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Post Rita, Tumblr Fugitiv @mAD_h0F • Feb 19 tumblrs ceo threatened to call the police on me and deleted my account when i pointed out that he was calling law enforcement on a trans woman tumblr has not emailed me about my harrassment in months. theyve done nothing its been a week 1723 87 1.5K Matt Mullenweg ❤ @photomatt Follow Reporting credible threats of violence or terrorism is actually a legal requirement. No one reported your "i hope photomatt dies forever a painful death", however. There's no problem with your transition photos, or the millions of others that have been posted. 6:12 AM Feb 22, 2024 87 Views
Post Rita, Tumblr Fugitiv @mAD_h0F • Feb 19 tumblrs ceo threatened to call the police on me and deleted my account when i pointed out that he was calling law enforcement on a trans woman tumblr has not emailed me about my harrassment in months. theyve done nothing its been a week 1723 87 1.5K Matt Mullenweg ❤ @photomatt Follow Reporting credible threats of violence or terrorism is actually a legal requirement. No one reported your "i hope photomatt dies forever a painful death", however. There's no problem with your transition photos, or the millions of others that have been posted. 6:12 AM Feb 22, 2024 87 Views

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← Post Rita, Tumblr Fugitiv @mAD_hØF⚫ Feb 20 literally too much for tumblr to handle NO 3 2718 126 Ilil 1.4K Matt Mullenweg @photomatt Follow These photos are fine for Tumblr. Someone else could post them. You can't because you violated the community guidelines and terms of service multiple times and are banned for life. With your new accounts on other services, consider not posting deathwishes against their staff. • 6:14 AM Feb 22, 2024 153 Views
← Post Rita, Tumblr Fugitiv @mAD_hØF⚫ Feb 20 literally too much for tumblr to handle NO 3 2718 126 Ilil 1.4K Matt Mullenweg @photomatt Follow These photos are fine for Tumblr. Someone else could post them. You can't because you violated the community guidelines and terms of service multiple times and are banned for life. With your new accounts on other services, consider not posting deathwishes against their staff. • 6:14 AM Feb 22, 2024 153 Views

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A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic (from Offical Tumblr Staff Account)

