oh god fucking Dammit now you can report “an illustration or other depiction of child sexual abuse that does not feature a real person” apparently? 4k-ultra post 178330290740. euuuuuuungh. why now. please.
This is in fact a thing, and I’m not gonna lie – I think it’s the smartest thing tumblr has ever done.
I mean, if a significant number of users are going to keep reporting fictional works for ‘harm to minors’ regardless of whether or not this option exists, you might as well give them the option. That way they presort their own report out of the ‘direct harm to a real minor’ emergency line right away.
Basically, this strikes me as a clever way to make it easier for tumblr to tell reports of real cp from everything else from the get-go, which will protect real exploited minors much more effectively. Seems smart!
Until we see how tumblr chooses to handle these reports, we can’t know what – if any – kind of fictional content involving minors that tumblr intends to take action on. They may very well be intending to restrict the kind of fictional content they allow on their platform. But whether they do or not, this gives the dangerous, obviously harmful content its own line – and the fiction can get slower attention without gumming up the works.
To be clear: if the reports are acted on and there’s no clear line drawn between what kind of fictional content is allowed and what isn’t, this is hella dangerous. I still think that nsfw blogs should back their shit up immediately. But either way, I still think making a separate abuse line for fictional content will help protect victims of real cp more effectively.
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