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Tumblr already bans blogs which encourage self-harm, but, in common with most other social networks, only acts when infringing accounts are brought to its attention.
A Tumblr spokeswoman said the site was "deeply committed to protecting our users' freedom of expression", but that it draws lines "around a few categories of content we consider damaging to our community, including blogs that encourage self-harm".
Just last month, Twitter also updated its policies on tweets that encourage self-harm and suicide.
Secret's Community Guidelines also warn users not to bully or make posts that encourage self-harm.
The update follows an announcement by Twitter Safety last week that users can now report profiles, tweets and direct messages that encourage self-harm and suicide.
In April 2012, it also updated its content policy to ban accounts, images or hashtags that glorify, promote or encourage self-harm.
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Let me tell you what this entails, since your statement blaming advocates for suicide attempts – of actually encouraging self-harm – suggests you are clearly unaware.
Ian Rintoul, a long-time refugee advocate and spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition, said he had "never seen any evidence, not a single example" of advocates encouraging self-harm.
Blucher is a former Save the Children worker who was among a group sacked in 2014 after being accused of encouraging self-harm.
The Moss review found no conclusive evidence that the staff members had facilitated protest activity, encouraged self-harm or fabricated assault allegations, and called on the immigration department to review the decision to remove them.
Philip Moss, a former integrity commissioner, said he had uncovered no conclusive information that contract service providers on Nauru had facilitated protest activity, encouraged self-harm or fabricated assault allegations.
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