@Nickolasvalen31 It's one thing if you personally don't want to say it and another to judge others who do. Nobody has less respect for themselves by using a reclaimed slur, you have no respect for your people by catering to white people's sensitivities about said slur.
this is why i hate using "censorship". i live in a country with strict censorship and media regulation. these people probably have never lived in one of those places and cannot imagine what actual censorship feels like. they just others' pain to protect their little fanfictions.
@obathemouse For instance they will tell Black Americans "do you think they'll stop at ao3? They'll come for you next!" When historically Black Americans and their stories have been censored and erased from history for longer than we've been alive. Censorship is a buzzword to them.
@obathemouse The interesting part is that even within America there are examples of minorities and their stories being censored actively right now. Issue is these people don't care about real censorship and will use the "potential" suffering of those minorities as a threat
Men who shame women for getting breast reductions piss me off. Idgaf what YOU find attractive when I look in the mirror and feel insecure about my body because ooo shocker there is such thing as boobs too big.
The fact that y'all think content moderation on ao3 would "evolve" to right wing censorship rather than understanding that that censorship already happens to people of color and y'all's fics seem to be just fine is what gets me
@fatalwoundssss mfw OP is right and censorship will evolve to censoring anything the right wing doesn't find "palatable" (including gay, black, aapi, hispanic, and any other kind of love that isn't cishet white woman x cishet white man Disney Hallmark romance)
For the love of god I am BEGGING people to stop commenting on that Sandy Hook fanfic. Stop spreading it too. They are commenting under that thread saying they came from twitter.
AO3 does not care. They will not take it down. REPORT TO THE AUTHORITIES.
@luvdulcet As a support main I still feel you because somehow even as support my other supp won't heal my ass when I'm directly next to them at 10 health and everyone else is completely fine 🤨 But I can't find a duo 😔
When you allow a safe space for such vile content to be posted and protected you are doing nothing but allowing a safe space for real life predators to gather. This isn't about fictional characters anymore. It's about real people and real CHILDREN.
I think one of the biggest issues with these people is that they conflate social media moderation with actual government censorship. Something doesn't need to be *illegal* for it to be *immoral* and have no place to be written or read.
if you unironically defend people writing rape fics based on a school shooting that took place in the real world under the guise of 'anti-censorship' and 'b-but it's legal!' then you gotta go to hell, all shade. you mfs are too comfortable disrespecting people over fanfics
The removal of that content is not removing anything of actual value. It's not silencing news, not rewriting history, not removing real stories that need to be told. You've just taken the idea that ao3 is an "archive" to the extreme without actually knowing what am archive is