vastderp: I have a good deal of salt about
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vastderp:
I have a good deal of salt about Tumblr’s precious moral turn. Remember how i found out the hard way a couple weeks ago that tumblr’s scourge of pornbots are also permitted to upload real photographs of human children being abused as their header images?
like, tumblr didn’t even HAVE a report button on reblog chains until like two months ago and now that they do, its placement is not consistent between mobile and desktop.
if you click the reblogger’s avatar on iOS, it brings up the report and block buttons.
If you click the reblogger’s avatar on a Mac, you open the pornbot’s blog and the header image might be a big dingdong or some titties, or it might be a small child being abused. Thanks, Tumblr!
none of this should have been possible in the first place. Yahoo failed completely to compile or maintain their database of known abuse material to filter it out. they didn’t do anything when users complained that the site was being overrun. they have ignored years of user complaints about their moderation, they’ve even threatened people with permabans for pointing out flaws in their basic fucking security. their negligence was bound to hit the news and get them kicked out of app stores, and now it has, and Yahoo can’t ignore the problem anymore. now they have to do something. (pshhhyeah right.)
so now Yahoo is going after what its broken system CAN catch: people drawing porny cartoons, and adult voluntary sex workers trying to pay down their student loans. Random people blogging about disabilities in posts that your Great Grandma could read in church and not burst into flames. DOGGO VIDEOS.
Yahoo is making a huge production of kicking out lots and lots of users because all the activity makes them appear at a glance to be on top of this absolute clusterfuck, instead of suffocating underneath it.
this puts me in mind of a popular real-world city activity: rounding up all the visibly homeless people from the streets before a Superbowl or the Olympics or whatever and just dumping them in the next town over.
This isn’t a cleanup. This is Yahoo’s $1.1 billion investment burning to ash before our very eyes. And, like, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer company, you know? such fond memories!
if something online (say, a blogging platform) is free, it means you’re the product. your personal info, your attention for hideous unblockable sponsor ads, your browsing and shopping habits. even your memes can be turned into money, or frankensteinned into fake viral marketing that might make us buy a goddamn product. we are what Yahoo paid all that money for. we are inventory.
so join me, fellow inventory, in a dry but hearty fuck-you chuckle at our leaky corporate overlords as they run around trying to piss out this enormous, magnificent cash fire. the finest song to hear is the wailing of a willfully blind asshole as he tells the world he never saw it coming.
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vastderp:
I have a good deal of salt about Tumblr’s precious moral turn. Remember how i found out the hard way a couple weeks ago that tumblr’s scourge of pornbots are also permitted to upload real photographs of human children being abused as their header images?
like, tumblr didn’t even HAVE a report button on reblog chains until like two months ago and now that they do, its placement is not consistent between mobile and desktop.
if you click the reblogger’s avatar on iOS, it brings up the report and block buttons.
If you click the reblogger’s avatar on a Mac, you open the pornbot’s blog and the header image might be a big dingdong or some titties, or it might be a small child being abused. Thanks, Tumblr!
none of this should have been possible in the first place. Yahoo failed completely to compile or maintain their database of known abuse material to filter it out. they didn’t do anything when users complained that the site was being overrun. they have ignored years of user complaints about their moderation, they’ve even threatened people with permabans for pointing out flaws in their basic fucking security. their negligence was bound to hit the news and get them kicked out of app stores, and now it has, and Yahoo can’t ignore the problem anymore. now they have to do something. (pshhhyeah right.)
so now Yahoo is going after what its broken system CAN catch: people drawing porny cartoons, and adult voluntary sex workers trying to pay down their student loans. Random people blogging about disabilities in posts that your Great Grandma could read in church and not burst into flames. DOGGO VIDEOS.
Yahoo is making a huge production of kicking out lots and lots of users because all the activity makes them appear at a glance to be on top of this absolute clusterfuck, instead of suffocating underneath it.
this puts me in mind of a popular real-world city activity: rounding up all the visibly homeless people from the streets before a Superbowl or the Olympics or whatever and just dumping them in the next town over.
This isn’t a cleanup. This is Yahoo’s $1.1 billion investment burning to ash before our very eyes. And, like, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer company, you know? such fond memories!
if something online (say, a blogging platform) is free, it means you’re the product. your personal info, your attention for hideous unblockable sponsor ads, your browsing and shopping habits. even your memes can be turned into money, or frankensteinned into fake viral marketing that might make us buy a goddamn product. we are what Yahoo paid all that money for. we are inventory.
so join me, fellow inventory, in a dry but hearty fuck-you chuckle at our leaky corporate overlords as they run around trying to piss out this enormous, magnificent cash fire. the finest song to hear is the wailing of a willfully blind asshole as he tells the world he never saw it coming.
(Your picture was not posted)
