ironical-ghosty-reblogs:

cianm3rry:

xenethes:

apparently porn bots are now hacking into in-use accounts (I’m assuming larger accounts) and posting while the blog owner is still active. 

holy fuck.

why are staff so incompetent

rather than fixing their obviously very flawed code and development, they’re deciding to ban tits? fucking tits?

that being said, although it’s so unlikely this will happen to me, please know that it’s not me posting these links and photos. Please dont click on the links. 

oh my god.

Also, if it is happening to me or one of my side blogs, please let me know!

That might explain why one of the blogs I follow was suddenly posting other photos than nature photos?!

hornsandblackwool:

faetaliity:

carnivalsofsilverfish:

jonpertwee:

punkwitchanarchist:

repotting:

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.

greywash:

elder-lemon:

cameoamalthea:

tsuki-chibi:

whitmerule:

liz-squids:

pearlmaser:

elfwreck:

olderthannetfic:

unclutterme:

olderthannetfic:

I’m curious how many related deletions we can come up with.

• 2002 - FFN bans porn
  
• 2002 - FFN bans RPF
  
• 2004 - FFN bans script format
• 2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic
• 2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough
  
• 2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites
• 2010 - FFN forums deleted
• 2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence
• 2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn
• 2014 - Quizilla shuts down
• 2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank

Didn’t quizilla have purges before finally shutting down? And I know basically every vidding home hot destroyed, repeatedly taking out the entire history of vidding online.

… they deleted Fandom Wank???

Well, not specifically. Journalfen failed completely and has never come back. FW was on Journalfen, so while you can see some entries on the Wayback machine, I think (?), the long comment threads aren’t archived.

• 2007 - Youtube starts using its “content ID” system to identify (and block) works that include copyrighted material in their database.
  
• 2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down, taking down fandom’s biggest collection of blog-style RPGs
  
• 2012 - Megaupload shut down by FBI; some (many?) fanvid archives lost
  

I thought there was also some kind of purge at Deviantart, but I don’t recall the details.

I’d like to remind folks that there was literally wank last month about why do we need the OTW.

Well, this would be why: we sincerely believed in the internet values of a decade or two ago, which involved owning our own servers if we wanted to see our projects remain stable, in the long term, online.

Worth mentioning: Yahoo purchased GeoCities, and was behind the decision to shut all those sites down. 

Yahoo’s incompetence destroyed Delicious.

Yahoo owns Tumblr.

1356: 50% of monks.

People just… completely forget. I was there for all of the bans on fanfiction.net. You don’t know panic until you go to log in one morning and find out a bunch of your works have been deleted, gone forever, because some asshole arbitrarily decided that they wanted to ban something.

AO3 IS IMPORTANT. IT MATTERS.

2016 -y!gallery an archive of m/m art and stories, original and fanfiction was completely destroyed and all works were lost

Y!gallery itself was originally built in response to Sheezy art banning adult themes in 2005

Deviant Art in my experience says it doesn’t allow porn but will allow erotic art of women to reach the front page, straight male gaze gets a pass. Art focused on men is more likely to get deleted.

A lot of things destroyed by anti-porn rules are really anti-porn not made by and for straight men. It’s women’s and queer folks work that is demonized.

^^^^^ i actually tested this when i was on DA. I drew a bunch of s*xually e*plicit vag*nas and d*cks and the d*cks were removed within 24 hours. the vag*nas were never reported.

these bans are attacks on women and queer/LGBTQ people. the straight male gaze is apparently the only legitimate n sfw view

You missed some:

• 1995 (and again in 2005) - Viacom/Paramount pursues the removal of all fan content/fan clubs from commercial third-party services acting as hosts.
• 1997 - Multiple hosters of The Simpsons, X-Files, and Star Trek fan content start getting targeted with C&D orders from Fox and Lucasfilm.
• 1998 - AOL TOSes X-Files fansites.
  
• 2000 - Harry Potter fansites get targeted by Warner Brothers.
  
