incoherentlyblogging:

lavahag:

bomberqueen17:

Inspired by this post, here’s a graphic and a link roundup:

No new content Sept 1 2017, in protest of Tumblr @staff‘s complete lack of effort to take any action to control rampant white-supremacist hate speech on this platform.

If GoDaddy and Google, Discord, and even OKCupid  (and even Facebook and GoFundMe) can take steps to curb hate, why can’t Tumblr? (Users have been complaining for years, it’s not like this is a new problem.) Tumblr consistently refuses to enforce its own no-hate-speech policy in this matter.

(There’s even a lovely write-up of it from this very month: Nazis On Tumblr Are Attempting To Make White Supremacy Hip.) (There’s a change.org petition about it too, which has a nice write-up of exactly how much absolutely-nothing Tumblr @staff are willing to do about egregious hate speech.) (No, I’m not involved with either of those links, nor the original post I’m referecing above, I just thought I’d Google it before I made a graphic. I know very little about this but it all seems pretty gross, now doesn’t it.)

I’m posting this now, then I’ll put it in my queue on the 1st and have that be the only thing that posts on that day (for those of us who can’t shut our queues down easily, that’s a solution). And then, no posts, no replies, no chats, no inbox, no messages, no visits to the site for the duration of the 1st in my timezone.

[Image description: On a blue background, white bold text says: “9/1/17 Tumblr Strike: This blog is posting no new content to protest Tumblr’s unwillingness to take action against white nationalist hate speech”]

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!

And for people who are wondering about timezone, I’m suggesting that since the Tumblr office is in New York, we use that timezone.

(And to everyone believe I’m so naive as to think a one-day boycott will stop it – c’mon. I know that. I’m trying to bring attention to this very serious issue, that’s it.)

Quick reminder that the month of August has 31 days and this boycott starts on Friday.

The time zone in New York is Eastern Standard Time so if everyone wants to do this over the same 24 hours, you can compare the time zone you’re in to the eastern one at midnight. For example, if you are in Mountain Standard Time like myself, your boycott will start at 10:00 p.m. on August 31st and end at the same time the next day.

Given how angry Twitter makes me by not doing this, it’s only consistent to extend the same logic over to Tumblr. 

So yeah, I’ll take a one-day break to help spread the word. See you on Saturday.