When even the mainstream media sees that @staff is okay with nazis while getting offended at the female nipple.
So as we know, Karp sold us to Yahoo, but Yahoo is owned by Verizon. But did you know that Verizon is in bed with notoriously right wing *cough* fascist *cough* Clear Channel?
You know who is really into your new policy? You know who is showing up in my notes to defend you? Nazis. Shitty little white boy Nazis who are thrilled that you’re running off and alienating enormous swaths of your users.
So you’re really doing a great job, and you can feel really proud of your employer’s decisions. If you’re lucky, you’re going to make Tumblr as awesome for Nazis and their supporters as Twitter! GREAT WORK, TEAM!
I just got a dm from my friend and body positivity advocate @barbellbro-baggins-blr . He has used his blog to document his own body acceptance journey, and has inspired so many people to do the same. He inspired me when I first joined like 4 years ago. He just gave me his email and Facebook url so we can keep in touch in case his blog is deleted.
I only recently found people on this site who post about chronic pain, something I’ve been relatively recently diagnosed with, only for the tag to be wiped from the tag search option and tons of blogs and posts gone. Many in the disabled and chronically ill community feel that Tumblr is attacking their (our) place to exist as a community @staff .
Countless artists and writers are finding their posts and blogs flagged or deleted – even completely sfw content – and appealing flagged posts has brought little to no resolution. Fandom creators are finding the same.
I know one user who is dying – her organs are literally failing and she uses Tumblr to desperately try to bring in some income, since she can’t afford her prescribed medicine even with generic, and all the coupons and other things you can get online to take off $20. I have no doubt many like her are in similar situations and have had their posts deleted, cutting off avenues for income.
Anti-nazi posts have been deleted and flagged, while i can search for neonazis, their recruitment posts, and their hate speech that clearly violates tumblr’s new user rules, with disturbing ease.
@staff has made a lot of blunders with their updates to “improve” user experience. But this one is quite possibly the worst. It feels quite intentional regardless of what the CEO claims.
This camel’s back has broken. This is unacceptable. It’s wrong. And it reveals a disturbing trend about censorship. Not to mention censorship without ethics, and social media that has no regard for its users. But they need us.
I’m not sure what we should do. Past boycotts have not done much to sway corporate. Especially from relatively small blogs. But maybe if we can get some big blogs too it’ll do something. But one day of inactivity won’t even make them blink.
I’m considering saving the posts in my queues, and deleting my queues entirely, deleting the app from my phone and not using Tumblr at all for the next couple weeks. Anyone with me?
If you decide to do this, or think it’s a good idea please reblog so more people can see it
deleted a bunch of chronic pain and chronic illness posts from blogs they’ve left (like mine)
This isn’t just about ‘oh no you can’t look at people fucking anymore’ (even though lots of sex workers are losing their means of supporting themselves). This goes a lot further, with a lot more chilling effects.
The sexualizing of things like ‘top surgery’ or declaring all ‘trans’ tagged things to be … sexual… is really, REALLY fucked up. Never mind the fact that ‘chronic pain’ had NOTHING to do with sexiness, and we’ve been given no explanation as to why disabled people were considered acceptable collateral damage.
ALSO I had a post flagged earlier today for a cartoon picture of Mario in a bathing suit. Mario, from Super Mario Brothers.
Someone else reported a picture of a cartoon scorpion with a hard hat on being flagged as pornography. Tagging things as ‘queer’ or ‘gay’ gets them flagged NSFW. (Hey, guess what I’d been tagging my t-shirts, because they’re pride stuff? Oh right. Queer. Gay. Pride.)
This is a fucking problem, let’s not blow it off.
I know some people are too young (or simply weren’t involved in fandom back then) to remember what went down with livejournal and a couple of other sites “back in the day”, but it all started out as “it’s okay, we’re just removing the nasty porn”, and then “okay well, just make sure you put your porn behind a cut, no, wait jk you need to host it externally, a link is fine, maybe” and pretty much devolved swiftly into “actually sweety, LGBT content is inherently NSFW by default because it might make the kiddies gay if we expose them to it, so y’all need to leave now byyyeeee”.
Like…that happened. And it took nearly a decade for the fandom spaces to recover and stabilize and to get to the point where LGBT content creators could host their content without being told “you’re not welcome here” and I’m just sitting here, watching as youtube demonetizes LGBT content creators, and Facebook flags up LGBT ads as “inappropriate” and now tumblr is going through the queer and gay tags and just mass blanketing it as inappropriate, while actual pornbots and nazis wind up in my recommended feed.
Like I am uncomfortable y’all. I am looking around at everything I’ve built and all the friends I’ve made and I know we’re all looking for the next safe space to jump to while hoping we don’t lose each other overnight like “the olden days” where you’d wake up and your fave blogger was just gone.
And usually it was because they’d drawn or written something as simple yet explicit as a kiss. It was just the wrong kind of kiss.
So yea, the sky is not falling, but the ice under our feet sure is making worrying sounds.
All of this is exactly why I’m gonna be saving all of my queued posts, deleting my queue, deleting the app, and leaving Tumblr for a couple weeks. Please join me. Boycotting for 1 day won’t faze them for a second. They don’t care about us, they care about their profit and their bottom line. But tons of users being completely inactive, for a couple WEEKS? That’ll get some attention. If you decide to join me, please reblog
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