that post about how I want to fuck ghosts [because of how I read gay fanfiction about them as an...

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that post about how I want to fuck ghosts [because of how I read gay fanfiction about them as an adolescent] has three replies, one reblog, and two likes. I’m getting ratioed for this. why are you booing me? I’m right.

ao3 implement a policy against hate speech challenge

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ao3 implement a policy against hate speech challenge

my radical ao3 censorship proposal is that we need some process to stop the person filling...

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my radical ao3 censorship proposal is that we need some process to stop the person filling miscellaneous LGBTQ representation tags with shockfic as a trolling tactic or at least stop this person from posting content about Carrie fisher going to hell. my radical ao3 censorship proposal is that we need some process to stop the person writing corrective rape porn about adolescent lesbians. I’m clutching my pearls here won’t somebody think of the absolutely any form of community standards whatsoever

If you don’t want to answer this, I understand,

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Because those are specifically what I’m talking about. The argument isn’t about it catering to children, it’s about not catering to people who consume that kind of content. Which there is thousands of, if you do a quick search of any of the tags used to find shit of that like.

I’m saying that while I personally abhor such things on such a visceral level to the point where even thinking about it in a fictional context is making me shake and want to throw up as I type this, that doesn’t give me the right to decide who to censor and who to not. Cause where do you then decide that censorship ends? Once you allow the one to be censored, it allows for the censorship of the personal as well which is exactly what happened before. And anyone naive enough to believe that it wouldn’t happen again is in for a very rude awakening. We’re already seeing it come into effect with Microsoft censoring what they deem to be “explicit content”, which includes a lot of things from explicit imagery, right down to swearing.

This is actually something that’s been hashed out in courts of law over and over and over until we have come up with the laws that we do have, which are very helpfully explained here and are well worth the time to read:

(http://www.lawyersandliquor.com/2018/04/fetish-friday-the-legality-of-fictional-minors-in-sexual-conduct/)

And it has already been decided that legally, fictional depictions of certain acts even between adults and minors, can only be judged on a case by case basis to determine whether something has artistic merit or if it can be deemed too obscene as to be harmful.

And people making reports to the FBI over this kind of thing, is going to obliterate fandom again, and all the safe spaces the generations even before mine worked so hard to build are going to go with it. Again.

Just because I’m anti-censorship and losing my fandom spaces, doesn’t mean I want those stories on there, it doesn’t even make me okay with them existing on a personal level because I am not.

But I am aware of the consequences of what will happen if we do allow for that kind of censorship, and it’s not as clean cut as a lot of people believe. In an ideal world, maybe it would be. But we’re not in that world.

Now if you’ll excuse me. I’m going to go throw up.