Tumblr is now owned by a phone company, so it’s stopped fighting for Network Neutrality

sulasaferoom:

bastlynn:

mostlysignssomeportents:

Yahoo’s sale to Verizon means that Yahoo’s sub-companies – Flickr, Tumblr and a host of others – are now divisions of a phone company, and as you might expect, being on the payroll of a notorious neutracidal maniac with a long history of sleazy, invasive, privacy-destroying, monopolistic, deceptive, anti-competitive, scumbag shakedowns has changed the public positions these companies are allowed to take.

This matters a lot. The previous fights for net neutrality were won in part with the support of scrappy online companies like Tumblr, whose CEO, staff and users worked together to send a strong message to Congress and the FCC about the importance of a neutral internet, free from ISPs who slow down your connections to services unless they pay bribes for “premium” carriage.

With Trump’s FCC set to slay Net Neutality, the internet is once again planning a day of coordinated action: on July 12, sites across the net will send their users to the FCC and Congress to demand that ISPs be held to a public service standard befitting the trillions of dollars in public subsidies they receive every year in the form of access to rights of way through our cities and between them.

However, Tumblr is not among the companies presently slated to participate, and sources within the company told The Verge that the company and its CEO, David Karp (once a staunch Net Neutrality campaigner) have been given orders to sit this one out.

https://boingboing.net/2017/06/22/corporations-arent-people.html

Ahhhh that explains the whole reason why ATT email addresses won’t be allowed to login to Tumblr anymore starting June 30th. (NOT. A. HOAX.)

https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115007729788-Heads-up-for-AT-T-customers

This btw – is why if you have fic on this site, you should probably work on copying it over to Ao3 now. Because the nature of Tumblr is likely to change with the new ownership… remember strikethru and prepare.

Heyyy everyone
Have you been backing up the stuff you have only posted on tumblr? Because you should
Gentle reminder Tumblr does not count as backup

gluten-free-pussy:

elionking:

black-to-the-bones:

What the hell is that? This can’t be real. I guess that’s the reason NRA didn’t speak out about Philando Castile’s case. They remained silent, although a law-abiding citizen, who had a permit to carry a gun was killed by the police officer. They were preparing this for us and this video clearly shows that they’re ready to fight black people with their guns. With the racism we have, with hatred we face every day i consider this a direct threat to black people.

When you see dystopian movies or shows or books or whatever, this is the type of thing they play in the flashbacks to show you how it went down and why everyone is miserable in the future.

Good lord

lancingnyc:

This is NOT someone we want as the face for OUR community. She is clueless & insensitive. She does more harm for our cause every time she opens her mouth…she needs to go FAR, FAR AWAY. & she needs to taker her asshole buddy Trump with her! #caitlynjennerisanasshole #hurtingthetranscmunity #goawaycaitlynjenner #byefelicia #fuckyoucaitlynjenner #notmypresident #trumpisanasshole #bothincompetent #downfallofthelgbtcommunity #girlslikeus #transisbeautiful #lovewins (at New York, New York)

pinkwashing? what’s that?

thetroublesofbeingtrans:

“In the context of LGBT rights, it is used to describe a variety of marketing and political strategies aimed at promoting products, countries, people or entities through an appeal to queer-friendliness, in order to be perceived as progressive, modern and tolerant.

The phrase was originally coined by Breast Cancer Action to identify companies that claimed to support people with breast cancer while actually profiting from their illness.” 

hope this helps ! :> we see a lot of this especially during pride month ://