this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had already been swirling that this would occur, but this just cements that they were correct

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    8 months ago

    I mean, even if that’s tue, I don’t count it as “ownership” if they change the monetization scheme for what I wrote, without giving me a good chance to say what I get in return. Reddit even allegedly put back comments which users deleted.

    It’s near-impossible to delete all my own comments on Reddit, for example.

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      8 months ago

      It’s true, go ahead and read the ToS. It only grants a license to Reddit to use your content. It explicitly says:

      You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content:

      And then goes on to enumerate what you’re licensing them to do with it. There’s also a section titled “Changes to these Terms” about how they can change the ToS going forward.