adamussutekh:

adamussutekh:

ocean-in-my-rebel-soul:

queenology:

Now this is interesting

Article: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mjxg/apple-tumblr-porn-nsfw-adult-content-banned

YES!! I LIKE THIS TAKE!!

Basically, because I know Mobile is bad with links, the article points out hat the broad, “sfw only, no titties allowed” wave on the internet in recent years is largely due to Apple’s absolute stranglehold on the App Store. Apple has strict guidelines about NSFW content that choke creators right out of mainstream social media, even on sites like Reddit, for users of their products: 

But there are fewer and fewer mainstream sites and services that support porn and adult content, and much of that attitude has grown out of Apple’s strict controls over the App Store and the iOS ecosystem. Steve Jobs famously suggested that “folks who want porn can buy an Android phone,” and Apple has repeatedly leveraged its unprecedented power over millions of smartphones to sanitize the apps that are available on iPhones. Apple does not allow apps “that contain user generated content that is frequently pornographic.” In 2016, Apple famously deleted all third-party Reddit apps that allowed users to toggle NSFW posts on and off; even now, it is impossible to access porn on an iOS Reddit app unless you jump through various hoops.

remember though that this anger isn’t about Being Horny On Main, it’s about sex workers, their platforms and followers, NSFW creators and their art, and adult content communities that are continually being shoved out of spaces they created in recent years: 

Tumblr’s leadership seems to believe that the community using Tumblr for adult content is the same as any other porn site—showing a serious disconnect with how its users actually interact and connect on its own platform. “We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community,” he wrote.

The value of Tumblr for NSFW creators and fans was in the autonomy to curate something original, and the freedom to express and share what they’re into—something that can’t be replaced by algorithmically-suggested porn on the rest of the internet.

it was mentioned before somewhere else, but 20% of Tumblr’s traffic is brought in by content they’re now flagging as “adult” 

This is yet another example of a platform ignoring adult content when it helps the platform flourish, and then leaving those users out to dry when it’s time to crack down for some monetary gain or face-saving. In addition to being a terrible way to treat your user base, banning adult content on Tumblr will stifle a lot of creativity.

and of course, Apple is also one of the companies that has repeatedly come under fire for censoring lgbtq/queer identities on their sites, the app store, and also caved to russia’s anti-lgbtq policies like a stick of rotten bamboo

The communities that will feel this change the most will be the already-marginalized. “Tumblr banning adult content is a huge loss for the LGBTQ community, especially those with overlapping marginalized identities,” Kitty Stryker, a queer porn performer and consent activist, told Motherboard in an email. “For many, that’s the one place we could find porn that represents us, made by indie performers who created their own content outside of an often racist, transmisogynist, fatphobic industry. Tumblr was where our content could exist without pushing us into the restrictions of a misogynist, male dominated workplace.”

feminismandmedia:

lunishel:

grimly68:

officialwadewillson:

Lmfao

Fun fact: she left Yahoo citing the staggering incompetence of management and development teams. She was brought in to salvage Yahoo and they proceeded to ignore her and belittle her every chance she got.

Sounds pretty classic. Bring in a woman to save the day, ignore her and continue to fuck it up. Then try to lay the blame on her when it fails.

We learnt about this concept in class, it’s called The Glass Precipice, also sometimes known as The Glass Cliff. 

Women are often promoted in failing companies or risky CEO positions, that way, when something fails, they receive the blame. In these positions, they are often not listened to, belittled, and ignored, They also face more media attention for their failures than male counterparts. 

butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway:

transmascbastard:

Most people criticizing sex positivity don’t seem to know what it even is, can y’all keep this in mind before putting those types of posts on my dash?

