{"id":3322,"date":"2013-07-19T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2013-07-23T20:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T00:34:32","slug":"sex-positive-on-tumblr-dont-scream-no-one-can-hear-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/?p=3322","title":{"rendered":"Blogger Came for our Wallets, Tumblr Comes for Our Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"tumblr_mq5di0eI8U1qjma8no1_400\"<\/a>Go to the search\/ track bar, type in \u201cSex Positive”, recoil in horror as you realize that Tumblr has decided that Sex Positivity needs to be censored. \u00a0A system that hides discussions about sex being innately neither good or bad but a part of human nature isn\u2019t serving the greater good.<\/p>\n

Being a sex worker, I’m very used to moving in spaces where I’m marginalized and labeled dirty, \u00a0many artists, activists and their followers are not and are rightfully furious. \u00a0My blog has been banned from Networked Blogs, I can’t mention a certain pay processing service for fear of losing my account and now\u00a0my \u00a0can’t post tumblr to my FB page. I noticed this Tuesday and I suspect that they never will again. It’s a shame because that was one of my main reasons for using the platform, its hard out here for a sex positive blog.<\/p>\n

Tumblr has joined Blogger<\/a> in trying to sanitize the net so they can make the most ad dollars. \u00a0Its pretty sad. Now voices in this community will go silenced and disappear because they can\u2019t fund themselves and their messages cannot organically grow.<\/p>\n

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Want to really go insane? Try to search for tags like “Gay Asian American” or “Black Lesbian” these tags and nothing will show up. \u00a0Typing in “gay” is changed to “LGBTQ”. So not only is Tumblr blocking discussions of queer POC but then directing the conversation to the same spaces that those people of color are breaking off from. This silences the voices of those communities and rates them as less legitimate it also says that to tumblr groups like Black lesbians exists solely for pornography to be consumed.\u00a0Violet Blue\u00a0<\/a>of ZDnet.com writes<\/p>\n

“This news all comes on the same day that Tumblr’s iOS update for Apple rolled out changes that remove search results for #gay, #lesbian and #bisexual (though leave #bi, #lgbt and #queer intact).<\/p>\n

This appears to be in conforming with Apple’s anti-adult policy, though the unfairness of the characterization and effect on Tumblr’s community is making its LGBT users see even more red.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a major blow to the core of what made Tumblr a valuable space to begin with. It made a safe space for those seeking social justice for their marginalized group as well as up and coming artists to grow their business while displaying their art and communicating with their fan base. \u00a0Also distressing is the loss of blogs that provide comprehensive sexual health information that most don’t have access too. \u00a0There is no health class in the country that is required to teach about which sex toy materials are toxic many young women get that information from social media. Well, they used to .<\/p>\n

This also is indicative of a troubling trend where the internet \u00a0once provided an opportunity for those that wished to speak out , be sex workers or discuss sex independently find it more difficult to support themselves doing so. \u00a0New cam girls could set up a tumblr and promote themselves in an affordable fashion. This just isn’t possible right now. \u00a0If someone wanted to write about why it should be no one will be able to find those words because search engines aren’t indexing them.<\/p>\n

There is a petition circulating on tumblr right now demanding the policy be reversed which you can sign here<\/a>. (Warning , the language is problematic) \u00a0I honestly don’t think that the petition will amount to much. \u00a0People will do anything to not be labeled NSFW and move on – which means tumblr will lose important art , activists and voices.<\/p>\n\n

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