staff ♥ A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic: We want trans people, and LGBTQ+ people broadly, to feel welcome on Tumblr, in part because we as trans people at Tumblr and Automattic want it to be a space where we ourselves feel included. We want to feel like this is a platform that supports us and fights for our safety. Tumblr is made brighter and more vibrant by your presence, and the LGBTQ+ folks who help run it are fighting all the time for this, for you, internally. A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg (the CEO of Automattic, Tumblr's parent company) responded to a user's ask about an account suspension in a way that negatively affected Tumblr's LGBTQ+ community. We believe that Matt's response to this ask and his continued commentary has been unwarranted and harmful. Tumblr staff do not comment on moderation decisions as a matter of policy for a variety of reasons-including the privacy of those involved, and the practicalities of moderating thousands of reports a day. The downside of this policy is that it is very easy for rumors and incorrect information about actions taken by our Trust & Safety team to spread unchecked. Given this, we want to clarify a few different pieces of this situation: • The reality of predstrogen's suspension was not accurately conveyed, and made it seem like we were reaching for opportunities to ban trans feminine people on the platform. This is not the case. The example comment shared in the post linked above does not meet our definition of a realistic threat of violence, and was not the deciding factor in the account suspension. • Matt thereafter failed to recognize the harm to the community as a result of this suspension. Matt does not speak on behalf of the LGBTQ+ people who help run Tumblr or Automattic, and we were not consulted in the construction of a response to these events. • Last year, the "mature" and "sexual themes" community labels were erroneously applied to some users' posts. An outside team of contractors tasked with applying community labels to posts were responsible for this larger trend of mislabeling trans-related content. When our Trust & Safety team discovered this issue (thanks largely to reports from the community), we removed the contracted team's ability to apply community labels and added more oversight to ensure it does not happen again. In the Staff post about this, LGBTQ+ staff pushed to be more transparent but were overruled by leadership. The termination of a contractor mentioned in the original ask response was for an unrelated incident which was incorrectly attributed to this case. We regret that the mislabeling ever happened, and the negative impact it has had on the trans community on Tumblr. • Transition timelines are not against our community guidelines, and weren't a factor considered by the moderation team when discussing suspensions and subsequent appeals. We do not take action against content that is related to transitioning or trans bodies unless it includes violations of the Community Guidelines. • When it comes to the experience of trans folks on Tumblr encountering transphobic content, and interacting with bigoted users, we understand and share your frustrations. Tumblr's policies, and Automattic's policies, are written to ensure freedom of speech and expression. We prohibit harassment as defined in our Community Guidelines, but we know that this policy falls short of protecting users from the wider scope of harmful speech often used against LGBTQ+ and other marginalized people. Going forward, Tumblr is taking the following actions: Prioritizing anti-harassment features that will empower users to more effectively protect themselves from harassment. • Building more internal tooling for us as Staff to proactively identify and mitigate instances of harassment. • Reviewing which of the tags frequently used by the trans community are blocked, and working to make them available next week. We're sorry for how this all transpired, and we're actively fighting to make our voices heard more and prevent something like this from happening again in the future. We know firsthand that having to deal with situations like this as a Tumblr user is difficult, particularly as a member of an already frequently targeted and harassed community. We know it will take time to regain your trust, and we're going to put in the work to rebuild it. We appreciate the space we have been given to express our concerns and dissent, and we are thankful that Matt's (and Automattic's) strong commitment to freedom of expression has facilitated it. We will continue to fight to make Tumblr safe for us all. - This statement was authored by multiple trans employees of Tumblr and Automattic. #announcements #transgender #trans rights #trans
staff ♥ A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic: We want trans people, and LGBTQ+ people broadly, to feel welcome on Tumblr, in part because we as trans people at Tumblr and Automattic want it to be a space where we ourselves feel included. We want to feel like this is a platform that supports us and fights for our safety. Tumblr is made brighter and more vibrant by your presence, and the LGBTQ+ folks who help run it are fighting all the time for this, for you, internally. A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg (the CEO of Automattic, Tumblr's parent company) responded to a user's ask about an account suspension in a way that negatively affected Tumblr's LGBTQ+ community. We believe that Matt's response to this ask and his continued commentary has been unwarranted and harmful. Tumblr staff do not comment on moderation decisions as a matter of policy for a variety of reasons-including the privacy of those involved, and the practicalities of moderating thousands of reports a day. The downside of this policy is that it is very easy for rumors and incorrect information about actions taken by our Trust & Safety team to spread unchecked. Given this, we want to clarify a few different pieces of this situation: • The reality of predstrogen's suspension was not accurately conveyed, and made it seem like we were reaching for opportunities to ban trans feminine people on the platform. This is not the case. The example comment shared in the post linked above does not meet our definition of a realistic threat of violence, and was not the deciding factor in the account suspension. • Matt thereafter failed to recognize the harm to the community as a result of this suspension. Matt does not speak on behalf of the LGBTQ+ people who help run Tumblr or Automattic, and we were not consulted in the construction of a response to these events. • Last year, the "mature" and "sexual themes" community labels were erroneously applied to some users' posts. An outside team of contractors tasked with applying community labels to posts were responsible for this larger trend of mislabeling trans-related content. When our Trust & Safety team discovered this issue (thanks largely to reports from the community), we removed the contracted team's ability to apply community labels and added more oversight to ensure it does not happen again. In the Staff post about this, LGBTQ+ staff pushed to be more transparent but were overruled by leadership. The termination of a contractor mentioned in the original ask response was for an unrelated incident which was incorrectly attributed to this case. We regret that the mislabeling ever happened, and the negative impact it has had on the trans community on Tumblr. • Transition timelines are not against our community guidelines, and weren't a factor considered by the moderation team when discussing suspensions and subsequent appeals. We do not take action against content that is related to transitioning or trans bodies unless it includes violations of the Community Guidelines. • When it comes to the experience of trans folks on Tumblr encountering transphobic content, and interacting with bigoted users, we understand and share your frustrations. Tumblr's policies, and Automattic's policies, are written to ensure freedom of speech and expression. We prohibit harassment as defined in our Community Guidelines, but we know that this policy falls short of protecting users from the wider scope of harmful speech often used against LGBTQ+ and other marginalized people. Going forward, Tumblr is taking the following actions: Prioritizing anti-harassment features that will empower users to more effectively protect themselves from harassment. • Building more internal tooling for us as Staff to proactively identify and mitigate instances of harassment. • Reviewing which of the tags frequently used by the trans community are blocked, and working to make them available next week. We're sorry for how this all transpired, and we're actively fighting to make our voices heard more and prevent something like this from happening again in the future. We know firsthand that having to deal with situations like this as a Tumblr user is difficult, particularly as a member of an already frequently targeted and harassed community. We know it will take time to regain your trust, and we're going to put in the work to rebuild it. We appreciate the space we have been given to express our concerns and dissent, and we are thankful that Matt's (and Automattic's) strong commitment to freedom of expression has facilitated it. We will continue to fight to make Tumblr safe for us all. - This statement was authored by multiple trans employees of Tumblr and Automattic. #announcements #transgender #trans rights #trans

