This whole NSFW situation is exactly like when America made alcohol illegal in the 1920s to combat rampant alcoholism and it 100% backfired and actually made people drink way MORE and actually made it more accessible. They realized what a mistake they had made and repealed that shit.
Which brings me to my business proposal:
Titty Speakeasies
Knock three times and give the password “I like your shoelaces”
Pornhub’s entire business model revolves around stealing content made by
sex workers without their consent and profiting off it with no
compensation to the workers who generate the content they steal.
Sex
workers are an incredibly vulnerable and stigmatised class of workers, mostly women,
mostly younger, mostly not rich, with little recourse, socially or legally, against a massive
corporation like Pornhub.
Pornhub relies on this, on how little you care about sex workers, to maintain a business
based on stealing their livelihoods.
Stop applauding a
corporation that literally exists to steal from marginalised workers just
because they have a competent PR department.
Fucking thank you
I’m not defending them but isn’t that true of all porn sites?
Yes.
This is going around again because Pornhub have apparently been billing themselves as an alternative to Tumblr for artists and sex workers and it was made originally because as they say, Pornhub has a very clever PR department (I’m thinking in particular of the snow plowing stunt last year) and people have a tendency to fall for it.
Pornhub pays 69 cents per 1k views while Youtube pays $7.60 for the same amount of traffic.
If someone steals your porn and uploads it, Pornhub requires that you doxx yourself to the uploader.
^^^^ Yep! Said it before, will say it again, and have been needing to remind people pretty often because it apparently takes nothing for y’all to forget that corporations don’t care about you (since people have been all starry eyed about their new BFF Pornhub):
THIS IS HOW IT WORKS:
When a performer discovers their reuploaded content, they must file a DMCA req to get it pulled down. This involves two main parts.
1. Their formal statement is required to *prove* they are indeed the owner fo the content, and therefore have the right to state it was not intended for redistribution.
2. To prove this, they must submit their LEGAL NAME AND ADDRESS to the site. As part of DMCA law, the site retains the right to DISCLOSE OUR NAME AND ADDRESS to the uploader, as part of informing them who has made a claim against the upload.
(Because of the frightening implications of giving my name and address to a porn site that can make the info available to a pirate, I have paid THOUSANDS in legal fees to incorporate in order to keep my info private. It was very expensive and absolutely not available to most performers, and for years I did not have this option available and had to continue doxxing myself to fucking pornsites)
NOTE!!! At NO POINT are the uploaders asked to provide legal proof of clip ownership, nor are they required to submit their name and address. Sites NEVER ask pirates to prove anything is theirs aside perhaps from ticking a check box. Pirates are hard to fight because sites do next to nothing to discourage them. Why? Because they make their money off of traffic, and all income is good income to them.
They don’t care.
Be better than them. Tubesites are not friends to artists and fair warning, artists that think Pornhub will be a great place for them will find that out when their shit starts getting reposted.
some people’s blogs are being incorrectly flagged as explicit so if you would like to check your status, you can look it up on postlimit.com.
if you have been incorrectly marked as nsfw, you can appeal before tumblr permanently filters you as such and your blog is set back to default settings prior to december 18th here.
Everyone: this is how I found out I was flagged and marked explicit. Check your stuff out and make sure you’re good to go.
I’m good to go, but it does tell me that my blog is eight years old.
Think about that. Tumblr has managed to keep me here despite all the bullshit for 8 years and with one decision, I’m contemplating on if I’m leaving for good or not.
July 10th, 1932: Antifaschistische Aktion, better known as Antifa, holds its first rally in Berlin.
July 10th, 2018: The GOP introduces the Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018 in the House, which aims to make antifascist activism punishable by fifteen years in prison.
If you’re not worried, you should be.
if antifa wasn’t a terrorist organization people would actually care.
“In more than 30 years of antifa activity, there has been one confirmed fatality caused by an antifa group member ― in 1993, when a Nazi in Portland, Oregon, was shot during a fight at a gas station. Far-right extremists, by contrast, were responsible for 670 fatalities, 3,053 injuries and 4,420 attacks in the United States from 1990 to 2012, according to a report from the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.”
Dan Donovan, the Staten Island knucklehead who introduced the “Unmasking Antifa Act,” lost his bid for reelection by six points, lmao
What is almost certainly happening with Tumblr’s image classifier is that they’ve deployed the bot entirely untrained, and are relying on user complaints to train it what NSFW content on tumblr looks like.
Making people participate in their own censorship in this way and punishing them with the threat of being silenced even if in compliance with the rules should they not participate, is, IMHO, abuse of their userbase.
Source: I’ve worked for three different top-five social networks, and at all of them this type of work would have been done by making the userbase do it as much as possible.
Please signal boost. I don’t care if you reblog or repost, just get the word out so that people know what they’re doing as they interect with this thing.
My twitter is @soren_tycho (nsfw, sfw account coming soon) and my github username is sorentycho.
Just chiming in as a machine learning expert, this is almost certainly the case (and knowing tumblr, they weren’t even smart enough to throw in pre-trained weights)
GOD THIS MAKES ME ANGRY. Is this just a big game of “Click all the squares with <strike>nipples</strike> cars in them? Is that it? You’re making us work for you on the way out you bastards? *normally sanguine Ces turns into giant rage machine* The (W#)*% *(* with this @$&!!!!
…then let’s try to give each other a worthy send-off by supporting indies who have built their homes here for years.
WE NEED YOUR HELP.
Most indies who live here are pretty freaked out, even if we don’t create NSFW. As I’ve said before, my content isn’t going to get me banned. But Tumblr is still one of my biggest social media homes. I have more followers here than almost anywhere else.
And it’s exceptionally likely, in my estimation, that this site is about to go the way of MySpace. That freaks me out.
So if there’s any indies you’ve been following for a long time here, and you’ve always meant to buy some of their stuff, but you haven’t yet—NOW IS THE TIME, MY LITTLE CHICKADEES.
Get yourself a Christmas present. Or ask someone to buy it for you. Just support the artists you’ve loved here for a long time, because you might literally lose them in just a few days.
And if you’re looking for gift ideas from indies, I’ve listed some of my faves from the years I’ve spent here.
REBLOG THIS AND ADD YOUR OWN INDIE ARTISTS SO YOUR FOLLOWERS HAVE SOMEWHERE TO SHOP FOR CHRISTMAS.
If you haven’t read or heard of @rileyskeene , you’re missing out! Their fantasy books are queer AF, packed with adventure and just…look, just read them, okay?
Okay, this one is slightly self-serving, sue me. BUT this isn’t just my book, this is a collection of 11 stories by 8 authors who include a ton of queer authors and authors of color. One purchase supports way more than one artist. (And the book is fucking awesome, too.)
These are queer romance books by @asynca WHO IS THE BEST PERSON and has never been anything but helpful and delightful to every denizen of Tumblr and SUPPORT HER YOU MONSTERS.
Batwynn is a hella awesome artist with great merch like shirts and hoodies and pillows that go particularly well with YOUR Christmas wrapping paper! Like Sterek? Drarry? Frostiron? I may only barely know what those things are, but he draws them, and they look neat!
Want to give a truly amazing Christmas present? Commission art from @daddyschlongleg or @enjistier for your friend! Or ask someone to commission art for YOU!
Reblog the shit out of this. Add more indies!
SHOP INDIE FOR CHRISTMAS!
@atomicpixies and @plays-with-shadows are two indie artists I know who take commissions and are AMAZING. @wingogo is another artist who’s awesome but may not be taking commissions right now. @chloerozo is ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL and I think is currently taking commissions!
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