The photo blog Spanking My Babygirl on tumblr.com was not the most erudite of sites, but over the last couple of years had published over 10,000 photos, videos, gifs and artwork, all of a spanking nature. This weekend, someone at tumblr decided enough was enough, and deleted the site.
This is not the first time that tumblr seems to have arbitrarily pulled the plug on a photo blog devoted to spanking topics.
The owner of this photo blog is now on his third iteration. Twice he found prior sites that he ran went poof in the night. He states he has no idea why they went, and that he had no prior warning. Someone at Tumblr took a dislike to his topic, one assumes, and quietly snuffed his blogs out of existence.
I suppose it is their site, and they are entitled to do whatever they want with it. But, come on - who are they trying to protect? Me? You? My Great-aunt Agatha in case she should stumble into it while wildly pressing keys to escape from a commercial porno-site she had been lured into?
Perhaps we need a new photo blog site. One that does not decide what it will permit its members to view, One where the innocent pleasure of watching others getting spanked is perfectly OK- without a single tut-tut of "mother-knows-best" and a gi-normous censor button.
If there is such an open minded ISP already in existence - the just need to let Chross know. I am sure he will publicize it and much traffic will come their way. In the meantime, the rest of us will just have to visit existing tumblr spanking sites and download all material of interest to the safety of our own pc's. Even tumblr cannot get at any stuff safely tucked away on our hard-drives. Not yet anyway - but I bet they wish they could.
The sites go poof not so much for censorship, but for copyright violation. There are people that make a living finding copyrighted materials and advising the site host.
ReplyDeleteI think one Tumblr site is as good as another, given enough time every site will have the same content via reposting. I suppose it's like collect all the baseball cards. When everyone has all the pictures we will all be happy?
I did not know that they took out an entire site for alleged copyright violations. According to my correspondent, if he had been aware that someone alleged he was in breach of copyright, he would have taken the picture down and tried to negotiate some sort of compensation. He says he was not given a chance: all he knew was that his site had vanished without warning.
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