Give you three to one that Tumblr’s “we’re banning adult content but will allow discussion of relationships and sexuality” policy is going to end up being strangely selective about what kinds of relationships and sexuality are exempted.
Hi! We’re @staff, and since we got actual financial repercussions for not taking care of our unconscionable CP problems we finally stopped dragging our feet and did it!
But oh, we’re not going to just stop at taking care of that, we’re going to go waaay farther than any other website with a functioning CP filter and do something nobody asked nor expected us to do! Because a naked human body is the same thing as child sexual abuse, right? And all depicted sex is criminal, not just that form of violence and abuse against children that we should have taken care of ages ago, right?
See? See? We learn! And it’s not like anyone makes their living from drawing regular ol’ human anatomy and normal human interactions and uses tumblr as their major means of reaching clients!
Yes, this will surely cover up redeem our failures on the whole CP thing we didn’t do that everyone is talking about and we really wish they would stop talking about…
like notice how nowhere in that lil staff update did they mention getting rid of nazi or white supremacist content. they still get to keep theyre racist and neofascist userbase while appearing to do something useful
People who like rocks see cool rocks everywhere. People who like birds see interesting birds everywhere. The tree on your yard could be an exceptional specimen. The world around you could be amazing and magical, but you aren’t enough of a nerd to see it.
I gave my mum Alexandra Horowitz’s On Looking: Eleven Walks Through Expert Eyes for her birthday this year, it’s a book that revolves around this idea: the author invites 11 specialists in different things to walk around a boring city block with her one after the other so they can point out to her the things they see, that she doesn’t notice. There’s an expert in typography talking about what the variety of fonts on urban signs can tell you about the city’s history, an entomologist pointing out all the urban insects no one pays attention to, a geologist, a sound engineer…
staff is too incompetent to properly moderate their site but also too incompetent to properly kill it off so I think in the end very little will change, but just in case it all goes to shit after all you will be able to find me carving my posts into the walls of a nearby cavern
QueerGalaxies 