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Verizon is leaving the engine of internet culture to sputter and die, and its communities to scramble for a new home.

A former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September, shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn.

Porn on Tumblr is something Verizon needs to wipe out if it’s going to make any money off what it thinks is actually valuable about the platform — enormous fandom and social justice communities that, just before the Verizon acquisition, Khalaf was insisting the staff figure out how to better monetize.

On that note-

Two former Tumblr employees said they were alarmed when Khalaf chose Black Lives Matter as an example of a community that the company should focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers. One told The Verge, “Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to [make] a ton of money.”

smitethestate

Capitalism is disgusting and ruins everything.

someponys-scribbles

So there’s only one logical thing to do then. Turn ad blockers on full for this website if anyone decides to stick around. Turn them on, download XKit and install every ad blocking extension it has. Make these greedy fucks not able to see a fucking dime. What possible fucking reason would they deserve it? This website is still broken, they’ve not added any actual useful features in years, and now they’re KILLING a giant part of the website just so they can sell us more ads. Fuck them.

tlatophat

I would just like to point out that consumers opting out of a service or refusing to buy a product is an inherently capitalistic concept. In fact, the inability to opt out of a product or service is a sign you’re no longer dealing with a capitalist sector of the economy. THAT SAID, I encourage everyone to be capitalistic as HELL and demonetize this site into the abyss. I’ve been blocking all adds here for ages, and encourage anyone who’s not completely evacuating the site to do the same.