When did freedom of expression suddenly become an online crime? When did an attack on a specific subset of any group ever work to the benefit of any institution?
In this bloggers humble opinion, Tumblr’s December 17th forced genocide of Adult Content blogs is just another example of how our society is slipping backwards in its level of tolerance towards anything that is different, preferring to have this type of content hidden away, and marked with a scarlet letter of intolerance and shame.
Are there issues revolving around certain types of blogs Yes. Child pornography and other unacceptably content is abhorrent to all. Is Tumblr going after those specific types of blogs? No. Are they setting up a system that blocks minors from accessing adult content blogs? No. They are preferring to follow a simplistic “nuke it all” approach rather than address the overall problem. Taking a M.A.D (mutually assured destruction) approach, can only end in one way, for without adult content, Tumblr will die off.
So my friends and followers(93k amazing individuals), I challenge you to reblog this note, and challenge Tumblr’s decision. Perhaps, if enough of us stand up and protest some good will come of it. Resist, and fight the good, and honourable, fight.
not sure it will do any good but here goes
Well said.
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Agreed !
We’ll said my friend
Love it . Reblog it. Grandpa
Couldn’t have put it better! Well said!
Reblog..Reblog..Reblog…🖤🖤🖤
Realistically, this wasn’t Tumblr’s decision, it was Verizon’s. Verizon owns Yahoo, Yahoo owns Tumblr, and when the boss’s boss speaks, the lowly worker listens. That being said, this change to Tumblr has apparently been a financial one…Verizon won’t advertise alongside porn any more than Apple will, and neither online petitions nor posts like this one have much chance of changing that. The only thing that MIGHT is time…time for Tumblr’s user count to (potentially) fall, and time for Verizon & Yahoo’s stockholders & marketing departments to see negative effects (if any) to their bottom lines that might be attributed to those effects.
I’d also like to point out that society has NEVER been accepting of sex or pornography, or kink, so framing Tumblr’s actions towards our community here as “just another example of how our society is slipping backwards in its level of tolerance towards anything that is different, preferring to have this type of content hidden away, and marked with a scarlet letter of intolerance and shame.“ is a fairly ignorant statement…it has ALWAYS been that way.
Tumblr wants to take away all adult content on the platform, abandoning a large majority of it’s userbase which uses the site for this exact matter. Please sign the above petition if you would like to keep tumblr the way it is. They need to be shown that they will lose a HUGE amount of their traffic if they’re too carry this through.
