We decided to leave what we were going to say about this until the fateful day of the proposed 'boycott' stuck, largely out of a sense of not wishing to give it any more credence than it was due.
For those who have been living under a rock lately, Dumblr managed to upset a lot of Dumblrers (or at least they were making a lot of loud noises about it) because they'd decided to change their terms of service.
It even sparked off a serious brows article on the BBC - the same ones which had merrily crucified them over their app being used by nonces for their nonsence - about that it was giving a poison apple to the pure sweet innocent perverts and denying them a vital voice on the internet, because as everyone knows, sexual deviants find it so very hard to find a place to call home on the internet.
That has to be the worst V For Vendetta cosplay we have ever saw by the way!
One Dbdspirit called for a mass boycott for Monday 17th December, but only between midnight and 9pm - so they would still have three hours of the day left to catch up on what takes half an hour tops to do on that shitty smartphone orientated platform anyway.
'This ban is discriminatory.'
As is their right. Their roof their rules.
‘This ban is unacceptable.’
How much again do you pay to Dumble away to your little heart's content?
Oh, was that 'f**k all' we heard? Why, we do believe it is so!
So tell us, how much leverage does that give you if you decide to pull your pigtails out and sit with a huffy face for twenty one hours?
Now, if you were going to leave it, full stop, you would be doing more than venting your own spleens, but you had nowhere to go, did you?
Or at least you felt you didn't. Rather the conveniences Dumblr offers to you outweighs the loss of your fap 'n' schlick pics so you're not going anywhere. Deep down you knew it, and deep down so did Tumblr, otherwise they would not have used the business over the Apple app fiasco as a mute pretext for actions which in truth they had to carry out anyway - had you all stopped screaming for a minute to look at the matter in context.
Wait, what's that about context we're saying?
If you're feeling hungry, feast your eyes on this...
Mega and other internet content hosters or file storers across the world as of today are being hit with the exact same change in internet laws, and are having to comply accordingly as part of a universal crackdown against child pornography. Tumblr are not doing this alone.
Granted, until they get the Russians to play ball somewhat in vain, but this will at least provide the pretext to simply start banning access to IPs hosted there. They're quick enough to do it to other countries for daring to host 'dissident' material about Uncle Vlad being not a very nice chap (as anyone in Salisbury will vouch for...) But we digress.
Yes, there's a element of using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut, but isn't all this rattle throwing a touch hypocritical considering how much everyone has screamed blue murder for years at service providers and social platforms for not doing enough to combat the internet being a Wild West for cranks and perverts. For the love of plumbob, we in the Simming community especially ought to know about that - we've spent nine years documenting it as did plenty of others before we arrived back in the Sims 2 days where a certain little feud between the 'gods of Simming' sprang up thanks to some of their non-Simming activities - some of it with relevance to today's events...)
Well now they're doing something - long overdue, but nevertheless are doing it. And still it's blue murder.
If you are paying for a service, you have the right to expect your complaints to be addressed. If you don't, all you are expecting is for the provider to show you the courtesy of acknowledging your distress, but you are owed zilch.
As per usual at such times, those with an eye for the main chance saw it as a way of making a fast buck out of stupid Simmers with more easily triggered emotions than braincells, and no surprise it was one of the race card playing pirates that was first off the blocks.
As was expected, those proffering starting up alternative platforms can't even keep up the commitments they have, let alone start any others, and it all turned out to be the usual hot air which powers most of Dumblr anyway.
Of more concern to us was people we thought would know better than to get sucked into the manure storm such as Switch were doing so - including some alarming stuff about saying the platform should be limited to sixteen year olds and above.
Whoa there! Wasn't it that long ago a certain Cloverstardropper along with a certain Spychip, Dolphinz2121, etc. were having to face down the misery guts on the old EA forum because some of the grouchier members felt that the place ought not to be inhabited by twelve year olds - ie. you two? You weren't supposed to be on the EA forum by its own terms - yet you were, and a better place it was for it, and largely blind eyes were turned because this was a premier example of the law being a biblical donkey.
The fact that the twelve year olds at times talked far more sense than their 'elders and betters' (hah!) was a small lesson to us not to prejudge people on age - especially when there were thirty year olds running mob vendettas against sixteen year old girls for asking them 'nooby questions'.
You were young yourself not all that long ago before you became a decrepit senile twenty year old. What was it that caused you to abandon Disney sites and the like? Wanting to be with the big kids?
Or was it the case that like so many others sites the 'big kids' so frequently came along and ruined them you decided you may as well not bother? If you weren't running into nutters like MadameLee ('HARRY POTTER, NANCY DREW AND DISNEY PRINCESSES ARE MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH!') there were the more sinister elements - and not just the sort of sad pathetic perverts such as Lungpaul etc, but also the likes of Jarsie9/Momthing - lest we forget she got up to ten times worse away from the EA forum than she ever did on it.
Jarsie9/Monthing to Little-Amy98: ‘And oh, by the way….I guarantee you I can make you cry without once violating the terms of service.’ - on a Disney run website.
The trouble with 'kid friendly' websites is that all too often they're kid hostile in practice, so they may as well go to the adult ones anyway.
Learning about the internet and its pitfalls is an important part of growing up - or at least of getting old and cynical. If the price that is paid is making life more expensive for sex workers (we'll care less the moment they start paying tax for their earnings like everyone else...) or people for whom the be all and end all of their existences is getting horny, boo bloody hoo. If the choice on Tumblr is restrict kids' access or restrict 'adult content' provider - no contest. The latter can bloody pay for their own websites, web spaces, etc. instead of wanting to have their cake and eat it - getting free coverage and dictating to everyone else what is or is not 'acceptable.'
Moreover, the internet is often one of the few places kids can learn about 'growing up' matters in their own space and time without some dipshit adult with an agenda doing so ('you're going to burn in Hell if you do this!' 'you'll be a politically incorrect Nazi Fascist if you believe that!', etc).
Our thoughts exactly. So losing the iffy pics is a small price to pay for their longer term well being.
Yes, there's going to be 'false positives' - that's the price to pay for any new change in service. Cut them some slack.
We've had six at the last count, all to do with pictures and one interestingly happened to be the one we reposted about the Habs fiasco, which made us wonder whether certain people who'd rather the facts weren't so well known about their schemes were looking to do a bit of false reporting... if so, nice try, but you failed.
