i am importing my tumblr blogs (all of them. yeah) to wordpress now! but don’t worry – if i don’t make it past tomorrow (which i should) you can find me there, plus i’ll remake and come back better than ever babey!!!!
In response to the NSFW ban being enacted by Tumblr Staff, on December 17th 2018 I propose that we all log off of our Tumblr accounts for 24 hours.
The lack of respect and communication between staff and users is stark. Users have been begging staff to delete the porn bot outbreak, which has plagued the website for well over a year. The porn bots oftentimes send people asks and messages, trying to get them to go to a website full of viruses. They also spam advertisements on others posts.
Users have also begged that Tumblr ban neo-nazis, child porn, and pedophiles, all which run rampant on the site. The site/app got so bad that it was taken off the app store.
However, instead of answering the users, Tumblr has instead taken the liberty to ban all NSFW content, regardless of age. But users have already run into issues of their SFW content being marked as sensitive and being flagged as NSFW, not allowing them to share their work.
Not only does this discriminate again content creators, but it also discriminates against sex workers. Disgustingly, the ban will be enacted on December 17 which is also International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
This ban is disgusting, and while I (and plenty of others) welcome porn bots and child porn being banned, the Tumblr filtration system is broken. It tags artistic work’s nipples as NSFW (when it is art), it tags SFW art as NSFW (when it is not), and does not stop the porn bots, neo-nazis and dozens of other issues.
This ban is discriminatory. This ban is ineffective. This ban is unacceptable.
To protest, log off of your Tumblr account for the entirety of December 17th. Log off at 12 am EST or 9PM PST and stay off for 24 hours. Don’t post. Don’t log on. Don’t even visit the website. Don’t give them that sweet ad revenue.
Tumblr’s stock has already taken a hard hit. Let’s make it tank. Maybe then they will listen to the users.
ya’ll, just in case you forgot/somehow missed it, a bunch of peeps are planning to not be on tumblr all day on the 17th in protest of the new system being put in place – the plan being to make a lot of noise about our annoyance on other social media, so staff knows we’re not just leaving, we’re actively complaining.
I’ll be participating as well, so I’ll be gone from here all day tomorrow! see u on the 18th, friends!
you know what? fuck this “last legal fingers in his ass sunday” bullshit. after the 17th i’ll keep posting fingers in his ass sunday like a criminal and if mr tumblr wants to stop me he’ll have to break into my fucking house and kill me himself
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