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Motherboard also reported that in the wake of SESTA’s passage, Google began reviewing and deleting content directly off the Drive accounts of several of its users.
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I swear on everything that is good and pure in the universe, if they delete any of my writing off my Drive, I will take my RV to DC and dump the shitter directly in front of the Capitol Building.
The platform's CEO wants to focus on creating a "welcoming" environment for its users — by banning the very content that made people feel included to begin with.
minxundertone: So the day is upon us. How do you feel about Tumblr's removal of "adult content"?
Here’s a copypaste from another thing I wrote earlier today:
There’s a strong and dangerous Libertarian ideology that runs deep in Silicon Valley that directly and indirectly supports actions that quite tellingly never affect CIS white hetero men, but have profoundly dangerous and harmful consequences for literally every other group of people.
Through actions like Tumblr’s upcoming ban that will (through post flagging) disproportionately affect LGBTQ people, like Jack Dorsey’s refusal to address the hate and white supremacy on Twitter, like Facebook’s decision to use right-wing anti-Semitic dogwhistles to deflect attention from its systemic privacy violations, like Reddit’s embrace of right-wing and white nationalist users, it is impossible to deny that the decision makers in the board rooms at the biggest social media platforms are at the very least sympathetic to the voices and ideas of white supremacists and misogynists, and at worst in total agreement with their positions. Every choice these people make moves what should be fringe voices and ideas further and further into the mainstream, while they marginalize and punish nonviolent voices that call for justice and equality.
Social media is broken and it’s the fault of the failed leaders at the main social media platforms, who will be remembered with disdain and contempt by history.
This is me signing off for the night. See you guys on the 18th.
In the mean time, DO NOT RUN THAT TAMPERMONKEY SCRIPT. There is something seriously wrong with it. I’m seeing other people reporting that their laptops are destroyed after running it and the developer is no longer responding to messages. I can’t boot mine at all – it can’t even find its own drive. All the drivers are wiped. It’s seriously bad. DO NOT RUN THE TAMPERMONKEY SCRIPT.
that thing maxed out my desktop’s ram usage and i had to force-reboot to get my shit anything like useful again
…many of Tumblr users are women, much or most of the explicit content on Tumblr “was made by, for, and about women,” and that Tumblr’s “all porn” reputation stems from the fact that “women were thrilled to finally find porn that fit their interests, and wanted to foster that community as much as possible.” The decision to squash all that, she says, is gendered, and a major loss.
“I’m just sad, plain and simple,” Stephanie Michelle says. “I built up relationships with my followers … I found artists and writers I fell in love with. Tumblr’s actions reinforce that sex workers and NSFW creators are bad and negative — that they simply shouldn’t exist.”
