#censorship

[gwydionmisha]

Stay Noisy. It works sometimes.

[zaebeecee]

The worst part about it is that I guarantee most (if not basically all) of this discourse is based on ONLY reading tags and warnings and then making a lot of assumptions about what’s actually in the fic

The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple

[axolotlofficial]

Child soldiers exist, war is not an adult topic.

Children die, death/murder is not an adult topic.

The Troubled Teen Industry exists, child trafficking is not an adult topic.

Children get raped, sexual assault is not an adult topic.

Children have alcoholic parents, addiction is not an adult topic.

Children get beat to the point of hospitalization at school, that level of violence is not an adult topic.

That when these things get into "kid friendly" media at all, they tend to be heavily censored is about protecting adult control over kids, not about protecting children.

[reality-detective]

EXPOSED: DARPA’s Role in Creating AI Censorship Tools Now Used Against Americans

Mike Benz revealed to Joe Rogan how DARPA developed the AI-driven censorship technology now weaponized against free speech in America. Originally designed to monitor terrorist groups like ISIS, these tools evolved into "weapons of mass deletion," capable of eliminating entire political movements and controlling narratives with just a few lines of code. Benz compared this censorship technology to an "atom bomb" for speech, permanently altering political warfare by automating suppression without the need for a vast network of human censors. His research since 2016 uncovered how machine learning models trained on millions of tweets were used to map and censor politically sensitive topics, proving that these powerful tools, once intended for national security, have been turned inward against the American citizens. 🤔

[in4newz]

[littlebirdygirlywriting]

Do we not ALL agree that EVERY algorithm on every social media site is targeted AGAINST creators? Why would we WANT an algorithm on AO3??? There are TAGS and FILTERS for a REASON!!! USE THEM!!!

Do we not ALREADY experience too much low-ball criticism without genuine discussion and engagement? Why would we WANT a 1-5 star rating system? If you’re really that hard-pressed for one, create a flipping spreadsheet yourself!

Do we not UNDERSTAND censorship? The fact that it takes and takes and never gives back? Are we not all SICK of writing “g0re,” “⚠️,” or whatever other hoop we have to jump through to avoid a censored, “bad” word on EVERY OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA??? Why would we WANT CENSORSHIP ON AO3???? Tf??

I guess we can’t write about overthrowing corrupt governments. That involves doing illegal things against those governments. We wouldn’t want to condone negative behaviour.

I guess we can’t write about human survival. People do all sorts of illegal things to survive. We wouldn’t want to condone negative behaviour.

I guess we can’t write using metaphors.

I guess we can’t write anything SERIOUS!

I guess we should all be placed in our boxes and forced to be puppets for those higher in control.

After all, we’d hate to bite the hand that feeds us.

We wouldn’t want to condone negative behaviour.

Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying

[libraryjournal]

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[tadrzkaandrska]

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[srldesigns6277]

Elon Musk's N*zi Salute at the Trump Inauguration Rally. The US government will attempt to censor this or shift your perception of it.

You Saw, What You Saw.

[sotomato06]

As of Jan 21st, 2025, a full copy of the constitution is no longer available on whitehouse.gov. I feel like this is a good time to remind everyone that the biggest threat to authoritarianism and facism is a well educated and informed population. Inform yourself and fight.

a copy of the document can still be found on the archives website. I think now is probably a good time to read it if you haven't and download it, incase it is erased from here as well.

https://constitutioncenter.org/media/files/constitution.pdf

[magical-grrrl-mavis]

Twitch is gonna start kinda censoring queer people and it would be really helpful if you could read the next few sentences and then also go to a link and click the word vote.

They're implementing a new rule where if you discuss "sensitive social issues" at all you have to flag your streams as such, these issues include things like war and political unrest but also any lgbtq topics (once again our existence is political).

Essentially a streamer will have to choose between never ever mentioning anything queer (or even just discussing their own life if they're queer themselves) or flagging every stream with "sensitive social issues" and scaring away 90% of viewers.

If you have a twitch account you can go here and log in and click vote. They do listen. Please vote.

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

So sadly the Slur Song has become too powerful and the shadowy powers that be have joined forces to stop it from charting

On the upside it means a whole panel of professional music industry executives had to sit there and awkwardly listen to the whole song which is hilarious

[booksinmythorax]

I'm already seeing advice from people in the US to purchase queer books and other banned or "controversial" books on paper as a way to combat the wave of government censorship that is coming. While this is a good idea (it is! absolutely!), it's not accessible to everyone, and truly, we're not going to be able to consumerism our way out of this one.

If you can buy the books, do. Whether you can buy the books or not, borrow them from your library.

Borrow the paper versions. Borrow the ebook or audiobook versions. Request the titles you want that your library doesn't have. The more a title circulates or is requested, the better librarians are going to be able to defend keeping it if and when it's ever challenged.

Use libraries like @queerliblib too. The more members they have, the better they'll be able to fundraise.

Your community resources depend on you using them. Borrow the books before they go away.

InB4: Piracy is not the solution here. We're trying to keep community resources available, not make sure individual people can read individual books. Different problems.

The books are still available. Borrowing them from your library and returning them on time and in good condition will help keep them that way.

[destiel-news-network]

(Source)

TikTok chose to shut down US access both earlier than the federal ban mandated (it would start tomorrow, 1/19/25) and in a further-reaching manner than the ban intended (it would have prevented Apple & Google from allowing updates but left the app intact on people's phones).