notforyoutobreak:

“Hello Savannah,
We realize this content may be very upsetting, but we also highly value freedom of expression and freedom of speech.

Sometimes content posted by a blogger may be mean-spirited or upsetting but does not violate the law. In order to maintain freedom of expression, we cannot remove that material.

This is not a real death threat, it’s just the blogger venting.

You can and should stop viewing content from an offending blogger. If you use Tumblr, you can also Block a blogger at http://tumblr.com/block. This prevents you from seeing content from that blogger on your Dashboard and prevents that blogger from sending you messages via Tumblr.

Thank you for taking the time to share your concern with us.

Best Regards,

Mathieu”

(my full name and e-mail is censored on the screencap)

I reported on behalf of DTWPS after seeing a death threat they got from one asshole who got offended by what they were saying.  I made a screenshot of the threat as well, but while it’s still not deleted, you can see it here (MAJOR TW in link for explicit violence and threats).  That’s the asshole who made the threat.

In my report, I just basically said this person was saying some very vile and threatening things to DTWPS, and I didn’t feel safe on the site anymore if people can say shit like that.  Even if they weren’t srs, still, what they said was disgusting, triggering, and upsetting.  There is NO REASON TO GO THAT FAR.  NONE.

And they’re trying to defend this asshole with the “freedom of speech” claim and saying that they were just ranting?  I don’t fucking think so.

Tumblr staff never seems to understand their own TOS…