Perhaps the world of 2044 will be as different from ours as 1979 now seems from our present time. But let us also echo this wish into the future— may they have peace and happiness.
genuinely one of the worst things that’s happened to television in the last few years (exacerbated by streaming services) is death of Filler. going from 20 episodes to 8 because “we didn’t really need that episode where the main characters went to the beach right? it had no long lasting effect” but we DID!!! we needed to see how they act without the Big Bad Plot and to establish the dynamics between the characters and lay in the sun (do they forget sunscreen? how do they react to a thieving seagull? do they get buried in the sand or do they do the burying?). the plot isn’t everything. the action doesn’t hit as hard without the quiet moments. give us character development and our little scenes back
These images are not explicit. These pictures show two adults, engaging in consensual kissing. That’s it. It isn’t violent, it isn’t pornographic. It’s literally just two adult humans sharing a kiss.
It’s ludicrous and insulting that – especially in 2018 – this is flagged, either by some sort of badly-designed algorithm, or by shitty homophobic people.
And to just restate something that I reblogged a little bit ago:
the reality is that for a lot of the LGTBQ+ community, particularly younger members still discovering themselves and members in extremely homophobic environments where most media sites were banned (but Tumblr wasn’t even considered important enough to be), this was a bastion of information and self-expression.
I am so lucky. I am so massively lucky and privileged. I’m rich, I’m white, I’m a CIS male in a heterosexual relationship. I can look just about anywhere in the world and see myself represented in art and media. My experience has been normalized to the exclusion and oppression of people who don’t share that experience.
That. Must. Change.
I can only imagine what it must feel like to fight every second of ever day just to exist in a world that is filled with people who share my demographic (but not my values) using their wealth and power and privilege to attack you, simply for being who you are, for existing. I can only imagine how terrible and suffocating and exhausting that must be.
According to marginalized and vulnerable people, this change in policy will directly hurt them, and that’s indefensible.
The ridiculousness of this policy change can be simply illustrated by the image here being flagged. Why was it flagged? Because homophobia is rampant and too many people who should stand up against it are cowards who don’t want to risk their own wealth and privilege in the service of people who can’t defend themselves.
I applaud and admire and respect the hell out of everyone in the LGBTQ community here who have formed networks and friendships and relationships and support structures for each other. You have worked so hard to create and maintain a safe space for each other, and I’m embarrassed, appalled, and furious that people who look like me are making your lives – hell, your very existence – so hard.
I’m just one person, and maybe it won’t matter or make a difference, but I stand with you, not just on this website, but in our entire universe. I see you. I love you. I value you.
Sheldon Cooper was wrong about you 😊
You’re all confusing technical issues for moral issues.
What this is, is software like Googles ”Similar Images”, and when that was very first released was pretty bad and some of the images you searched for, the guesses were way off base
So in this case, they’ve either written or purchased the software and have given it a group of images that is 100% NSFW (females presenting nipples or whatever)
Hey then scour all the images they have on this site and will be added to a queue, which a group of moderators will either say yes or no in regards to whether it’s SFW or not
Each response will help the software “learn” what is NSFW and what isn’t
What’s being flagged is not because it’s homophobic and specifically targeting Beautiful men kissing, or even fugly men kissing, it’s saying that these images have characteristics of what I’ve previously categorized as NSFW
So yeah it’s 2018, it should be better, the problem is they’ve ignored these issues for so long they’ve been forced to make snap decisions, and what should be a simpler fix becomes way more difficult in the context of such a short time
It’s gonna be a long time until perfectly safe images aren’t being flagged
That’s part of the problem. They’re using poorly programmed…uh…programs to track down and flag anything they deem unsuitable; 95% of the time, they wind up flagging things that are completely nonsexual. If this keeps up, half the posts on this site will be set to private on the 17th. This is a very hamfisted way to moderate a site, and that’s why I’m jumping ship as soon as I back up all of my content.
It’s not just lbgtq pictures that are being flagged. I saw perfectly normal pictures of people of color being flagged too.
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