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oh thats thats the ceo of tumblr banning several trans women from the platform for and threatening them with violence and legal action for complaining about the complete lack of effort or moderation to try and stop the targeted harrassment campaigns on tumblr and misgendering the trans woman who he banned for life twice in the process
oh thats thats the ceo of tumblr banning several trans women from the platform for and threatening them with violence and legal action for complaining about the complete lack of effort or moderation to try and stop the targeted harrassment campaigns on tumblr and misgendering the trans woman who he banned for life twice in the process

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Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy

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Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy
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Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy

dancing-coyote: holycrapitsbags: .....….....…......................…... chavisory: (via queenfrau) funnytwittertweets: ……………………………….………………………………………….. This content has been removed for violating Tumblr's Community Guidelines. [Tweet by Gillian Branstetter reads "If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship then they probably aren't as biological or innate as you think they are] This post is now a work of political art that is just A+ February 202024 "Why does this site have a reputation for transphobia?" - The site's literal owner, two hours ago
dancing-coyote: holycrapitsbags: .....….....…......................…... chavisory: (via queenfrau) funnytwittertweets: ……………………………….………………………………………….. This content has been removed for violating Tumblr's Community Guidelines. [Tweet by Gillian Branstetter reads "If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship then they probably aren't as biological or innate as you think they are] This post is now a work of political art that is just A+ February 202024 "Why does this site have a reputation for transphobia?" - The site's literal owner, two hours ago

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Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy

it almost goes without saying but for posterity's sake i want people to remember that during @photomatt's meltdown last night he dmed dozens and dozens of people (near exclusively trans women, For Some Inexplicable Reason), sometimes less than a Minute after they left a reply, responded to a post of his, or even just Made Their Own Post about it. photomatt ↓x photomatt Co-founder WordPress; CEO Automattic; Currently running Tumblr Not following each other Not sure the point you're trying to make. That we should continue to serve customers that make threats of violence against staff and harass other users? oh my god you really are having a meltdown about this aren't you. this is so like. pure intimidation tactics at their most blatant and obvious. why else would you sit on your namesearch, refreshing and refreshing and Instantly jumping into our dms the second we participated in the conversation. that isn't normal, not for a ceo and not for like, Anyone Else for that matter. matt spent a lot of his little episode making sure everyone knew he didn't think he was a transmisogynist. that was very important to him, that he defended himself from that. congratulations bud you f----- it
it almost goes without saying but for posterity's sake i want people to remember that during @photomatt's meltdown last night he dmed dozens and dozens of people (near exclusively trans women, For Some Inexplicable Reason), sometimes less than a Minute after they left a reply, responded to a post of his, or even just Made Their Own Post about it. photomatt ↓x photomatt Co-founder WordPress; CEO Automattic; Currently running Tumblr Not following each other Not sure the point you're trying to make. That we should continue to serve customers that make threats of violence against staff and harass other users? oh my god you really are having a meltdown about this aren't you. this is so like. pure intimidation tactics at their most blatant and obvious. why else would you sit on your namesearch, refreshing and refreshing and Instantly jumping into our dms the second we participated in the conversation. that isn't normal, not for a ceo and not for like, Anyone Else for that matter. matt spent a lot of his little episode making sure everyone knew he didn't think he was a transmisogynist. that was very important to him, that he defended himself from that. congratulations bud you f----- it

Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy
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Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy

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Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy

