Verizon has completed its acquisition of Tumblr parent company Yahoo, and is preventing Tumblr from participating in the day to save Net Neutrality next month on July 12, 2017. Tumblr can also no longer freely participate in political protest like it did before.
Furthermore, Yahoo senior VP and head of Media Brands and Products
Simon Khalaf
gave a speech at
the all-hands meeting at Tumblr last month, where he explicitly stated that
Black Lives Matter is among several communities that the company should focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers.
One told The Verge, “Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to [make] a ton of money.”
“In addition, at the all-hands meeting at Tumblr last month, all three sources say Khalaf gave a speech that shocked much of the staff. One source described the talk as “a whole bunch of terrible, shitty corporate speak,” in which Khalaf used military metaphors to explain how Tumblr could use content as “a weapon” to beat out its competition.
Two former Tumblr employees said they were alarmed when Khalaf chose Black Lives Matter as an example of a community that the company should focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers. One told The Verge, “Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to [make] a ton of money.” The same person also recalled: “Tumblr employees totally freaked, but couldn’t really be vocal about it because we were in [New York City] watching over video cast.” The other said that the meeting was “extremely uncomfortable” and “a lot of people were really upset,” leading to a heated conversation in Tumblr’s Slack, which is separate from Yahoo’s.“
Oh wow so we finally out this weak ass website? Bet! follow me on Twitter and Instagram: @kngshxt
Why would anyone be shocked by this? White folks stay profiting off of us, no matter what platforms we use.
um um um is this real??
I had a feeling Yahoo was going to ruin this entire website. Where should we go now, guys?
this is fucking gross honestly. I am so anti-reblog-long-posts but this is just awful.
