Okay, so I was supporting PF as an alternative to tumblr. No more. Here are my problems with this, in no particular order:
-They banned a user and deleted their blog for this before actually updating their TOS. And they didn’t inform the user or flag the post or anything. Just, boom, gone, no communication or reason given, again, for something that wasn’t even in the TOS at the time it was posted. That’s some shitty and shady moderating.
-This cannot be enforced. Between art styles (everyone knows that anime with the 30 year old woman who looks 10, or the 12 year old boy who looks 20), natural human diversity (height, medical condition, bust size- remember that time Australia banned adult women with A-cups from appearing in porn?), a policy that boils down to what a mod ‘thinks’ a picture looks like is basically just giving every mod a ‘hot or not’ button and basing the banning on that.
-Also, we’re talking about fiction. And fandom, which is fiction’s weird-niche central. How do you make a call on a piece of art depicting a child in an adult’s body (body-swapping, shape-shifting) or the reverse (such as an immortal child who is mentally an adult)? What about inhuman characters? And how are you going to rule on non-classically-sexual, non-nude fetish art?
-On a demographic note, this will be slanted against queer, survivor, and disabled artists. Since it’s down to mod preference and bias, preference and bias will come into play. Women are drawn ‘younger’ looking than men in a more normalized way (Disney’s Rapunzel and her mother, who is presumably twice her age, are basically twins), so art with a het ship and similar mlm art where one partner is femme/uke-like are likely going to be treated differently. Disabled, intersex, trans and non-binary individuals sometimes have different or minimized secondary sexual characteristics, so it’ll target them too. Survivors who express or process what happened to them in art will be banned.
-This makes no sense. Gore, torture, rape between adults, etc are still allowed, so this won’t make the site safe for work. And all of those things are clearly objectionable in real life, so this isn’t about only allowing obviously healthy/consensual porn. It’s just a random line drawn in the sand, and that means there are no guarantees that more random lines won’t follow.
-The vagueness leaves this open for abuse. If fictional depictions can be banned, then people can easily mass report ships or art they don’t like. And every mod trying to figure out if Prince of Tennis (a series where young teen characters are drawn more like adults) porn is ban-worthy or not is one less mod focusing on real CP that victimizes real children.
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