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i know a lot of people are suddenly posting about it, and my girlfriend uses it. but apparently another bad has happened, this time to do with the ceo and transphobia?

i know nothing about what happened so here's me in real time guessing before i look it up!

guess: CEO is allowing some harassment group to continue to post despite clearly calling for harm to trans folks, citing "free speech" or "not losing demographics"

actual answer having now looked it up: nobody fucking asked but the CEO slid into people's DMs to justify that you shouldn't be mad at them for banning and rebanning a trans person for making 'threats of violence against staff'. the thing that trans people have constantly happening to them on the site, but if you do it you're now Causing A Problem

once people did ask, here are some of the highlights:

First, Tumblr has a number of LGBT+ including trans people on staff, and they see things from the inside fully, and they're not protesting this case.

MY LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANS FRIENDS ARE ALSO TRANS AND ALL OF THEM AGREE WITH ME. NO YOU MAY NOT SPEAK TO THEM.

Why do we wrongly have a transphobe reputation? We did have an external contract moderator last year that was making transphobic moderation (and also selling moderation, criminally). As soon as we were aware that person was fired, and we later terminated the entire relationship with that contracting firm and have brought almost everything in-house (at great cost). I have previously commented on this publicly, several times.

i think people think you're still transphobic because you frame accountability as "look at all the fuckin money we had to spend on you, be grateful"

That is never okay. Threats of violence is not protected speech. We will work with police and FBI where appropriate. I just got a death threat yesterday from someone mad about predstrogen, and that account was immediately terminated.

literally get over yourself, coward. jesus christ. i get death threats all the time. you are going to in this line of work, that is part of the fucking problem. that is part of the socmede job, you are acting like it only ever happens to you.

'what are you threatening me with fire for? i'm just the firefighter, and the building simply has to burn. last time we went in there it scorched us pretty bad, so better to just stay out of it all. any attempts to pressure us into action will result in being banned from the burning house.'

So regardless of whether you still think Tumblr staff is somehow a bunch of transphobes, know that threats of violence or death are still not acceptable and will result in immediate and serious action. Know that when you rile people up, they can do dumb things with possibly permanent consequences.

'know that threats are never acceptable, and if you keep irritating me we'll just fuckin see what Dumb Things happen'

to be clear: death threats are, blanket statement here: bad

to conclude the metaphor, this is the firefighter going to the neighbors the next day and saying 'well, since nobody was able to control the last fire, the building burned down. can we store this kindling in your house?'


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