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Rita, Tumblr Fugitive @mAD_hØPZ - 19h a man worth $400,000,000 followed me to another website to publicly out me as owner of the tumblr username "showersharts" on my selfies over internet drama when he banned me 3 times in a week and mentioned calling the cops incredible x.com/photomatt/stat... This post is unavailable. 13 131 Rita, Tumblr Fugitive @mAD_hØPZ 1K ₁310K 9:57 AM Feb 22, 2024 26.5K Views In predstrogen's case in addition to some mistagged sexually explicit posts, which on its own wouldn't be that bad, we have 口企 for the record, half of these were blank and were just funny urls i had on a sideblog in case i wanted to change to it. even then, the man said i was banned for harrassment, not sexual content. hes backtracking and seeking me out. avewy and cyprederone broke no rules either :
Rita, Tumblr Fugitive @mAD_hØPZ - 19h a man worth $400,000,000 followed me to another website to publicly out me as owner of the tumblr username "showersharts" on my selfies over internet drama when he banned me 3 times in a week and mentioned calling the cops incredible x.com/photomatt/stat... This post is unavailable. 13 131 Rita, Tumblr Fugitive @mAD_hØPZ 1K ₁310K 9:57 AM Feb 22, 2024 26.5K Views In predstrogen's case in addition to some mistagged sexually explicit posts, which on its own wouldn't be that bad, we have 口企 for the record, half of these were blank and were just funny urls i had on a sideblog in case i wanted to change to it. even then, the man said i was banned for harrassment, not sexual content. hes backtracking and seeking me out. avewy and cyprederone broke no rules either :

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Rita, Tumblr Fugitive @mAD_h0....1d literally too much for tumblr to handle 5 MIC 1722 Matt Mullenweg @photomatt 179 2.2K Follow Replying to @mAD_hOPZ When will you be honest with your followers? That the repeated adult content violations were not pictures like this, but likely ones on your other accounts (actual names): irishbigcockgirl, burgerfootjob, furryvore-burps, bredstrogen, cumburp, doggirlballsack, hungqueen, bigtittycockgf, bigcocktittygf, girltaint, muskmommy, girlballsack, showersharts, sapiosexual-breeder, catgirlhairball, catgirlcondom, catgirlcumsock, catgirlballsack, cumspangler 12:45 22 Feb 24 · 2,404 Views
Rita, Tumblr Fugitive @mAD_h0....1d literally too much for tumblr to handle 5 MIC 1722 Matt Mullenweg @photomatt 179 2.2K Follow Replying to @mAD_hOPZ When will you be honest with your followers? That the repeated adult content violations were not pictures like this, but likely ones on your other accounts (actual names): irishbigcockgirl, burgerfootjob, furryvore-burps, bredstrogen, cumburp, doggirlballsack, hungqueen, bigtittycockgf, bigcocktittygf, girltaint, muskmommy, girlballsack, showersharts, sapiosexual-breeder, catgirlhairball, catgirlcondom, catgirlcumsock, catgirlballsack, cumspangler 12:45 22 Feb 24 · 2,404 Views

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the ceo couldve absolutely just gotten away with this still right after the c/a/r h/a/m/m/e/r postin...