fishermod Follow https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/25/22949293/tumblr-nycchr- : settlement-adult-content-ban-algorithmic-bias-lgbtq For those who don't remember, here's the lawsuit two years ago where Tumblr (or specifically Automattic) settled with the New York City Commission on Human Rights regarding Tumblr's terribly implemented p--- ban targeting LGBTQ folk more than it should. Here's an excerpt detailing what the NYCCHR ordered Tumblr to do: The settlement gives Tumblr 180 days to hire an expert on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) issues and provide related training to moderators. It must also hire someone with experience in this area as well as expertise in image classification, who will review Tumblr's moderation algorithms to see if they're more likely to flag LGBTQ content. As part of an overall review, Tumblr will reexamine 3,000 old cases where a user successfully appealed a takedown, looking for patterns that could indicate bias. Now, on a totally unrelated note, here's the complaint page for reporting discrimination to the NYCCHR. Completely unrelated to what's going on right now or the rest of this post, I swear. [edited since it looks like the link broke somehow] [edit #2: again, for unrelated reasons, here's a link to a post about the San Francisco equivalent] #transgender #tumblr
fishermod Follow https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/25/22949293/tumblr-nycchr- : settlement-adult-content-ban-algorithmic-bias-lgbtq For those who don't remember, here's the lawsuit two years ago where Tumblr (or specifically Automattic) settled with the New York City Commission on Human Rights regarding Tumblr's terribly implemented p--- ban targeting LGBTQ folk more than it should. Here's an excerpt detailing what the NYCCHR ordered Tumblr to do: The settlement gives Tumblr 180 days to hire an expert on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) issues and provide related training to moderators. It must also hire someone with experience in this area as well as expertise in image classification, who will review Tumblr's moderation algorithms to see if they're more likely to flag LGBTQ content. As part of an overall review, Tumblr will reexamine 3,000 old cases where a user successfully appealed a takedown, looking for patterns that could indicate bias. Now, on a totally unrelated note, here's the complaint page for reporting discrimination to the NYCCHR. Completely unrelated to what's going on right now or the rest of this post, I swear. [edited since it looks like the link broke somehow] [edit #2: again, for unrelated reasons, here's a link to a post about the San Francisco equivalent] #transgender #tumblr

Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy
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Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy

predstrogen predstrogen predstrogen i hope photomatt dies forever a painful death involving a car covered in hammers that explodes more than a few times and hammers go flying everywhere how long until deathwishes against the ceo get me banned or flagged. right now im p----- off enough that i want to find out
predstrogen predstrogen predstrogen i hope photomatt dies forever a painful death involving a car covered in hammers that explodes more than a few times and hammers go flying everywhere how long until deathwishes against the ceo get me banned or flagged. right now im p----- off enough that i want to find out

Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy
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Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy

photomatt✔✔ Follow changelingrain asked: it's been four hours and nothing you've said has made this decision look better, congratulations on the successful transmisogyny! you have, to be clear, f----- it. I am genuinely sorry. I wanted to respond to what seemed like big concerns, and what I believe to be fully false accusation of transmisogyny. My responses seem to have just stoked the flames, and made people madder and more dug in on their perception of Tumblr staff, and now a lot of that is directed at me personally. For those who think my responses made it worse than if we had just never commented at all, which is the standard policy, I have failed you, failed in what I was trying to communicate, and I am sorry.
photomatt✔✔ Follow changelingrain asked: it's been four hours and nothing you've said has made this decision look better, congratulations on the successful transmisogyny! you have, to be clear, f----- it. I am genuinely sorry. I wanted to respond to what seemed like big concerns, and what I believe to be fully false accusation of transmisogyny. My responses seem to have just stoked the flames, and made people madder and more dug in on their perception of Tumblr staff, and now a lot of that is directed at me personally. For those who think my responses made it worse than if we had just never commented at all, which is the standard policy, I have failed you, failed in what I was trying to communicate, and I am sorry.

Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy
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Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy

photomatt✔✔ Follow puppydragonbite asked: all you ever do is drop the ban hammer on trans women you don't like, while casually ignoring the harassment they face because of your ineptitude, well done you mis- erable bag of lies AHBARINGWEN IST #ama #moderation #tumblr THER SE Community guideline violations, including mistagging, harassment of other users, and threats of violence, all three of which were repeated in predstrogen's case, were the reasons for the suspension, not her identity. There are obviously tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of trans men and women on this site-why would our accused transphobia be applied to just this one user? The most parsimonious explanation is that it was because of the stated community guideline violations, not her identity as a trans woman.
photomatt✔✔ Follow puppydragonbite asked: all you ever do is drop the ban hammer on trans women you don't like, while casually ignoring the harassment they face because of your ineptitude, well done you mis- erable bag of lies AHBARINGWEN IST #ama #moderation #tumblr THER SE Community guideline violations, including mistagging, harassment of other users, and threats of violence, all three of which were repeated in predstrogen's case, were the reasons for the suspension, not her identity. There are obviously tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of trans men and women on this site-why would our accused transphobia be applied to just this one user? The most parsimonious explanation is that it was because of the stated community guideline violations, not her identity as a trans woman.

Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy
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Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy

In predstrogen's case in addition to some mistagged sexually explicit posts, which on its own wouldn't be that bad, we have documented cases of harassment against other users. Most importantly, and why she is banned from Tumblr for life, is she made threats of violence against Tumblr staff. 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. 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. (2 hours later update: I have changed instances of the pronoun "they" or "their" to "the account" because I am unaware of pronoun preference in this instance and don't want to misgender anyone. Thank you for the people who reported this as an issue. Update 2: "She" is apparently better, the post now says that. Sorry for the mistake.) Here's one (of many!) examples of the harassment violations, this one targets me but there are others targeting other users on the site. predstrogen predstrogen predstrogen i hope photomatt dies forever a painful death involving a car covered in hammers that explodes more than a few times and hammers go flying everywhere how long until deathwishes against the ceo get me banned or flagged. right now im p----- off enough that i want to find out The second part seems to indicate she wanted to be suspended, I'm unaware of why, perhaps to create this sort of uproar. #transgender #tumblr #ama #automattic #predstrogen
In predstrogen's case in addition to some mistagged sexually explicit posts, which on its own wouldn't be that bad, we have documented cases of harassment against other users. Most importantly, and why she is banned from Tumblr for life, is she made threats of violence against Tumblr staff. 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. 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. (2 hours later update: I have changed instances of the pronoun "they" or "their" to "the account" because I am unaware of pronoun preference in this instance and don't want to misgender anyone. Thank you for the people who reported this as an issue. Update 2: "She" is apparently better, the post now says that. Sorry for the mistake.) Here's one (of many!) examples of the harassment violations, this one targets me but there are others targeting other users on the site. predstrogen predstrogen predstrogen i hope photomatt dies forever a painful death involving a car covered in hammers that explodes more than a few times and hammers go flying everywhere how long until deathwishes against the ceo get me banned or flagged. right now im p----- off enough that i want to find out The second part seems to indicate she wanted to be suspended, I'm unaware of why, perhaps to create this sort of uproar. #transgender #tumblr #ama #automattic #predstrogen

Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy
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Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy

photomatt Follow cowgirl-cow-girl asked: You gonna do anything or make any statement about the rampant transmisogyny on this hellsite, especially in cases like predstrogen recently? Or yall gonna stay silent and keep letting/making us get pushed off of it. : I have a number of asks about this, so this is to address all of them, I won't do each individually. We generally do not comment on individual cases, but because there seems to be mass misinformation around this, I will make an exception and comment on predstrogen. 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. 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 am not aware of any Automattician (people who work at Automattic and Tumblr) who has made any transphobic moderation actions. If it's reported it is investigated immediately, if anything were found that person would be terminated for cause immediately.
photomatt Follow cowgirl-cow-girl asked: You gonna do anything or make any statement about the rampant transmisogyny on this hellsite, especially in cases like predstrogen recently? Or yall gonna stay silent and keep letting/making us get pushed off of it. : I have a number of asks about this, so this is to address all of them, I won't do each individually. We generally do not comment on individual cases, but because there seems to be mass misinformation around this, I will make an exception and comment on predstrogen. 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. 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 am not aware of any Automattician (people who work at Automattic and Tumblr) who has made any transphobic moderation actions. If it's reported it is investigated immediately, if anything were found that person would be terminated for cause immediately.

Tumblr CEO Transphobic Moderation Controversy
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