• 2001 - Tripod purges a bunch of fansites, along with a lot of anti-Malaysian government content.
• 2006 (the year before Strikethrough/Boldthrough) - LJ is sold to Russian media company SUP, in part so the Kremlin can control LJ’s use by Russian political dissidents.
• 2009 - scans_daily, which was “originally founded as a place to revel in the slashy subtext of comics,” was TOSed from LJ for copyright infringement after a complaint from Marvel.
  
• 2010 ish (?) - deviantART purges adult fanfiction (I only very vaguely remember this one, because I’ve never been a dA user and it happened during my fannish hiatus, but there is some incomplete info on Fanlore. If you remember more about what happened, please help edit that page!)
• 2011 - Several female M/M slash writers arrested in China for depicting/promoting homosexuality, gore, and violence
  
• 2014 - Several more female M/M slash writers and archive hosts arrested in China for depicting/promoting homosexuality and sexually explicit material
  
• 2017 - Another high-profile female fic writer arrested in China for selling “illegally published works”
  
• 2018 - Tumblr deletes a number of fannish blogs containing photo edits for copyright infringement
• 2018 - Tumblr deletes a number of fannish blogs containing NSFW content
  
• 2018 - Article 13 of the EU copyright reform measure—which has serious and damaging implications for fannish content—passes the European Parliament [though it has not yet been enacted into law and if you are in the EU you can still call your MEPs and agitate to block it]
  

Fandom purges are almost never just about one thing. Fannish content both relies on fair use exemption and is frequently sexually explicit, so it gets attacked on both copyright/legal grounds (thank you, OTW Legal Team, for protecting us!) and TOS/hoster rules about porn/specific fictional content (thank you, AO3, for being an open archive!). On top of that, there is a nontrivial history of fannish content being lumped in with content that criticizes authoritarian governments, and targeted by sweeps by those governments and their censorship agencies when they purchase or put pressure on the commercial entities that own the servers (thank you, OTW, for being a nonprofit and owning and defending our servers!).

If you care about fannish content, you have to fight for fanfic on all three fronts. And if we hop off of HTTP and onto one of the decentralized protocols like dat et cetera, like people are starting to talk about in response to Article 13 and the Tumblr purges, we will inevitably be targeted along with a) people pirating media, b) porn distributors, and c) anti-government protestors, because those groups are also going use those protocols, too. I’m not saying, don’t think about migrating. I’m saying: there is a systemic problem within fandom, regarding the fact that we routinely get hit on three fronts: legal rights to the material we transform, sexual content, and governmental disapproval. Protecting fandom means fighting for fandom on all three fronts and putting thought and effort into how to make an archive robust against all three prongs of the attack.

This is what’s made AO3/the OTW so special: we have lawyers protecting our right to make what we make, we have a TOS that protects our right to make things that are sexually explicit, and because the OTW is a nonprofit, it’s more robust to the pressure that can be brought to bear upon commercial entities by both corporate and governmental powers (though, I note, especially when it comes to governments, it’s not immune, and we have to keep actively protecting it, and we have to protect other fans). If you are in fandom but you think that copyright upload filters are fine, because, well, you don’t want to put fanvids on YouTube, you are part of the problem. Your community is under attack. The powers that be have always come for us by attacking us in pieces, and we have always only ever successfully fought back by banding together.

arkadycosplay:

From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:

- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

- archive everything on your blog you want to keep

- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

- support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.

argumate:

but really porn is just the canary in the coal mine that our supposed general purpose computing devices are tightly controlled by a duopoly that makes Microsoft in the ‘90s look relaxed and open minded: Apple doesn’t want porn apps on its phones, so there are no porn apps on its phones; other apps can stay if they tithe 30%, but they’re on thin fucking ice.

you can leave Tumblr and go to another social network, but if that gets sufficiently popular it will face the same threat, there is no escape.

the last bastion of freedom is the open web, and I anticipate the day when mobile Safari blocks access to sites that aren’t signed by Apple, for security reasons.

the right to install whatever software you want on your own computer is a vital one, and we should be fighting for it.

lines-and-edges:

elfwreck:

tatterdemaliionamberiite:

A more succinct PSA for reblogging:

Currently, putting images in a reblog of a post, (especially a text post?) causes the reblog and any reblogs of it to NOT appear on a main blog page or public blog.

