Tumblr and the All Mighty Evil...

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I’m getting more perturbed about the news that Tumblr will now be censoring all content to their website. It seems that the internet more and more is crumbling from the idea of what it once was. Sharing ideas, the ability to express yourself and most importantly, learn from others. I guess it should be no surprise as the powers that be always get their way and anything that could possibly go against their hypocritical ideals, gets stifled.

Regarding Tumblr, I’ve got images that are important to me back to September, 2012. Lots of the content all ready has, “Your post was flagged as explicit” in red over the image. And on the 17th of this month, 2 weeks from today, our grace period, most of my images will be gone.

In this relatively short period of time, 25 years since I started to dabble on the internet, it has taken over the world. We depend so heavily on it and give up so much of ourselves to it. Our privacy has been handed over, voluntarily. You think at this point the cloud is safe only for you?

I make photos and frankly, I am not too concerned about the safety of my images. If I were, nothing would be on the internet, nothing on facebook, nothing on tumblr, my blogs and websites...

I yearn to remove myself from the internet, but I can’t. It feeds me just enough to connect with you all and allow me the ability to share what I do. I’m realizing however that all these digital files will eventually be held hostage and taken from us. Though the idea once on the internet, always on the internet only goes so far as the powers that be will allow. I’m really getting disillusioned and frustrated.

Yes, the images I have on Tumblr I still have, so long as my hard drives will spin. But I know in my heart of hearts, they too will disappear as nothing lasts forever. But the thought that technology is the reason they will be removed from existing especially irritates the hell out of me. I am part of the giving of power to the very thing I also despise.

Make prints everybody. More than likely, they will last longer than what is on your phone, the cloud or frankly, hard drive.