sooolondon: karnythia: notforyoutobreak: “Hello Savannah,We realize this content may be very upsetting, but we also highly value freedom of expression and freedom of speech. Sometimes content posted by a blogger may be mean-spirited or upsetting but does not violate the law. In order to maintain freedom of expression, we cannot remove that material. This is not a real death threat, it’s just the blogger venting. You can and should stop viewing content from an offending blogger. If you use Tumblr, you can also Block a blogger at http://tumblr.com/block. This prevents you from seeing content from that blogger on your Dashboard and prevents that blogger from sending you messages via Tumblr. Thank you for taking the time to share your concern with us. Best Regards, Mathieu” (my full name and e-mail is censored on the screencap) I reported on behalf of DTWPS after seeing a death threat they got from one asshole who got offended by what they were saying.  I made a screenshot of the threat as well, but while it’s still not deleted, you can see it here (MAJOR TW in link for explicit violence and threats).  That’s the asshole who made the threat. In my report, I just basically said this person was saying some very vile and threatening things to DTWPS, and I didn’t feel safe on the site anymore if people can say shit like that.  Even if they weren’t srs, still, what they said was disgusting, triggering, and upsetting.  There is NO REASON TO GO THAT FAR.  NONE. And they’re trying to defend this asshole with the “freedom of speech” claim and saying that they were just ranting?  I don’t fucking think so. Tumblr staff never seems to understand their own TOS… Make a death threat to a black person and its “just venting” I also wanna know what motherfucking criminology degree these fuckers have that they can tell a real death threat from a fake one. I want another opinion, assholes.
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sooolondon:

karnythia:

notforyoutobreak:

“Hello Savannah,
We realize this content may be very upsetting, but we also highly value freedom of expression and freedom of speech.

Sometimes content posted by a blogger may be mean-spirited or upsetting but does not violate the law. In order to maintain freedom of expression, we cannot remove that material.

This is not a real death threat, it’s just the blogger venting.

You can and should stop viewing content from an offending blogger. If you use Tumblr, you can also Block a blogger at http://tumblr.com/block. This prevents you from seeing content from that blogger on your Dashboard and prevents that blogger from sending you messages via Tumblr.

Thank you for taking the time to share your concern with us.

Best Regards,

Mathieu”

(my full name and e-mail is censored on the screencap)

I reported on behalf of DTWPS after seeing a death threat they got from one asshole who got offended by what they were saying.  I made a screenshot of the threat as well, but while it’s still not deleted, you can see it here (MAJOR TW in link for explicit violence and threats).  That’s the asshole who made the threat.

In my report, I just basically said this person was saying some very vile and threatening things to DTWPS, and I didn’t feel safe on the site anymore if people can say shit like that.  Even if they weren’t srs, still, what they said was disgusting, triggering, and upsetting.  There is NO REASON TO GO THAT FAR.  NONE.

And they’re trying to defend this asshole with the “freedom of speech” claim and saying that they were just ranting?  I don’t fucking think so.

Tumblr staff never seems to understand their own TOS…

Make a death threat to a black person and its “just venting”

I also wanna know what motherfucking criminology degree these fuckers have that they can tell a real death threat from a fake one. I want another opinion, assholes.

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  1. lanomrah reblogged this from queennubian
  2. queennubian reblogged this from bad-dominicana and added:
    hold up, so you can threaten to kill someone on the interwebs and it’s all good as long as the threats are coming from...
  3. drunkenkurage reblogged this from feministjenn and added:
    Yea, I got that. What I meant was that I didn’t see how the original post was a big deal. Maybe I’m just a jaded...
  4. feministjenn reblogged this from drunkenkurage and added:
    DTWPS got death threats sent to hir tumblr, notforyoutobreak sent an email to tumblr support, and this was their...
  5. knittingandsljivovica reblogged this from anedumacation
  6. fatandgeeky reblogged this from cage-veil-cunt
  7. cage-veil-cunt reblogged this from stardustprince and added:
    Tumblr, what the fuck.
  8. elllikesbees reblogged this from karnythia and added:
    Jesus fucking christ, tumblr.
  9. sooolondon reblogged this from karnythia and added:
    Make a death threat to a black person and its “just venting”
  10. i-hear-other-words-behind reblogged this from thedarkamethyst and added:
    Tumblr Support? You’re a bunch of dumbfucks. How can a statement advocating lynching not be treated as hate speech?...
  11. denim-wrapped-nightmares reblogged this from b-mommy and added:
    Heads up, this is not me disagreeing in any way; dude’s a stone cold piece of shit. Problem is, the threat itself is so...
  12. spastasmagoria reblogged this from karnythia and added:
    Way to suck tumblr
  13. garpusstuff reblogged this from karnythia and added:
    WTF is this bullshit, Tumblr?
  14. stardustprince reblogged this from anedumacation and added:
    Seriously, tumblr? “It’s just venting”? That is just the shittiest excuse ever.
  15. 14kgoldnyc reblogged this from anedumacation
  16. abilla reblogged this from b-mommy
  17. anedumacation reblogged this from karnythia and added:
    I’m always fascinated by what is considered acceptable speech, and what is considered speech that crosses the line....