Options are being brought to us, now. Read this open letter then peruse their option. -Wolf
OPEN LETTER
To:
Tumblr
Jeff D’Onofrio, Tumblr CEO
New York City, New York, United States
Dear Jeff D’Onofrio,
On December 17, Tumblr will be banning porn from its site.
By banning “adult content” from your website in truth you categorically ban sex workers regardless of how they are using your platform. You cut them off from the ability to build an audience for their work, and what’s even worse, you declare their very existence as obscene.
Tumblr allows every content creator, artist, or small entrepreneur to build an audience and communicate with this audience at any moment in time - if you do not work in the adult industry of course.
Many brands use social media to sell products. Social media and eCommerce are interlocked. You take this now away from every adult content creator around the globe. And that is wrong.
You mentioned in a blog post titled “A better, more positive Tumblr”:
“There is no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.”
You are wrong: There is a shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content, in particular when it comes to shadowbanning and the ability to also advertise on these sites.
Look, here is what we do:
Sharesome is a site that welcomes all the people that you just kicked off your platform. You gave them time until December 17th to export a backup of their blog to save their years of work. Meanwhile we will develop an import tool, so they can move to us, and we leave you with all the white supremacist Nazi blogs – because we ban that kind of shit.
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.
I hope the pose is not too suggestive for social media…
Maybe the eyes are a little too fierce and rebellious… I’ll correct that.
I don’t show too much skin so no need to report this image.
Blessed be the Apple, May Tumblr open it.
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As Apple removed Tumblr from the App store for displaying too much adult content, Tumblr decided to remove all adult content.
Instead of trying to find intelligent solution to stop pedopornography and bots sending porn spam, Tumblr just took this crazy, stupid and over conservative move.
I think the most terrifying thing in this situation is that Tumblr is presenting this ban of adult content as a choice to make “a safe place our creative expression…”
Thank you, Tumblr.
This image is of course inspired by the Handmaid’s tale by @therealmargaretatwood and portrayed in the TVshow by @elisabethmossofficial
This image won’t have rewards derived from it… I just felt the need to create it when I saw what was going on with Apple and Tumblr.