DO NOT LET THEM TAKE AWAY OUR FREE ACCESS TO INFORMATION
TUMBLR IS RUN BY YAHOO WHICH IS RUN BY VERIZON, ONE OF THE BIGGEST FIGHTERS AGAINST NET NEUTRALITY. THEY ARE SILENCING US!
Tumblr is automatically unfollowing people from the net neutrality tag 20 minutes after following it. They are trying to silence us and silence the resistance.
this is your reminder that tumblr’s parent company, verizon (an active enemy of net neutrality) has been forcibly censoring net neutrality coverage on the site. posts have been deleted, people have been automatically unfollowed from the tag, and no matter how much anyone posts about it, they have blocked net neutrality from reaching the trending tags.
let me stress how important this is.
this is active media censorship.
and if net neutrality dies, you can expect to see a lot more of that in the future. (if you can still afford social media…)
i fully expect this post to be deleted. screenshot it. repost it. make an uproar! we cant let this happen!
keep spreading this message until the servers cant keep up anymore. keep going; never be silenced. tell everyone you know who enjoys the internet. spread this to facebook, twitter, instagram, anywhere. everyone deserves a free and neutral internet.
If anyone is gonna complain about the amount of net neutrality stuff I’m rebloging at the moment, y’all can fucking unfollow. This is serious. Help us win this war. Remember beliebers vs fandoms? Well now it’s more than our reputations at risk. It’s our lives as fangirls. It’s our ability to see the content we love so without having to pay extra. You know how so many closeted lgbt+ teens in dangerous situations find info on the internet? Well the websites they visit will show up on a nice little envelope delivered to their parent/guardian. The internet will no longer be a safe space.
I’ll tag some popular fandoms/groups to help spread this message.
Tried to @ the staff to get them specifically but magically my app decides to crash only then. DO NOT FORGET ABOUT NET NEUTRALITY!
NET NEUTRALITY ENSURES THAT EVERYONE CAN USE THE INTERNET FREELY. PLEASE LOOK INTO THE NET NEUTRALITY TAG AND REBLOG AS MUCH AS YOU CAN! DONT FOLLOW THE TAG, JUST SEARCH AND REBLOG WHAT YOU CAN. TUMBLR IS MAKING PEOPLE AUTO UNFOLLOW THE NET NEUTRALITY TAG AFTER ABOUT 20 MINUTES, SO KEEP LOOKING, KEEP REBLOGING, AND KEEP CALLING THE FIVE WHO HAVE AA VOTE IN OUR FREEDOM TO USE THE INTERNET!
If this happens, people struggling with their mental health and/or abusive situations, especially teenagers, will have to pay for access to the many hotline/chat services for suicide/crisis prevention, mental health support, drug safety and intervention, and general information about life they don’t teach in school/sex ed. The many forums that exist for all types of disorders/illnesses, if they can afford to stay afloat, will likely come in a separate “Forum” bundle, too. And since we are talking primarily about teenagers here, they will more likely ask their parents to buy these things for them, which is a problem for very obvious reasons.
Have you ever talked someone down from suicide over the internet? Helped them when they were cutting? Gave them emotional support at a fragile time? Becuase without net neutrality, a lot of those people will be out of your reach. A lot of them rely on their internet friends, because they may live in a shitty ass place, full of ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and racism. This is their safe place, this is what keeps them alive.
How many people figured out that they are normal, valid, and ok, all because of the internet? I’m willing to bet a lot of you reading this. Perhaps, because of the internet, you found out what being transgender was, and you just knew. Maybe, you realized that being asexual didn’t mean you were broken. Possibly you’ve seen others go through your same struggle, with depression, anxiety, bipolar, phobias, etc, and suddenly you were not alone.
Now imagine the next generation of kids growing up without this.
Let’s take a look at some screenshots of an article I was reading earlier today…
Keyword: was. They don’t support net neutrality anymore. Why you ask? well…
Tumblr is owned by Yahoo. Now that Verizon (a company that hates net neutrality) bought Yahoo, they have demanded that Tumblr must stop supporting net neutrality too. The Tumblr staff has stopped posting about net neutrality.
This site is being forced to hate net neutrality. (article link)
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