From a child pornography survivor.
This is the wrong move. You don’t get to use my trauma as a reason to justify this.
Yes, any sexual content involving children should be removed without question. No one is arguing about that. But by banning ALL adult content you will be taking away a safe space from survivors like me. Tumblr is where I first felt safe enough to start exploring my sexuality. I had almost complete control over what type of posts I saw, I wasn’t being bombarded with ads or pop ups that freaked me out, and I knew these were actual people monitoring these blogs, not just a random website uploading hundreds of videos everyday. I could talk to other people, I could learn. Do you understand what I’m saying?
It is safe. It is important for mine and others healing.
For years, your users have been asking you to do something about the porn bots and the spam. You have ignored us repeatedly. But now you want to just ban everything? It really sounds like you just don’t want to do the work of sorting between bots and real blogs.
This site is not for children. When you sign up, you are asked to verify you are over 13. The age on the app store was higher. It is your job to make sure children are not on this site, not to punish the adults allowed here. Put age verification on certain blogs, or raise the age to sign up. Lock safe mode on for people who report being underage. I don’t care. But by banning everything, you are telling us you no longer care and would rather take the easy way out even if it negativity affects most of your users.
Please, listen to your users. Work with us to make this a safer space, not against us.
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