I can never come up with what to say so here are some words that I love from Leonard Cohen:ring the bells that still can ringforget your perfect offering-
there is a crack in everything
that's how the light gets in
~leonard...
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.
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.
TUMBLR, DEAD TO ME. YOUR CENSORSHIP OF ART WITH NUDES IS STUPID, UNNECESSARY, AND DISCRIMINATES AGAINST ARTISTS ON PURPOSE, WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE. ADIOS. I will miss all the good friends here, maybe visit you sometimes. This company is owned and run by the rightwing fundamentalist fascists.
“ Guns, Nazis, everything ok,- female breast >OMG<”
Reblog this if you hate censorship. If you are an artist you will notice that the censorship on flickr [ same company who now own tumblr] rarely censors real porn, but always censors art that might have a nude that is not pornographic. They apparently have a political agenda behind their censorship, which is NOT to protect people from porn, but to get rid of artists.
And dead to me. The censorship is done by robots anyway. Not even nudes half the time. Idiots. the right wing fundamentalist fascist 1% who control everything now are paying for this. Fight them!
Good morning! I am absolutely shocked finding that years and years of work/photos I posted on my site, not having any indecent subject, just dissapeared… Definitely, this is unfair. I am surprised and - honestly - disappointed :((((.
Check you archives for posts flagged as sensitive! I found 30 photos flagged that I am having reviewed. The photos were of an empty hallway, a cat, birds. trees, flowers, sculptures, clouds, smoke, the sun, and shadows. You don’t want your site flagged for deletion because of a stupid bot program.
And. When I go to my archive. Almost all of it is gone!
Reblog this if you hate censorship. If you are an artist you will notice that the censorship on flickr [ same company who now own tumblr] rarely censors real porn, but always censors art that might have a nude that is not pornographic. They apparently have a political agenda behind their censorship, which is NOT to protect people from porn, but to get rid of artists.
