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With the new update to Tumblr's community guidelines announcing that they will no longer permit adult content on their site, we'd like to take a moment to reassure all y'all that we have your backs. With a very few exceptions (such as spam and the like), if it's legal under US law, it's okay to post here. We're 100% user-supported, with no advertisers and no venture capitalists to please, and that means we're here for you, not for shady conglomerates that buy up your data and use it in nefarious ways.
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Tumblr's definition of "adult content" seems to be inherently visual, and I also wanted to remind people that we do have basic image hosting. (It's definitely not as slick and easy to use as Tumblr's, I won't lie, but it does exist.) If you want to include images in your posts, you can upload them and the site will give you HTML that you can paste into your entry. Or, if you have post-by-email set up, just attach the image to the end of your email and it'll be posted. All users have a 500MB image hosting quota right now. I know that's small for people looking for a place to host NSFW image blogs, but we are reviewing usage statistics to see if we can increase it, or at least make it possible for people to pay for more quota like you can for more icons.
For those asking whether we have a mobile app: we don't at the moment! There are many (soooooo many) prerequisites that we have to do first, which we've been working on but haven't yet finished, because we're dealing with a lot of systems and architecture decisions that were made nearly 20 years ago by now. (A mobile app would also be subject to the same censorship pressure Tumblr faced -- it's looking pretty good that Apple taking the Tumblr app out of the App Store was the proximate cause of Tumblr's content guidelines change, and Apple is notoriously strict on apps for sites that allow user-generated content -- so even once we have one, it's even odds on how long it'll be able to stay available for certain platforms.) We've been trying to improve the website's experience on small screens in the meantime, and that's an ongoing project that we'll do our best to devote some more attention to over the next few months.
Feel free to use the comments to this post to recommend communities to join and to make new friends, whether you're here for the first time as a Tumblr refugee or have been here since the start (and any range in between). To the newcomers: we're happy to have you join us. Welcome aboard!
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If the rule is based on benefit extraction -
- how shall we treat a musician posting concert announcements?
- a musician only posting concert announcements?
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Your examples are all fine. I'm talking about word salad auto generated posts with "buy cheap likes" linked every few phrases, that kind of thing.
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I hope some day machine-generated/machine-readable speech will enjoy the same protection and the same degrees of freedom as human-generated/human readable. But it's probably even further away than a world without borders and taxes.
Never mind. Thank you for the clarification!
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2. That aside, I'm not sure how
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Yes.
Before and until we have achieved AI singularity and personhood, a machine is different from a purely natural phenomenon in the sense that the former is necessarily a human agent and the latter is not.
By drawing a line on the sand between human agents you agree to treat as such and human agents that you do not, you are assuming that human rights aren't unalienable, but depend on particular means to exercise them.
As an engineer, I don't believe in any substantial difference between my limbs, my construction tools, my internal and external memory, my e-mail account and my bank account. All of them are means in my possession I have an unalienable right to use individually in combination in order to achieve any lawful goal. The Bill of Rights reflects it in the First (regarding information messages) and in the Second (regarding physical objects).
I understand that it's possible not to consider property rights fundamental and all others either derivative or not rights at all. It is, however, one of the only two logically consistent ways to make sure that the rights of a random Peter and a random Paul never come into conflict. The other one is not to believe that humans have any rights at all, which neither of us would likely be willing to accept.
If you'd like to continue, I'll have to ask "your place or my place" because I am not quite sure we're going to fit within the intended topics of
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Oh, that is so much worse than what I suspected you meant. No, there's no point in continuing this conversation. I withheld judgment thinking maybe I was misunderstanding benevolent concerns for the future of AI. Your further details lead me to believe you're very purposefully misinterpreting the Constitution for your own gains, so there's not much point in continuing the discussion.
Though, it would still be irrelevant in the context of spam on the internet. These companies are privately owned and so freedom of speech doesn't really apply except insofar as they allow it.
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So I debated reporting it since I like to help DW kick out spam but couldn't decide how it'd fall into DW guidelines. The account had no subscriptions/subscribers/access to or from and was recently created (but I don't know if I could even find it now since my history's since cleared).
My question is, if I see that sort of thing in the future, should I file a spam report on it? If it confuses me enough to doubt if I should report it, like the blog mentioned above basically did, should that be my guide right there (in other words, should I not report it if it seems "authentically written" enough, even if it does seem to exist only to point back to or highlight another website the journal owner owns)?
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Would the blog have looked similarly suspicious if it existed as a feed and the real estate blog were its RSS source?
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