#because I am anti-censorship

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I don't think asking someone to send you Links of what they perceive to be pedophilic content is going to yield any productive result

I think asking them to provide proof of their argument is the bare minimum of taking them seriously in the discussion. They are making a truly harmful claim against a writer or writers while also loudly misrepresenting what CSA content actually IS, meaning they're also (intentionally or not) diluting a meaning we need to keep VERY distinct so that there is no wiggle room when CSA content actually exists.

(For anyone who doesn't know: Child Sexual Abuse content, under United States Law, is images or videos that involves ACTUAL minors in sexual situations. It does NOT include any fictional versions of minors in sexual acts. So, for example, someone drawing two OCs they say are fifteen in a sexual situation is NOT CSA content because those OCs aren't real. Similarly, any YA that has a couple who are minors having a sexual experience is ALSO not CSA content.)

If you're gonna claim something you don't like is CSA content and claim that that content should be banned because you don't like it, you better be able to prove it actually exists at all because so far, I've seen completely unsubstantiated claims, and you either put up or shut up.

I am literally requesting the bare minimum: Prove your personal argument has a tiny nugget of merit by showing me the content you swear up, down, and sideways, exists. Fucking prove it.

[weareweirdpeople]

I NEED EVERYONES ATYENTION RIGHT NOW.

THE KOSA BILL IS COMING INTO OFFICE SOON. I HEARD IT COULD BE THIS FUCKING WEEK. IF THIS BILL GETS PASSED THEN ANY MINORS ACCOUNTS ON REALLY ANY WEBSITES ARE AT RISK.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SIGN THIS PETIOTION AND DONATE IS POSSIBLE. IF THIS GETS PASSED THEN THINGS ARE GOING TO BE FUCKING AWFUL. NOT A BORING TYPE OF AWFUL, A GENUINELY SCARY AND TERRIBLE AWFUL.

[zeroducks-2]

I feel like a lot of folks who insist that the rampant purity culture in fandom spaces is "not a real problem", and something "an adult with a job" shouldn't deal with, fail to realize that if you simply engage with a certain ship or a certain trope you are exposed to cyberbullying in the form of insults, death threats, rape threats, suibating, self-harm baiting, attempts at doxxing, loss of your livelihood.

Your traumas will be stepped on if you have any, and/or treated as a joke. Your coping mechanisms will be deemed wrong, bad, harmful to yourself and other people, and you will be shamed for having them. The work you have been doing for your mental health, regardless if you dabble in the hobbies you like because of past traumas or because it's just a past-time you have, will be kicked into the dirt because someone is grossed out by them and they arbitrarily decided you cannot express your interest in them.

It is a real problem. Being an adult with a job doesn't give you an "exempt from this" badge that will protect you from harassment if you engage with anything that antis deem immoral.

And there are no "two sides of the same coin" and "two versions to hear" when it comes to this. I don't care if you think someone liking something is "unhealthy", that's none of your business what another person likes. Antis do not "have a point", they never do, their reaction to seeing a dark trope or an "unhealthy ship" are never justified. Hurting real living and breathing people over fictional content is never justified!

[ver-slxt]

yeah, your toxic yaoi ship is cool…

BUT

have you shipped the OG?

they fuck

HARD

[hyp3rfixation-h3ll]

not to get into discourse mode on here but the recent shit w/ ao3 being once again called out for being run by racists/genocide supporters and seeing so many fucking Absolute Gormless Shitheads blindly defend OTW and going " dOn'T bRiNg FiCtIoNaL PoLiTicS iNtO tHis!!!111!1 " as if they are not immune to propaganda is wild . my siblings in sin , ao3 is literally The Racism Fetish Fanfiction site , and propaganda via fictional work is exactly how racism perpetuates. ao3 and the otw are a part of the problem whether you choose to acknowledge it or not because they contribute to the cycle of violence , fetishisation and colonisation of marginalised groups via complacency (and sometimes even blatant PASSIVE ENCOURAGEMENT) , and then they cover it up by using soft cutesy buzzwords like " anti-censorship " and " free speech " and their dumb ass complex tagging system to appeal to white people , so when Actual Minorities and people affected by the shit they put on there speak up about it they're met with all kinds of bullcrap about "jUsT bLoCk ThE tAg If It'S a PrObLem1111!111" or "YoU'rE jUsT bEiNg a fAnDoM cOp!11!!"