jame7t I mean this genuinely: the ceo couldve absolutely just gotten away with this still right after the c/a/r h/a/m/m/e/r posting saga if he just stayed on vacation. Following a woman to a second website (AFTER SHE SAID SHE WAS DONE WITH THIS ONE) and continuing the drama, blaming her for being banned (when the crux of the issue wasn't even the bans, it was the repeated harassment staff did nothing about!) I seriously don't think he realizes how much this undermines this platform and staff. Like, dude, come on. "If you don't like it, leave!" Is not a good response, especially if you're going to follow her to a different site anyway and personally bother her. He's even complained about receiving death threats- and death threats are bad! It's bad to have death threats sent to you. So why is it ok when they're sent to her? Like that was the issue. THAT was the issue. And from all his posting it seriously seems like he doesn't get that. The time to own up to s--- and apologize was a few days ago at this point. This is putting a lot of really bad behaviors on display in front of two websites now.
jame7t I mean this genuinely: the ceo couldve absolutely just gotten away with this still right after the c/a/r h/a/m/m/e/r posting saga if he just stayed on vacation. Following a woman to a second website (AFTER SHE SAID SHE WAS DONE WITH THIS ONE) and continuing the drama, blaming her for being banned (when the crux of the issue wasn't even the bans, it was the repeated harassment staff did nothing about!) I seriously don't think he realizes how much this undermines this platform and staff. Like, dude, come on. "If you don't like it, leave!" Is not a good response, especially if you're going to follow her to a different site anyway and personally bother her. He's even complained about receiving death threats- and death threats are bad! It's bad to have death threats sent to you. So why is it ok when they're sent to her? Like that was the issue. THAT was the issue. And from all his posting it seriously seems like he doesn't get that. The time to own up to s--- and apologize was a few days ago at this point. This is putting a lot of really bad behaviors on display in front of two websites now.

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Excellent work sire you’ve reached new depths of spinelessness and ineptitude

juniepops Incredibly intelligent maneuver by tumblr ceo to make a post that boils down to "if you want to deserve staff looking into preventing your months of harassment as well as explaining why your accounts keep getting scorched-earth deleted when you've made a point to follow TOS, you have to avoid hurting OUR special feelings or we'll call the FBI on you. This is totally not transphobic despite only happening to trans women btw" and then delete the same trans woman's account again. Excellent work sire you've reached new depths of spinelessness and ineptitude
juniepops Incredibly intelligent maneuver by tumblr ceo to make a post that boils down to "if you want to deserve staff looking into preventing your months of harassment as well as explaining why your accounts keep getting scorched-earth deleted when you've made a point to follow TOS, you have to avoid hurting OUR special feelings or we'll call the FBI on you. This is totally not transphobic despite only happening to trans women btw" and then delete the same trans woman's account again. Excellent work sire you've reached new depths of spinelessness and ineptitude

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I wish photomatt a very lose all your money

magicalgirlmindcrank Follow God photomatt following Avery to Twitter to commit DATA LAW BREACHES and effectively STALKING AND HARASSING HER when Avery's only complain in the first place was not getting any help with all the STALKING AND HARASSMENT she suffered for TWO GODDAMN YEARS is genuinely f------ INSANE. I wish photomatt a very lose all your money.
magicalgirlmindcrank Follow God photomatt following Avery to Twitter to commit DATA LAW BREACHES and effectively STALKING AND HARASSING HER when Avery's only complain in the first place was not getting any help with all the STALKING AND HARASSMENT she suffered for TWO GODDAMN YEARS is genuinely f------ INSANE. I wish photomatt a very lose all your money.

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Literally never seen a blog get deleted as hard as they deleted predstrogen.

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IN WHAT WAY DID EITHER OF THESE IMAGES VIOLATE TUMBLR’S TOS?

