. The deletion will take place on 15 th of May.

It is true that Imgur contains a lot of pornographic content, mainly photos that are used on Reddit porn forums. But they are marked as hiddenand are only seen in the corresponding forums, or if the user explicitly indicates that they want to see this type of content.

For a long time Imgur maintains a platform with a gallery and lists of memes and images that can be linked, where the pornography It is forbidden. As the press release explains, users of this gallery received warnings of unauthorized content if they saw an inappropriate photo in another forum.

So they have decided to cut their losses, and ban all the nudes and the explicit content on the entire platform. They continue to allow”artistic nudes“, which will surely be a source of problems, because it is difficult to define when a nude is “artistic”.

As for the delete images uploaded anonymously, without user accountAlthough they are not pornographic, it is probably because they cannot review all of them, so before some suspicious ones are lost, they prefer to delete everything.

the wave of Puritanism which already deleted all the pornographic content of Tumblr, it also reaches Imgur. May 15 all images will be deleted of nudes and pornographyas well as the content uploaded anonymous. From cat memes to all kinds of photos that have been used in countless forums Redditwho are going to be very touched by this decision.