You're a part of the problem if you support ao3 and actively continue to use it & donate to them , especially in the wake of the OTW being actively chockful of zionists who will , ironically , silence those who speak up and rally with Palestine for liberation . And If you decide to take this as me being hostile towards you or trying to " bring fiction into real world issues " , remember that at Any point in time you can go on ao3 for yourself and find thousands and thousands of raceplay fics and other various works that glorify and condone racism , and that the otw and their large userbase (primarily composed of white people!) has a track record of trying to shut up POC when this issue is brought to light .

Idgaf if ao3 is for " anti-censorship " , because there's a difference between anti-censorship and HIDING BEHIND the concept of free speech and the 1st amendment to do and say awful , horrendous things and believe you're above critique , punishment or consequences for it .

tl;dr: fuck ao3, fuck the otw, free palestine, and most importantly: you are NOT and will NEVER be immune to propaganda if you choose to ignore it because it benefits you.

[no487]

censorship is the most anti-punk thing you can advocate for in a capitalistic hellscape where the words "suicide" and "death" are replaced with words like "unalived" because corporations are afraid of advertisers pulling out and de-monetizing creators who cover dark topics and horror media.

if you stand with the people who call dirty, provocative fiction and kinks "immoral" & "degenerate" for not fitting the clean, heteronormative world views fascists have then i'm sorry. you're not a punk; you're a poser.

[schizomilitant]

i love rotting in bed and watching youtube all day. theres funny little people in my phone and they amuse me. dance funny man dance.

i also love not rotting in bed and instead just sitting on my porch. its like being in bed except the sun is there. and its warm and shit. and also the wind feels really fucking good. you guys gotta try it out. trust me on this. its great.

i also recommend moving to the couch if you dont like wind or something. just to spice things up. got some variety with your chilling out.

[darkwood-sleddog]

Owlvid is now blindly believing an anon suggesting you that you're a pedophile or at least defend pedophilic content all because I guess they need a reason to say you are for sure the one who is wrong and not them

Bruh. I did not escape the toxicity of Catholicism just to deal with this.

[sak-spn]

Not rebloging because I don’t feel like this person deserves the interaction or attention (and no user cause anti-harassment). But wow this is fucked up!

One: you can’t just forbid people from interacting with you/your public posts just because they like something you don’t. If they kept trying to talk to you about it then that’s another thing, but a DNI just because they like it is stupid.

Two: some people are not comfortable posting things publicly on the internet (even in the widely anonymous ecosystem of tumblr). I guess people are not allowed to simply enjoy things. Blocking blank blogs is understandable (I tend to leave them be unless they do anything skeevy), but wow, fucking be greatfull for the likes!

[ghostysn0w]

How two of my friends feel for calling me controversial and saying I enjoy seeing guts in films because I said that films like Cannibal Holocaust shouldn’t be censored but avoided if you don’t like it (plus censoring films like that won’t make others stop seeing or producing similar films):

[panicroomsammy]

Have you ever gone outside and interacted with normal people for more than an hour. If you did you would feel less threatend by "antis"

Great question I have spoken to the person who wrote the “Don’t Say Gay” bill in real life I can guarantee that pro-censorship people are in fact a genuine existential threat to my daily existence. I am friends with librarians and teachers who are being forced to take books that deal with racism, queerness, rape, and other unpalatable themes off of their shelves. Yes “antis” on the internet are dumb compared to this but you can see why I would find it upsetting when queer people like censorship when I deal with the results of pro-censorship attitudes in my daily life. Anyway to answer your question I “feel threatened” by antis because I go outside and talk to people so I know that advocating for censorship is a threat.