Like… sex positivity is supporting people engaging in healthy and safe sex acts. It’s spreading sex ed and shutting down anyone who shames others for having sex for any reason (doing it “too much,” doing it “the wrong way”, etc)

When you see posts that are like “let’s move on from sex positivity and start supporting healthy sexuality and blah blah blah”, OP is either deeply misinformed on what sex positivity is or is trying to mislead you, probably the former tbh but some folks out there do have motivation to deceive people on this subject (that motivation being a desire to control peoples sex lives, so we’re more likely looking at radical feminists and conservative Christians in that scenario, but also please don’t assume malice when ignorance is just as likely)

Before you criticize something, please know what it is

Also fun fact, sex positivity is pretty fuckin explicit about the idea that the ability for a person to NOT consent to sex was just as critical as their right to consent without shame. So don’t buy into lies about it only pushing people into yeses either.

getawaysleighmp4:

veronica-lodge:

ARE YOUR POSTS NOT SHOWING UP? THIS SHOULD FIX IT:

so as this post says, if you’r finding your blog is all jumbled, old posts popping up to the front, new posts not showing up at all, etc it is because of those posts being flagged and then unflagged. all you have to do is open them to edit and save them again and they’ll go back. 

i just wanted to make this separate post to add that once you do that all your new posts will go back to being visible at the top of your blog as they should be i just did it and now everything’s fine on my blog. 

PLEASE TRY THIS AND REBLOG THIS TOO

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

feminismandmedia:

janes-gang:

all-da-fandoms:

thelogicalloganipus:

thelogicalloganipus:

thelogicalloganipus:

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:

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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

They flagged this post immediately and I’ve submitted it for review… this is… quite a week.

If you believe these words, reblog it, please. I want this to be right in their face because I couldn’t email them directly. 

I have further proof because fucking porn showed up on my dash board.

@staff 

PLEASE REBLOG. PLEASE DONT IGNORE THIS

Don’t forget in all of this, to tag @support. I remember reading awhile back that @staff is mainly for announcements. Support is the real place to go.

Mod Bethany

@support

wigglebox:

surfacage:

Spread this message. If you’ve had content flagged you need to check if Tumblr has muted your blog. Your posts will still show up on the dash of followers but your most recent posts will be from hours ago (up to 48 hours prior) on your actual blog URL. Make a test post and post it to your blog. Go to your blog url in an incognito window and see if the post you just made can be seen. If it can you’re good. If not Tumblr has muted your blog.

Check your blogs lads. Just in case.

what the fuck. I’m muted? ???????? i didn’t see any content flagged posts though! wtf!!!

naomimakesart:

I’m finally doing my first giveaway everyone!

Prize: 1 drawing of 2 characters, half-body. 

  • Pose can be romantic or platonic
  • You can choose to have a blank background or have a colored background for free! 

How to enter:

  • 1 reblog = 1 entry, reblog as many times as you like! 
  • You have to be following me to have a valid entry. 

Rules 

  • Request has to be tasteful. If the request makes me uncomfortable, I will inform you that you need to modify your request
  • Original Characters are allowed (I cannot draw anthro characters, but ears and tails are okay!) I am going to need references, and descriptions so be prepared with those!
  • Characters from any fandom are allowed, if I’m not familiar with the fandom I will let you know and will ask for references if needed! 

I will announce the winner on January 1st and tag them in the announcement post! Good luck everyone, I’m excited to finally do this for my Tumblr followers! 

naomimakesart:

I’m finally doing my first giveaway everyone!

Prize: 1 drawing of 2 characters, half-body. 

  • Pose can be romantic or platonic
  • You can choose to have a blank background or have a colored background for free! 

How to enter:

  • 1 reblog = 1 entry, reblog as many times as you like! 
  • You have to be following me to have a valid entry. 

Rules 

  • Request has to be tasteful. If the request makes me uncomfortable, I will inform you that you need to modify your request
  • Original Characters are allowed (I cannot draw anthro characters, but ears and tails are okay!) I am going to need references, and descriptions so be prepared with those!
  • Characters from any fandom are allowed, if I’m not familiar with the fandom I will let you know and will ask for references if needed! 

I will announce the winner on January 1st and tag them in the announcement post! Good luck everyone, I’m excited to finally do this for my Tumblr followers!