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imagine if tumblr actually took threats & harassment campaigns against their users as seriously as t...

girlballs imagine if tumblr actually took threats & harassment campaigns against their users as seriously as the personal feelings of their pissbaby CEO
girlballs imagine if tumblr actually took threats & harassment campaigns against their users as seriously as the personal feelings of their pissbaby CEO

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Image is the tumbnail profile pic of blogs marked as "Mature Content"

foone Packard Bell D Packard Bell I added a new pride flag to VGAPride: it's the Tumblr Pride Flag! This variant is local to Tumblr and was invented sometime since December 17th, 2018, and is used to celebrate your pride in the fact you're a trans woman on Tumblr and are about to get permanently banned for life. Here it's displayed on my Pentium-75mhz running DOS 6.22. (user was banned for this post)
foone Packard Bell D Packard Bell I added a new pride flag to VGAPride: it's the Tumblr Pride Flag! This variant is local to Tumblr and was invented sometime since December 17th, 2018, and is used to celebrate your pride in the fact you're a trans woman on Tumblr and are about to get permanently banned for life. Here it's displayed on my Pentium-75mhz running DOS 6.22. (user was banned for this post)

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how does he think "follow the user that made me look bad (because of the objectively bad PR i genera...

cottoncandylesbo Follow dude this is unrecoverable the f--- is matt doing cottoncandylesbo like seriously how does he think "follow the user that made me look bad (because of the objectively bad PR i generate) to another platform and attempt to harass and blackmail them into silence" could make anything better
cottoncandylesbo Follow dude this is unrecoverable the f--- is matt doing cottoncandylesbo like seriously how does he think "follow the user that made me look bad (because of the objectively bad PR i generate) to another platform and attempt to harass and blackmail them into silence" could make anything better

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Imagine deciding to openly threaten to just nuke the entire website lmfao

carry-on-my-wayward-butt As far as I'm aware improving moderation tools both for staff and regular users wasn't on Tumblr's roadmap when I left, but I hope this raises awareness within the team. When I'm back to work in May this will definitely be on my mind, as well as if we should continue to invest Tumblr at all if it's going to harbor such toxicity and harassment. The mob misinformation and harassment makes people scared to work on Tumblr, and likely drives away scores of good creators, Blaze posters, advertisers, and subscribers-the folks who will make Tumblr a sustainable endeavor. imagine getting twenty four hours of a fraction of a taste of what marginalized bloggers on this f------ site have been told "doesn't break TOS" for the past 15 years and deciding to openly threaten to just nuke the entire website lmfao
carry-on-my-wayward-butt As far as I'm aware improving moderation tools both for staff and regular users wasn't on Tumblr's roadmap when I left, but I hope this raises awareness within the team. When I'm back to work in May this will definitely be on my mind, as well as if we should continue to invest Tumblr at all if it's going to harbor such toxicity and harassment. The mob misinformation and harassment makes people scared to work on Tumblr, and likely drives away scores of good creators, Blaze posters, advertisers, and subscribers-the folks who will make Tumblr a sustainable endeavor. imagine getting twenty four hours of a fraction of a taste of what marginalized bloggers on this f------ site have been told "doesn't break TOS" for the past 15 years and deciding to openly threaten to just nuke the entire website lmfao

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THEY DELETED DREP??

predstrogen hey who wants to see my new favourite snow leopard photo ever s content has been noved for violating mblr's Community idelines. predstrogen s content has been noved for violating mblr's Community idelines. predesterone THEY DELETED DREP?? pyros-random-thoughts Follow DONT WORRY GUYS I HAVE BACKUP DREP Riverbank Studios YOU DMIT udios
predstrogen hey who wants to see my new favourite snow leopard photo ever s content has been noved for violating mblr's Community idelines. predstrogen s content has been noved for violating mblr's Community idelines. predesterone THEY DELETED DREP?? pyros-random-thoughts Follow DONT WORRY GUYS I HAVE BACKUP DREP Riverbank Studios YOU DMIT udios

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i worry that wider tumblr is gonna do that thing where a joke gets divorced from its context

wondlas Follow ... i worry that wider tumblr is gonna do that thing where a joke gets divorced from its context and this situation is going to go from being known as "tumblrs horrific transmisogyny and the ceos childish response" to just "haha the ceo had a meltdown about a loony tunes esque post"
wondlas Follow ... i worry that wider tumblr is gonna do that thing where a joke gets divorced from its context and this situation is going to go from being known as "tumblrs horrific transmisogyny and the ceos childish response" to just "haha the ceo had a meltdown about a loony tunes esque post"

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