In response to your reblog about good points and all that, I have to disagree. If you're venting, you're venting, you're talking about your problems, if someone says they're going to kill themselves and we flock to their blog it's not suddenly going to be

Yeah, one would hope. That person was wondering about the line. How black and white will it be? What is the definition of "promoting" exactly? Etc. I think those are good questions. Tumblr talks down to us quite a bit. Read the FAQS regarding featured tags and editors, for example. They say things like "If your post is awesome, Tumblrbot will find it!" as if we're all middle schoolers or something. Their staff post regarding this self-harm/ED thing was more transparent, but not transparent enough, in my opinion.

Anarchyandscotch is right. Tumblr is a private organization and is not the government, but we live in an age of corporate feudalism. Private organizations and corporations are just as powerful, and some would argue, more powerful than the government. Like a feudal king, the government is becoming more and more symbolic, and weaker and weaker in the face of rising corporations, interest groups, and media entities. Someday, it may be little more than the Queen of England.