#censorship

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

ha! I got LAMBASTED when I posted something on Ao3

so fuck them hypocrites

“if you don’t like my story, move on” except when I posted something

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

[chocchipdisaster]

hey gang. if you're one of the people that believe incest should be banned from ao3, this is an unfriendly reminder that if incest is totally banned, you will never again read a fic where walburga and orion are married.

by extension, you will never read a fic with Sirius and Regulus in it ever again.

I understand that you think you're doing a good thing pushing for the ban of taboo subjects, e.g incest and age gaps, but what you're really doing is pushing for censorship and pushing to remove the vast majority of works in this fandom.

I certainly don't support incest and don't read it, (except in this fandom we all read it by reading fics with Sirius and Regulus, the direct products of an incestuous marriage), but if you are pushing to have a total ban on incest on ao3, you will not only see a lack of Sirius x regulus content and whatever else but you will see a lack of fics where walburga and orion are married, so the vast majority of works in this fandom.

can you understand why this is dangerous now? you can't promote incest being removed and then say 'ban all of it except walburga and orion because I don't mind that so much.'

entirely aside from what you miss out on in fandom if shit starts getting banned, censorship is just generally bad!

[political-us]

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has engaged in several actions to censor or restrict media outlets:

1. Barring the Associated Press (AP) from Presidential Events: In February 2025, the Trump administration prohibited AP journalists from covering events in the Oval Office and traveling on Air Force One. This decision was in response to the AP’s refusal to adopt the administration’s directive to rename the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America” in their reporting. 

2. Canceling Subscriptions to Major News Outlets: The State Department, under President Trump’s directive, canceled subscriptions to prominent news organizations, including The New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, and Bloomberg News. This move was part of a broader initiative to reduce government spending on media subscriptions deemed non-essential. 

3. Investigations into Media Organizations: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr, appointed by President Trump, revived investigations into alleged bias by major networks such as CBS, ABC, and NBC. Additionally, the FCC initiated probes into National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) regarding their sponsorships, with recommendations to halt federal funding for these public broadcasters. 

4. Manipulation of Language in Official Communications: The Trump administration has been noted for intentionally altering language in official communications to advance its agenda. Examples include rebranding offshore drilling as an “energy emergency” and renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” Such linguistic changes have been criticized as attempts to reshape societal narratives and historical facts. 

These actions have raised concerns among journalists and free speech advocates, who view them as potential infringements on press freedom and the First Amendment.

[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.

[ms-boogie-man]

☦︎17TolucaLake☦︎

That trollop in the video is either lying or ignorant One thingy for sure though… she is leading you down the wrong path

I thinking you guys are s'posed to be taken in by her German accent speaking out against nazis, and her soft hairs an nicely painted nails

Coming from a Roman (jerks her thumb at herself), who has chipped nails polish… Nazis were censors, banning TikTok would be censorship, and at no time in human history have censors ever been the good guys

Tip: MAGA first hinted at getting rid of TT due to it (a) being a Chinese (CCP) surveillance tool in your fōn, and (b) to troll liberals into showing their true colors by demanding a ban on the app. The surveillance issue has been resolved, and to the best of my knowledge, though I do not use the app, it is now fine for use by the public

Again, Ms Thingy up there in the video is wrong, she is conflating that which cannot be conflated, and banning TT would be censorship

… of course, if you think you can prove me wrong you are welcome to try. But before you respond, consider the following:

Don't fall for it

[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

[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).

[unironicmillennialtrash]

The sick part is they'll still get away with it. I tried to convince my family of what they're doing by showing incontrovertible evidence and they still don't believe this is happening.

The majority of people have fallen prey to their tactics. Unfortunately, that includes people who were aware of Project 2025 before the election.

He's literally doing exactly what's outlined in Project 2025 and people are deadass saying, "Well, he just got in office. Let's wait and see what he's gonna do."

I'm so fucking sorry, but if a president makes discrimination legal on his first day in office, I don't wanna wait and see what else he's gonna do.

[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.

[taikeero-lecoredier]

CHAT CONTROL TO BE VOTED ON THIS THURSDAY

Original tweet

I know americans are busy with fighting KOSA but I urge you to please help us by spreading the word about this, I can't say this enough, if chat control passes, citizen's private messages will be scanned via artifical intelligence,and they must comply,otherwise theyre not allwoed to send pictures,videos,or links anymore. We have a discord server made to organize against it,with emails scripts you can use when contacting your meps : https://discord.com/invite/e7FYdYnMkS

Find your meps and tell them to vote no on this :

[bakedbakermom]

saying ao3 needs to censor certain content is like saying a museum can't have still life art that includes strawberries because you don't like them.

these are not real strawberries. you do not have to, and in fact cannot, eat them. no one with a strawberry allergy will be harmed by looking at them. no migrant workers were exploited in the picking of these strawberries. there were no questionable farming practices or negative environmental impacts from growing or transporting them.

because - and i cannot stress this enough - they are not real strawberries.

if you don't like strawberries, you don't have to look at the paintings. in fact, you can get a map of the museum that lists what works are in what rooms and just. not go in there. if you see one by mistake, you can look away. just keep walking. there's plenty of other stuff to see.

yes, real strawberries can cause real quantifiable harm to real people.

but again. these are not real strawberries.

you may have whatever feelings you like about strawberries, and so can i. you can draw and write about whatever fruit floats your boat, and so can i, even if that happens to be strawberries. and we can hang our art side by side in the same gallery, provided you understand that my strawberries are not about you (and your kumquats are, shocker, not about me) and that - and this is true - neither are real.

and when the fascists break down the doors and grab all the strawberry paintings and heap them in the street and set them on fire, please know that they are coming for your kumquats next.

so if you want a place where you can show off your beautiful kumquat art safely, you're gonna have to tolerate having some strawberries in the next room.

and that's okay. because the strawberries aren't real.

[gnotobiotic-mouse]

PLEASE download and save whatever you can. As a science side of tumblr girlie I’ve been prioritizing trans and queer health research from national health databases. Download and save documentaries, films, articles, books, textbooks, etc

We are our own historians and archivists

THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊

[renthony]

Okay, so y'all know the phenomenon where American media companies say they can't produce queer stories because they'll just get censored in foreign markets? It's transparent as hell, because the dominant culture of the United States is still violently queerphobic, and in many cases, state queerphobia in other countries is the direct result of Christian imperialism. The US is not the enlightened gay haven in a world of evil homophobic foreigners, and trying to pretend that American media can't be too gay because it'll be censored overseas is asinine. We all know that, right?

Anyway, today I learned that there is an episode of the Australian cartoon Bluey that has been censored in the United States because it shows the dad character pretending to be pregnant and have a baby as part of a game of pretend. Disney refuses to air it on the Disney Channel or on Disney+. It has been made available on YouTube by the Australian rights holders.

So let's quit fucking pretending that Disney is actually scared of foreign censors, hm? The queerphobic censorship is coming from inside the House of Mouse, and it always has been.

[political-us]

NYT headlines changing... censorship?