Tumblr CEO David Karp with Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. See Also As of this writing, more than 19,000 Tumblr users have signed a Change.org petition asking the blogging network to reinstate searches for blogs containing porn and other adult content. We first saw news of the petition on The Daily Dot. Recently, Tumblr blocked users from searching for blogs posted under hashtag categories like #NSFW (Not Safe For Work), #Gay, #Porn, and so on. Also at play: Many in the Tumblr community are still upset Yahoo bought the blogging network, and see the blocked "NSFW" searches as the first sign of a big scary corporate entity noodling around with an established independent online community...
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