See, that's exactly why it got shut down. It was TOO free expression. It said a lot of things that society doesn't want said, and can't afford to have said too much. This is why graffiti is illegal: certain ideas, and certain people, are not permitted public voice. Graffiti is when people take that voice by force and refuse to be silenced. It irritates the hell out of the authorities when "those people" won't shut up. So of course Tumblr got painted over by the censors. They're basically allergic to freedom.

No, I don't like seeing "motherfuckr" sprayed on walls, although I have seen some glorious pieces painted on trains. I don't like people praising Trump as a 'great president.' But they have a right to their ideas and a free society needs places of open discourse. Without that, we're limited to what is pleasing to the masses. Doubleplusungood. So I mourn the loss of Tumblr-that-was, even though I never spent time there. It was of value to me as a safety valve for other people. And sometimes people would point out a cool thing on there and I'd go look, like pointing out cool graffiti on a wall.