[narmothewraith]

Introduction of my blog

My main rule is when interacting with me: just be nice and if you harass people for the content they like?? Just fuck off, this page is safe for the freaks. (I mean look at the warning) As long you're nice and you let me be me, I won't give a fuck who you are. So yeah that's all :)

~ I go by the name; Sam

~ I'm a masc person and while I prefer male pronouns I don't really give a fuck, so you can call me anything.

~ I'm 18 and post/reblog 18+ content now and then, so if you're uncomfortable with 18+ content or are a minor please do not interact with those posts... Thank you <3 Uhhh so basically I'm being horny on main...

⚠️ WARNING: I play DoL (Degrees of Lewdity) and I post/reblog stuff about it but it's a very fucked up porn game, so I will post/reblog dark content on here. I will try to tag accordingly but yeah. In general there will be some reblogs of dark content, so if you don't like that, well this was a warning ⚠️

[gynoidgearhead]

[Image caption for addition: tags by an unknown user reading: "#I'll never shut up about how the last season ate a 20 episode cut because it was either that or cut the wedding #And the crewniverse stuck to their guns #Of course it was rushed. they were literally punished for being queer #This is why we keep saying 'you couldn't even handle steven universe' because not only was it actually good #but it did REAL WORLD good and FOUGHT for real world human rights #but because the fiction wasn't hayes code enough y'all lit the crewniverse on fire for it. #Abysmal priorities. Pathetic. #problemnyatic thoughts #steven universe". End caption.]

the steven universe hate is insane bc people are (or at least were) more upset that fictional war criminals got fictional hugs than they recognize that it singlehandedly advanced queer rep in children's media by lightyears and then straight up ate heavy retaliation for the nerve.

It does have real flaws that are worth discussing, but it also put their male protagonist in dresses and skirts and played it straight and even empowering, they aired a lesbian wedding on television, it was a genuinely queer, genuinely diverse piece of media through and through. It did a lot of real good for the real world.

But also the fictional characters caused fictional harm to other fictional characters, and didn't get an onscreen firing squad sentence. So, you know, it's basically ontologically evil in real life.

[renthony]

I wonder how fast I'd die of alcohol poisoning if I did a shot every time someone in my notes boiled one of my posts down to "but are you pro or anti ship."

How many times, tumblr? How many times must I say that "proship/antiship" is a completely asinine way to frame this discussion, and no matter how much my opinions may align with one side, I'm not using a fucking shipping discourse label to discuss my media studies and censorship research?

"Are you pro or anti ship?" Neither. I am not engaged in shipping discourse. I am much more concerned with the ways that censorship is used to specifically target marginalized people raising awareness and making art about their own experiences and worldviews. You cannot enact any form of censorship without it hitting marginalized people the hardest.

I do not care about your ship wars when I am discussing things such as the Hays Code and 2024 book bans, and I am incredibly exhausted by how often people derail my posts into shipping arguments. It's slightly more tolerable when teenagers do it, because they're still figuring out how shit works and lord knows I fell into my fair share of rancid discourse as a teenager, but I am appalled at how often it's dragged into my notes by grown-ass adults.

"Proship/antiship" is a reductive framework grounded in bad-faith internet discourse drenched in purity culture. It is not a useful framework to use when discussing dark fiction, censorship, free speech, or obscenity laws. "Proship" and "antiship" are loaded buzzwords that make people stop thinking critically and engaging in good faith, and I have no tolerance for it.

I'm not interested in declaring my side in tumblr ship wars when I'm focused on things like, "when is the next local school board meeting regarding book bans, and am I eligible to run for the citizen advisory council that helps decide the fate of specific books?" and, "with the overturn of Roe v. Wade, in what ways do we need to be concerned about, and what ways can we raise awareness about, the enforcement of the Comstock Act?" and, "as a trans person living in Florida, how do I navigate my existence being treated as an inherent pornographic threat to children that should be censored and legislated out of existence?"

I do not care! About! Fucking! SHIPPING!

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Is anyone gonna explain to people that ‘proship’ does not actually mean ‘problematic shipping’ or ‘problematic ship’ or are we just going to let this misinformation spread some more?

It means pro-shipping. The prefix pro, meaning ‘supporting.’ In favor of shipping.

