by marissamirelesmemmott5615

englishmajor226:

dbdspirit:

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. 

Reblog to signal boost! We must force change.

If you don’t like what’s going on, this is an easy way to protest. Takes zero effort. They may not listen, but it’s fun to watch their stocks plummet.

Source: dbdspirit
by marissamirelesmemmott5615

jeffreygoldblumvevo:

antifaspiderman:

its actually really aggravating that any conversations about problems with tumblr always end up having to be all about fandom and peoples precious erotic fanfiction and fanart bc like “losing fandom history” is not an actual problem in the real world and constantly making it out to be some crisis makes all the complaints about this website seem like a silly gimmick to outsiders. no one pays attention to or cares about the actual problems with this website cuz the public face of the complaints is “fandom freedom is being threatened” and its annoying that that remains the case bc people always hijack the situation to make it about fandom bs.

like its apalling that articles about tumblr give barely a sentence to acknowledge that there were cp rings and pedo positivity blogs operating in the open on tumblr. of the most recent batch of news many only briefly mentioned how much the newest update is going to affect sex workers before dovetailing into paragraphs about fandom artists and the “november purge” (which lmao a lot of those artists were not deleted out of the blue they were notified and it was bc of underage nsfw fanart, p much everyone i follow who was actually deleted by accident got their blog back) and the na/zi problem is only being brought up as a zinger about nipples when there should be articles about radicalization on tumblr the same way journalists have written about facebook and youtube.

like its just so frustrating. the entire website is not all just for fandom. there are sitewide problems that have nothing to do with fandom. the way these problems are being addressed currently is fucking over people who make a living from adult content with adults for adults only and it has nothing, i mean nothing, to do with fandom. any crossover is because everyone on the website is being affected by their terrible algorithm lmao not bc fandom is being targeted.

THANK YOU