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An Open Letter to Tumblr about the Adult Content Ban and How it is Hurting Your Users:

Recently, Tumblr was removed from the Apple app store due to an incident involving child pornography. This incident is incredibly unfortunate, but it doesn’t stand alone. Tumblr was also removed from the app store due to the large influx of porn bots and pornographic spam, users claiming to be proud to be pedophiles, blatant Nazism, racists who are not deleted for sending hate and harassing users, and more. I myself reported someone for harassing me, but because I had blocked the person and couldn’t access the messages where they harassed me, they were still able to send me anonymous asks. Your support staff, with back doors to the website (presumably), claimed they could not access the messages, and I was left SOL. Many features on this website do nothing to actually protect your users from harassment, racism, homophobia, transphobia, Nazis, pedophiles, predators, porn bots, and more. 

You claim in your statement to us that you “have been working on these problems for a long time”. This is blatantly untrue. Please do not lie to us and patronize us. We’ve been here. We’ve seen you do nothing over, and over, and over again. 

We complained to you for months and months about the rampant porn bots, and you did nothing except add a report button on mobile which only reported sensitive content or spam at best. You could have addressed this problem with an effective algorithm, but you did not. We complained to you about being harassed and sent hate speech for being LGBT+, and you did nothing. We complained to you about blogs being randomly deleted, and sometimes you’ve restored them, other times you have not. We complained to you that there were people proudly claiming to be “Minor Attracted Persons”, or pedophiles, and you did nothing. We complained to you about people proudly claiming to be white supremacists, and you did nothing. All of these things are “against the community guidelines”, and yet over and over, you have not found effective ways to handle these problems or suppress the feeling of welcome that these users claim to get here. You have had a long time to work on these problems, but you haven’t addressed them. To say you have is untrue. 

 Multiple other social networking websites, such as Wordpress, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and others have effectively dealt with rampant pornography, racism, pedophilia, and other problems without causing massive issues for their users who are not misusing the platform. They are continuing to find new, effective ways to deal with these issues without causing problems for their userbase as a whole.  There is no reason that you are unable to do this effectively other than that you wanted to do it quickly. You have once again chosen your stock holders over your users. And we have had enough. 

You have already started to ban “Adult” content with a new algorithm. Here are screenshots of just a fraction of the posts you have flagged as containing adult content:

Your new system of simply tackling everything at once is not working. At all. And each of these screenshots is proof of your utter incompetence. None of these posts contain pornographic acts, “female nipples”, or any community violation of any kind. 

We, the users, have been asking you for months to deal with these problems - particularly, the porn bots and bots that spam. In order to block a bot from a side blog, I have to do it manually, even though they are in my side blog’s feed. This is a huge issue for mobile - only users. They keep cropping up in droves, taking over our posts and tricking google into making it look like a legitimate blog linked to a pornographic website. We have complained to you for months and months now, and your solution to simply “ban all adult content” is ineffective. I agree that children should not be able to access pornography - but this is not how you tackle a porn bot problem. Your system is utterly useless, allows for racists, pedophiles, porn bots, and Nazis to remain untouched. It also harms sex workers and real people who may use this website for some forms of adult content responsibly. Moreover, as seen above, it harms plenty of users who have in no way violated your terms of service.

 If you keep this up, you threaten your website and company as a whole. Many of us are backing up our blogs and planning places to go to. 

You already have a content filter for “sensitive” content (content inappropriate for younger viewers). You could have improved this, instead of attacking your entire user base. It seems to be a very lazy “solution”, if you could call it one at all, and one that harms your entire userbase.

If you are going to keep this filter in place and make Tumblr, a website that has never been known for being family friendly and has never claimed to be, you are going to lose millions of your users. We are already planning our exodus. It isn’t hard to follow. Censor us, and we will go somewhere else. That is not a threat. It is a promise. 

Sincerely, 

The users of your website. 

@staff @support

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[i-am-the-superweapon]

Hux was back on the bridge, pacing like nothing happened ten minutes ago, but he kept remembering how good it felt to have Ren press against him with the Force. He felt dirty, but it turned him on.

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

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[i-am-the-superweapon]

Hux huffed, but he couldn't care. If Ren wanted to sulk, he could do that on his own. He was just glad to be in his quarters ad he quickly changed. He briefly thought of taking a shower too, but then he decided against it. He didn't have the time.

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

@auvillar

[i-am-the-superweapon]

"Ren, stop this. Focus." Hux growled, really not in the mood anymore.

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

@auvillar

[i-am-the-superweapon]

"Oh, you wish." Hux shook his head and turned to watch the turbolift.

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

@auvillar

[i-am-the-superweapon]

“Stop reading my mind!” Hux snapped and glared at Ren. “Focus on getting us to our quarter unnoticed, instead.”

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

@auvillar

[i-am-the-superweapon]

Hux rolled his eyes, now in real annoyance. He was sure Kylo was just bragging, and so he got off his lap and did up his pants. He looked at the mess on his uniform and sighed. Hopefully they won’t meet with anyone on the way.

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

@auvillar

[i-am-the-superweapon]

“With the Force?” Hux frowned. “So, how does it work?”

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

@auvillar

[i-am-the-superweapon]

“Ugh! But I wanted it. You could’ve fucked me without having to prepare... Just with the Force...” Hux shuddered at the thought.

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

@auvillar

[i-am-the-superweapon]

Hux’s breathing hitched and he glared at Kylo. “Wait... You could’ve...” His eyes widened.

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

@auvillar

[i-am-the-superweapon]

“We will take a trip to our quarters for new clothes. Or you could clean us with the force.” Hux rolled his eyes, but he wasn’t really annoyed, not now. Not after what they have just done.

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

@auvillar

[i-am-the-superweapon]

"Please..." Hux whispered into their kiss, and he took up on his Supreme Leader's command, coming on cue, and making a mess on Kylo's hand and clothes. "Payback." He grinned, pulling back to look at it

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

@auvillar

[i-am-the-superweapon]

This lust was maddening and Hux wanted nothing more than to be bent over the table and fucked mercilessly. But he knew this was not the time or the place for that and he could hardly keep from begging. "Ah! Careful!" He moaned, Kylo's cock touching the head of his.

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

@auvillar

[i-am-the-superweapon]

Hux groaned loudly and nodded. "I want you, Ren." He moaned and pressed forward, against Kylo's cock.

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

@auvillar

[i-am-the-superweapon]

Hux rolled his hips into the hand, moaning into Kylo's ear like a whore. He was so worked up, he felt like he could come at any second, but he tried to hold on to enjoy their time together.

"I have a surprise for you!" Kylo smiled, keeping his hands behind his back.

Hux looked up from his datapad curiously. “Really? What is it?”

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