It only became a defined position after anti-shippers who initially identified themselves as anti-a specific ship started harassing creators they didn’t like, doxxing them, and trying to get them fired from their irl jobs for shipping reasons around 2014-2016.

So people who had been in fandom for long enough to know where that kind of rhetoric leads (ffnet purges, LJ strikethru, as well as the direct harms caused by doxxing) observed this increasing trend of harassment and rallied to say ‘oh you lot are anti-shipping, as in opposed to certain ships? Well in that case, we are pro-shipping, because we follow the adage of ship and let ship.’

Before that point, it was just basic fandom etiquette to not bother people who ship stuff you don’t like, and to understand that if something squicks you out, it’s not the fault of the people who made it.

If someone says they are pro-ship, it means fuck all about what they actually enjoy in fiction.

It just means they’re opposed to harassing creators for making content that doesn’t cause tangible harm to real people. A better way to understand the ideological position is being anti-harassment and anti-censorship.

I have a lot of ships I find disgusting blacklisted so I don’t have to see them. But I am not interested in forcing people to comply with what I think is gross. That’s what it means.

Curate your online experience, and understand that your disgust response is not a defensible moral indicator or a justification to harass, deplatform, and dox fan writers.

[the-rad1o-demon]

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GET KOSA TRENDING.

STOP SCROLLING NOW!

AS OF FEBRUARY 21ST, 2024, WE GOT FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF DECISION OF THE KOSA BILL, WHICH WILL CAUSE MASS CENSORSHIP ROUND THE INTERNET IF PASSED. OR DOOMSDAY. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND CONTRIBUTE. I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ALL.

WE'RE DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT WE CAN'T GIVE UP YET. IF WE GIVE UP, EVERYTHING IS OVER. IF WE DON'T, AT LEAST WE HAVE A CHANCE.

I'M THE ONE WHO SOUNDED THE ALARM, AND I'M NOT GOING TO CURL UP AND DIE YET.

Reblog this post in every LEGAL way you can under the Tumblr guidelines with the appropriate tags. TELL AND TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW, then add the tags to see below... and more if you can think of any complying.

Visit badinternetbills.com if you want to find a way to defeat KOSA. It WILL NOT take much of your time. Reblog with any other information or sources, too-- but make sure to reblog if you can.

Reblog if you support lgbtq+ content.

Reblog if you support questioning queer youth and/or abused youth getting the information they need.

Reblog if you support Ao3 and/or other sites that wholeheartedly preserve talentedly made media.

Reblog if you're going to repost this on other sites than Tumblr and spread the word across Twitter, Tik Tok, Pinterest, or elsewhere, alongside the link to badinternetbills.com.

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Hey, everyone. So yeah, this is happening. We're still fighting this battle. And we can't give up now. We can't. We can't stand idly by while one of the most important resources that helped us all wake up, or at least start to question things, is being threatened by the government.

We can't stand idly by when kids, teens, and adults just like us still trapped inside might lose access to the resource that could help them wake up. We can't stand idly by when they might lose access to their non JW friends and family. We CAN'T stand idly by when we can do something to stop this bill from passing.

I am sick and tired of this same old song, where conservative fuckers higher up think they can oppress everyone. I am FUCKING SICK of it.

Please, reblog both this post and the original post linked above what I've written, and do what you can to stop KOSA, please. We are running out of time.

I suggest that if it is within your power to do so, that you do more than simply reblog and assume someone else will do something. DON'T assume that. Please do more than just reblogging if you are able to, because that's not really enough at this point.

Call/email representatives in the House and tell them to oppose KOSA (you may want to list different reasons depending on who you're calling, some House representatives are anti-LGBTQ+, so it may be best to tell them to oppose because it violates people's privacy, safety, and anonymity online). Print posters and put them up where legal if you can.

Sharing all this information to other social media sites (Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, the bird app) to reach more people can really help too. The wider the reach, the better.

Thank you. Now let's fucking rip that bill apart like we rip apart Watchtower magazines and eat it for fucking breakfast. (In a "we're eating it and the politicians who are sponsoring it are looking on in horror" kind of way)