“The institutionalization of the black ghetto at the beginning of the 20th century increased the exploitative possibilities of landed capital. As the black population in northern cities grew, real estate developers saw an opportunity to make handsome profits by buying up properties on the edges of the ghetto and slicing them into flats. Legal segregation meant that ghetto landlords had a captive tenant base and “had nothing to gain by improving [their] old houses” (Spear 1967, p. 148). The rise of the dual housing market (one white, one black) allowed landlords to charge blacks higher rents for worse housing. In postwar Chicago, blacks paid 15%–50% more in rent than whites living in similar accommodations (Hirsch 1983, p. 29). As late as 1960, the median monthly rent in Detroit was higher for blacks than for whites (Sugrue [1996] 2005, p. 54). ”
It took ArcturusXXXIII two clicks to end up on a Tumblr page filled
with apparent child porn. They say they’d simply gotten a follow, opened
the page and spotted a repost of a questionable image. When they opened
the page it came from, they saw graphic images with hundreds, even
thousands of likes.
Arcturus reported the content and got an automated response. Then
they tried to contact abuse@tumblr.com, but that email was no longer in
use. They waited four days, and nothing happened — the images were still
there when they checked. Fed up, Arcturus wrote an open letter
about the “hotbed of child pornography” on Tumblr, tweeting it at
Tumblr founder David Karp, CEO Jeff D’Onofrio and parent companies
Verizon and Oath. “Ignoring the problem, as you have done for so many
years, is clearly not working,” they wrote.
Three days later, shit hit the fan. First, Tumblr vanished from the App Store, reportedly over its child porn problem. Then came the announcement that rattled the internet: Tumblr would place a blanket ban on all adult content.
for people who didn’t know/forgot why tumblr actually banned all nsfw content in the first place