It will only appear in your dash view, or your own blog on the internal view while you are logged in.

Do not use reaction gifs if you want your posts to be locatable. This is not a drill.

Please reblog this so other people are aware of it!

So.. Tumblr may be considering removing images from public view.

Gentle reminder that Dreamwidth is open, and many wonderful fannish people are there and ready to have fun conversations. 

Ironically, this reblog is de-listed* for having a link in it. So I’m going to signal boost it here.

*Not shadowbanned like images, it still appears on public pages and on the view you get when you click on someone’s name. But it doesn’t show in the notes feed. That seems to be what they’re doing with links vs. images.

damnslippyplanet:

Okay, I’ve been mulling it over after this morning’s post, and yes, this is what I want for my birthday.  Yinz have one week.  (Although, you know, I am not the boss of you or your calendar, feel free to start sooner or run past the 22nd, I’ve heard Birthday Week is a thing although I usually confine myself to a day.)

My birthday request from the fandom this year is recommendations for fandom things you love, or things you have made yourself that you are proud of.

So!  On the 22nd, give or take, please post or send me some recs for Hannibal-related* fic or art or fanworks of your choice.  Any kind, any rating, any ship, whatever.  Old, new, anything.  No rules per se, but a couple of requests:

1) It would be awesome if you would err on the side of including newer or less-talked-about folks that I might not already be familiar with.  

2) If you do your own fic, art, whatever, please include at least one rec for a thing of your own.  (Not required if you’re shy, but I really would like it.)

I can’t 100% promise to read/look at everything immediately depending how much there is, how busy I am, how much my government is turning into a trashfire causing my to spend my days protesting in the streets, and how active my brainweasels are.  But I will try to make my way through everything sooner or later, and I will definitely do a round-up masterlist post linking to everything I’m sent.**

That’s it.  Them’s the rules.  Bring me some birthday joy to share with the fandom, buttercups.  @ me into your posts or tag them #recsforslippy so I can find them, okay?

- Love, Slippy

*The birthday girl would like Hannibal stuff for this so it can be a gift for the fandom as well as a personal gift.  But LBR, the authoress is also rolling around in a pile of YOI fic, will have Bucky Barnes feelings forever, and is just generally interested in whatever is well-written even if it’s not a fandom she goes to, so feel free to also send her other recs for things you like or things you have written/drawn, too.  Shower me with distractions, darlings, the world is terrible.

**The birthday girl does reserve the right to leave things out of the masterlist or link but skip personally reading things, if they happen to hit her personal trigger/nope buttons.  But she will try to use that right very sparingly.  If you’re wondering whether something might be over her line, feel free to check in with her beforehand.

malka-nediva:

toospoopyformyshirt:

problems with turning swastika graffiti into windows:

• you know and I know and nazis know that it used to be a swastika
  
• the police probably don’t know or care that it used to be a swastika so they’re not gonna do anything about it
• it leaves the graffiti undocumented
• it leaves the graffiti unreported
• it doesn’t get the graffiti cleaned up
• affected groups still have to see it and know that a swastika was there

instead:

• take a picture of it
  
• report it
• make sure it’s documented
• make sure it gets cleaned up

I’d much rather see no swastika graffiti than see a window and think “the police won’t care about this because some ‘ally’ thought they were helping”

Yes, thank you!! This is extremely unhelpful. Speaking as a Jew, it is far better for allies of local minority communities to TAKE A PICTURE of the graffiti and document it, then ASSIST US IN REPORTING it to the police. Covering up the swastika with other imagery means that POLICE CANNOT PROSECUTE the incident as a hate crime and it becomes very unlikely that the vandal(s) will be caught. It may make you feel ~warm and fluffy~, but our communities know exactly what’s under that Windows logo and it does not make us less angry or afraid. Moreover, it makes clean-up /so much harder/ and only further vandalizes the structure (which, let’s be honest, is usually a Jewish house of worship, organization, or a Jewish-owned business). PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS. PLEASE.