To say that the act of creation, which has been a fundamentally necessary part of being alive since human beings could use their hands, is just something you must long-sufferingly endure for the end product is just so bleak.
@ToonHive Idk man. He was perfectly happy to sell out his ideals and thought everyone would just complain a little and then get over it. His public dislike of GenAI was lip service and he probably thought it was the same for everyone, who would also abandon it to take a check.
@abbymachines sex work can be ‘consensual’ in the way that they allowed for it to happen to get a means to an end, but that doesn’t mean they really have a choice. if there was no monetary gain, the sex would not happen, that’s pretty rapey.
"We are going to force adults to disclose their sensitive personal information to our system that literally had a data breech less than 6 months ago" does not protect children from the adults who fucking lie and pretend to be minors lol. What is fucking wrong with you.
@Broken_Stoic@_toxicblonde Its incredibly easy for schools to block websites on computers, especially Chromebooks. Original point still stands: its ridiculous (and patently unsafe) for corporations to attempt to do the jobs of a child's supervisory figures.
the reason ao3 exists in the first place is bc a bigoted right-wing mom group destroyed an entire ecosystem of fan work on LiveJournal using the same talking points that you are using right now. That sweep destroyed your good, clean, pure of heart fics, too, bc they were queer.