To: Tumblr Jeff D’Onofrio, Tumblr CEO New York City, New York, United States
Dear Jeff D’Onofrio,
On December 17, Tumblr will be banning porn from its site.
By banning “adult content” from your website in truth you categorically ban sex workers regardless of how they are using your platform. You cut them off from the ability to build an audience for their work, and what’s even worse, you declare their very existence as obscene.
Tumblr allows every content creator, artist, or small entrepreneur to build an audience and communicate with this audience at any moment in time - if you do not work in the adult industry of course.
Many brands use social media to sell products. Social media and eCommerce are interlocked. You take this now away from every adult content creator around the globe. And that is wrong.
You mentioned in a blog post titled “A better, more positive Tumblr”:
“There is no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.”
You are wrong: There is a shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content, in particular when it comes to shadowbanning and the ability to also advertise on these sites.
Look, here is what we do:
Sharesome is a site that welcomes all the people that you just kicked off your platform. You gave them time until December 17th to export a backup of their blog to save their years of work. Meanwhile we will develop an import tool, so they can move to us, and we leave you with all the white supremacist Nazi blogs – because we ban that kind of shit.
I think this is where I’m headed. The format is nice and its easily accessible for adult and NSFW content.
I look forward to seeing our amazing hypno, kink and fetish community moving to a welcoming home. This feels like a good first stop to move.
I’m gonna check this out.
I have no idea if Sharesome is good or not - only that they really want to get the adult content creators from Tumblr on their site. That being said, a lot of people seem to be claiming the letter is fake and yet a simple visit to the Twitter account of the Sharesome founder would prove it’s an actual thing - the post is even pinned on his account. https://twitter.com/RalfKappe?lang=en
