When did freedom of expression suddenly become an online crime? When did an attack on a specific subset of any group ever work to the benefit of any institution?
In this bloggers humble opinion, Tumblr’s December 17th forced genocide of Adult Content blogs is just another example of how our society is slipping backwards in its level of tolerance towards anything that is different, preferring to have this type of content hidden away, and marked with a scarlet letter of intolerance and shame.
Are there issues revolving around certain types of blogs Yes. Child pornography and other unacceptably content is abhorrent to all. Is Tumblr going after those specific types of blogs? No. Are they setting up a system that blocks minors from accessing adult content blogs? No. They are preferring to follow a simplistic “nuke it all” approach rather than address the overall problem. Taking a M.A.D (mutually assured destruction) approach, can only end in one way, for without adult content, Tumblr will die off.
So my friends and followers(93k amazing individuals), I challenge you to reblog this note, and challenge Tumblr’s decision. Perhaps, if enough of us stand up and protest some good will come of it. Resist, and fight the good, and honourable, fight.
A reblog never hurts in these desperate times
To answer the question of when freedom of expression became an online crime requires a 3-part explination.
1) It bacame a crime when the people who FEEL they are SUPERIOR to everyone else andchose to SEGREGATE those who are interested in certain types of content.
2) The people who feel they are superiou want to SHAME those who aren’t like them.
3) They have decided they are allowed to CYBERBULLY those who are DIFFERENT from them off the internet sites they like/want/own.
