5 THOUSAND MORE NEEDED!!

An Open Letter to Tumblr about the Adult Content Ban and How it is Hurting Your Users:

Recently, Tumblr was removed from the Apple app store due to an incident involving child pornography. This incident is incredibly unfortunate, but it doesn’t stand alone. Tumblr was also removed from the app store due to the large influx of porn bots and pornographic spam, users claiming to be proud to be pedophiles, blatant Nazism, racists who are not deleted for sending hate and harassing users, and more. I myself reported someone for harassing me, but because I had blocked the person and couldn’t access the messages where they harassed me, they were still able to send me anonymous asks. Your support staff, with back doors to the website (presumably), claimed they could not access the messages, and I was left SOL. Many features on this website do nothing to actually protect your users from harassment, racism, homophobia, transphobia, Nazis, pedophiles, predators, porn bots, and more. 

You claim in your statement to us that you “have been working on these problems for a long time”. This is blatantly untrue. Please do not lie to us and patronize us. We’ve been here. We’ve seen you do nothing over, and over, and over again. 

We complained to you for months and months about the rampant porn bots, and you did nothing except add a report button on mobile which only reported sensitive content or spam at best. You could have addressed this problem with an effective algorithm, but you did not. We complained to you about being harassed and sent hate speech for being LGBT+, and you did nothing. We complained to you about blogs being randomly deleted, and sometimes you’ve restored them, other times you have not. We complained to you that there were people proudly claiming to be “Minor Attracted Persons”, or pedophiles, and you did nothing. We complained to you about people proudly claiming to be white supremacists, and you did nothing. All of these things are “against the community guidelines”, and yet over and over, you have not found effective ways to handle these problems or suppress the feeling of welcome that these users claim to get here. You have had a long time to work on these problems, but you haven’t addressed them. To say you have is untrue. 

 Multiple other social networking websites, such as Wordpress, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and others have effectively dealt with rampant pornography, racism, pedophilia, and other problems without causing massive issues for their users who are not misusing the platform. They are continuing to find new, effective ways to deal with these issues without causing problems for their userbase as a whole.  There is no reason that you are unable to do this effectively other than that you wanted to do it quickly. You have once again chosen your stock holders over your users. And we have had enough. 

You have already started to ban “Adult” content with a new algorithm. Here are screenshots of just a fraction of the posts you have flagged as containing adult content:

Your new system of simply tackling everything at once is not working. At all. And each of these screenshots is proof of your utter incompetence. None of these posts contain pornographic acts, “female nipples”, or any community violation of any kind. 

We, the users, have been asking you for months to deal with these problems - particularly, the porn bots and bots that spam. In order to block a bot from a side blog, I have to do it manually, even though they are in my side blog’s feed. This is a huge issue for mobile - only users. They keep cropping up in droves, taking over our posts and tricking google into making it look like a legitimate blog linked to a pornographic website. We have complained to you for months and months now, and your solution to simply “ban all adult content” is ineffective. I agree that children should not be able to access pornography - but this is not how you tackle a porn bot problem. Your system is utterly useless, allows for racists, pedophiles, porn bots, and Nazis to remain untouched. It also harms sex workers and real people who may use this website for some forms of adult content responsibly. Moreover, as seen above, it harms plenty of users who have in no way violated your terms of service.

 If you keep this up, you threaten your website and company as a whole. Many of us are backing up our blogs and planning places to go to. 

You already have a content filter for “sensitive” content (content inappropriate for younger viewers). You could have improved this, instead of attacking your entire user base. It seems to be a very lazy “solution”, if you could call it one at all, and one that harms your entire userbase.

If you are going to keep this filter in place and make Tumblr, a website that has never been known for being family friendly and has never claimed to be, you are going to lose millions of your users. We are already planning our exodus. It isn’t hard to follow. Censor us, and we will go somewhere else. That is not a threat. It is a promise. 

Sincerely, 

The users of your website. 

@staff @support

my kosa post where I was just complaining is now my most popular post and I’ve deleted it now bc I’m sick of it clogging my notifs but also it included some misinformation. looking back I don’t believe it says anywhere in the bill that kosa will make the internet require ID before use. it’s still an awful bill rife with censorship shit but do your research kids. sorry for fearmongering, but do still rally against the bill as there will still be mass amounts of censorship and breaches of privacy!!

Read the bill:

congress.gov

Text - S.1409 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Kids Online Safety Act

Text for S.1409 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Kids Online Safety Act

!PLEASE READ!

I see a lot of people saying to stop kosa and then giving no info about what kosa is.

So here are some sites to get educated about it- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online

https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/about/issues/kids-online-safety-act

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/15/kids-online-safety-act-kosa-senate/

Please lmk if there are any helpful sites that you want me to add :]

REBLOG IF IT’S OKAY FOR PEOPLE TO SLIP INTO YOUR MESSAGES TO TALK ABOUT THE PROBLEMS THAT THEY ARE FACING AND THAT YOU’RE WILLING TO HELP AND SUPPORT THEM AS MUCH AS YOU CAN

OKAY people, I need your ATTENTION! It doesn’t matter if you’re a Reylo, Rinnrey, Finnpoe, Finnrose etc. (actually it doesn’t matter if you’re a fan of Star Wars at all)

I just saw a post that completely took my breath. Not in a good way.

Said post calls for people to “reblog if you want Adam Driver to suffer even MORE [from] anxiety for being an UGLY, islamophobic, UGLY, imperialist HIDEOUS person” I don’t even know what so say about this post I am in shock.

(In this post there’s also a blog -> (x) linked in which they reason their hatred towards Adam (I suppose, I only saw the first post.. I just couldn’t look at all their hate any longer)

I am simply speechless. I really have no words for this. WHY would you make someones anxiety worse? Because you don’t like a character that he is portraying? Because he stated that he went to the marines after 9/11 and you just assume it’s because he is islamophobic? (I thought I’d let you know by now that theres a huge difference between muslims and terrorists) And the most banal reason of them all.. because you think he is UGLY?

UGLY?

And the shocking thing was that 180 people or so actually reblogged that bullshit.

People, if you don’t agree with that horrible and extremly mean post, REBLOG mine. Reblog, if you think that Adam Driver is fucking beautiful, inside and out, and that he dosnn’t deserve people wanting to make his anxiety worse!

(Note: click here for the post)

jm: [enters the room with the sparkling jacket] look i’m shining!

jk: [staring at jm’s smile] yeah you are

tae: he’s talking about the jacket

jk: oh

COMPILATION OF WHEN JUNGKOOK CUTELY STUTTERS TO MAKE YOU WANT TO PROTECT HIM MORE THAN EVER | violetguk

jin is so cute, breath if y’all agree. 

I refuse to allow anyone to forget that jk…

Sits like this sometimes

Has this phone case

Smiles like this when he tries to stifle a laugh

Always wears oversized hoodies/shirts (and then walks like a cartoon character with his arms like that)

Puts his shoulders up when he gets excited, laughs, finds something cute, etc.

Checks his abs after he eats

Gets Jungshook

Had his hair like a sprout outta his head like this once

Pouts his little lips out

Is a baby :)