Y’all need to learn how to resist power because I keep seeing this post cross my dash about a ~one day boycott~ to protest Tumblr’s adult content ban. Let me put this very bluntly: Tumblr is about to voluntarily scuttle about 30% of its userbase (read: revenue) because they calculate that this will allow them to make more money in the long term.
They do not care about losing less than a third of one percent of their yearly revenue if it means that the majority of its users will ultimately stay loyal to the platform.
You cannot boycott this. The only way to effectively resist this is through civil disobedience. If users come together and collectively agree to violate the new terms of service Tumblr will be forced to choose between banning a critical mass of people from the platform (and subsequently going out of business) or sitting down to negotiate.
The ~boycott~ is nothing more than a feel-good activity to allow people to vent without actually exposing themselves in any way to real consequences. More bluntness: For the vast majority of y’all this website is a hobby. For the sex workers who rely on this website to make a safe living this website is survival.
Without a safe platform to reach their customers, sex workers will be forced into unsafe working conditions that will expose them to sex trafficking, rape, assault, arrest, homelessness, and other predation.
You’re literally putting your hobby ahead of the ability of other people to live, full stop. Y’all are fucking cowards.
what do you mean by violating the new terms of service? What kind of action would I have to take if I decided to participate or support the ~boycott~ you propose?
I think you are correct about your diagnose of the situation.
I’m saying that in order to resist a large number of Tumblr users will need to post adult content to their blogs on the 18th.
Yes, that will get you banned. The question is whether or not Tumblr staff will actually go ahead with the bans when doing so means losing so much of their userbase that their community of users falls apart and they go out of business.
Consider it a warm-up for what’s to come. Prove to yourself that you have the courage necessary to fight the spectre of fascism.
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