"We aim to sustain Tumblr as a place that facilitates awareness, support and recovery, and to remove only those blogs that cross the line into active promotion or glorification of self-harm." Recently, many social media websites have vowed to crack down on posts and information regarding the promotion or glorification of eating disorders. Tumblr, being at the forefront of this movement has revised many of their policies with this motion in mind.
I think that this is a really interesting aspect of the social media world to sort of take on this issue. Why this issue? Why not censor posts regarding the glorification of gangs? Or drugs? Or the glorification of crude humor? I think that its a positive thing that eating disorders are getting this attention so that there isn't an online community created (or further sustained) via Facebook.
I think this movement stems from the general public in America becoming more accustomed to eating disorders, its becoming less of a stigma and less taboo to talk about. This is a good thing for those who are suffering from the diseases affiliated with body dismorphia but this openess shouldn't trancend to those who are aware they suffer from the disease but do not want to get better because it negatively affects the recovery of others.
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