Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs
Yea? How about drugs, drug use is self harm. How long till those blogs are banned. How about body mods, extreme body mods are harmful. When will they start to be banned. All this is, is SOPA in smaller steps.One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech,…
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I’m in wholehearted agreement with this policy. Granted, it may be a slippery slope on the path to censorship, BUT I don’t think there is anyone who (at the moment) is psychologically sound that will argue against this policy. Encouraging people to hurt themselves is wrong and there’s no getting around that. Anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders ARE self harm, and they can cause serious damage to a person. Basically, if it is fairly likely to end in death, they have a right to prevent people from promoting it in their domain space.
