So, I'm looking into the whole Tumblr discrimination suit thing.
They settled with the CCHR in 2022 because, at the time, they were headquartered there, I believe, but that's no longer the case. Automattic Inc., and by extension, Tumblr, are headquartered now at 60 29th Street #343 San Francisco, CA 94110
So I believe we'd want to get in touch with the human rights commission in san fransisco instead. I don't know fuckall about this kind of legal thing though, so someone who either knows more or is better at research should figure out if it's worthwhile to bring this to the CCHR given that All This Shit is a pretty overt violation of the terms of their settlement with them, even if they are now headquartered elsewhere.
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I need eyes on this. I can't do this alone, but we SUPER have this together. Come on, let's combine our autism and fire the transgender laser directly at tumblr headquarters. Via
LEGAL ACTION
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screencap of tags:
#I AM LISTENING OP WHAT DO YOU NEED US TO DO #GIVE ME INSTRUCTIONS/gen #HAPPY PRIDE LET'S TAKE OUR WEBSITE BACK
Right now? Legal research. I think a good move right now would be to
contact the CCHR and just, ask about what the protocol is here. Tumblr made the settlement with them, and i'm
kind of sure they've violated the terms of it? That's what we need to clarify. If they have, we need to then find out what to do about it. If this is like, a closed case, we need to find the equivalent office in san fransisco and file a complaint with
them.
I gotta emphasize I do not know how this legal stuff works, but getting in touch with an office to ask these kinds of questions is generally the correct first move here, and does not constitute Starting A Whole Process on its own.
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screencap of a reply from user teslafactory:
you want to contact a lawyer/firm with a history of representing class action lawsuits, preferably one in sanfran. it might to help to see if any crossover with the legal team from the previous lawsuit. if someone cold emails them there's a chance they will happily give us some tips or advice moving forwards.
And there it is, folks! We're on a lawyer hunt. You ever reblog a post like "tumblr owes every trans woman $1000 dollars" this is it. This is our chance to make tumblr
actually pay every trans woman on or run off this website actual money. Lets Fucking Go
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what you need for a class action suit:
- a lawyer willing to work pro-bono (unlikely in this case) or thousands of dollars
- significant amounts of time to reach out to all eligible parties, make court arrangements (many of which will need to be in person in the relevant state, or mailed in which can be very slow)
- enough people who can directly prove their blog was deleted even though they did not violate the terms of service (not just people who believe this happened)
- a judge who isn’t going to say that a platform is entitled to delete blogs as they see fit because users agree to the terms of service when they make an account, which state the terms of service can be changed at any time,and could be tailored specifically to fit the deletion of blogs that didn’t originally violate the terms of service
it would be very, very hard to prove that something illegal is happening here. it would be even harder to find enough people with any evidence their blog was deleted despite NEVER violating the terms of service. it doesn’t matter how insignificant a violation was, it is grounds for deletion according to the terms of service everyone agrees to when they sign up for an account.
the second problem here is proving that the moderators knew they were deleting the blogs of trans women, which is required to prove it was discrimination. it wouldn’t be hard for them to say they didn’t even know who ran the blogs that were being deleted. my guess for their biggest argument would be ‘how could they discriminate if they didn’t know they were even targeting a certain group?’ i think most people agree there’s a lot of cases where the moderators were aware of a person’s identity, but this is hard to prove when the blog was deleted and there’s no evidence they ever indicated their identity.
in my (not a lawyer) opinion, the best option here isn’t a class action suit, but contacting an organization like the
aclu. no clue if they’d take a suit like this, especially since it’s hard to prove there’s significant harm involved at all, but that’s probably better than trying to organize a class action suit.