#freedom of expression

[unspeakablearchives]

(Source: Sen the donkey)

[evilwriter37]

Ya know, we tell the fancops to go to fanfiction.net and stop using ao3 if they hate it so much, but like, they would never survive there! I haven’t gone on in probably almost a decade, but there aren’t really tags, and really no warnings. You get the title and the summary. You will get jumpscared by stuff you don’t want to see. Ao3 is a fucking oasis compared to ff.net (or god forbid, Wattpad), but they’re too entitled to see it. Ao3 has such an extensive tagging and warning system. It’s honestly really impressive. And they have filters. Filters. You can exclude the stuff you hate!!! No one is forcing you to read any of this!!! You can mute and block people on ao3 now too!! If you’re seeing all this stuff you hate but aren’t using the tools available to you just so you can throw a fit, that’s your own fucking problem. Quit making it everyone else’s.

[marquisdefag]

so the United Kingdom just banned fictional incest in porn. this includes video games & anything that ones mind can relate to incest in a realistic fashion. fictional art of fictional characters that’s anywhere near realistic in art could potentially incriminate you.

you and your partner are into incest fantasies and post clips of content you’ve posted? aye, you are now posting illegal content that can get you several years in prison. if anyone was to own those clips? they can get incriminated for possession.

this is fucking scary and nobody is giving a fuck, or even knows this was secretly snuck in over a day ago.

there was no official press release and are trying to play it off because it’s “sensitive”. NO ONE KNOWS. THEY KEPT IT HIDDEN. — you can read the whole document here.

fictional content in the UK is now a criminal offence.

[onlytiktoks]

[ellipsus-writes]

The words they're afraid of.

(Read on our blog.)

The recently appointed Department of Defense head Pete Hegseth (formerly Fox News pundit, perpetually soused creepy uncle, and current group chat leaker of classified intel) banned images of the Enola Gay from the Pentagon’s website for the offense of “DEI” language. In keeping with the far right’s stated war on anything vaguely resembling diversity, equity and inclusion, even historical photos are up for cancellation. When a literal weapon of mass destruction is censored for being a bit fruity under the Trump administration’s war against inconvenient truths, what exactly is left untouched?

This is clown show stuff, but the stakes are far from funny. While some might be hesitant to compare the current administration to the very worst history has to offer, we can at least all agree that they are dyed-in-the-wool grammar Nazis. Policing language has been the objective of the MAGA culture war long before Project 2025’s debut—the wave of book bans orchestrated by astroturf movements like Moms for Liberty, and Florida’s 2022 Don’t Say Gay bill have already had a profound effect in the arena of free speech and freedom of expression (despite the far right’s long tradition of doublespeak performative free-speech martyrdom to the contrary). Don’t Say Gay ostensibly targeted K-3 education, but LGBT+ content at all levels of education (and beyond) was either quietly censored or entirely preempted in practice. The results were not just a war on so-called ideology, or words alone—but on reality and essential freedoms.

Now, words as innocuous and important as racism, climate change, hate speech, prejudice, mental health, and inequality are targeted as subversive. Entire concepts are being vanished from government institutions, scrubbed not only from descriptions but from metadata, search indexes, and archival frameworks.

If you don’t name a thing, does it exist?

These words are as numerous as they are generic: women, race, Black, immigrants, multicultural, gender, injustice. But what is painfully unserious is also particularly dangerous in its real-world consequences. The process of controlling words is a well-worn authoritarian tendency. Fifty-two universities are now under investigation as part of the President's effort to curb “woke” research and thought crimes. Institutions are being coerced to comply with a nebulous set of ideological demands, or face budgetary annihilation. That means cutting funding for entire departments, slashing financial aid, defunding scientific grants, and pressuring faculty to self-censor.

The possibilities for censorship extend far and wide—interfering, by extension, in everything from reproductive healthcare programs, to libraries and museums. The Trump administration’s proposed budget slashing all federal funding for libraries, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services, will effectively gut an infrastructure that supports over 100,000 libraries and museums across the country—community centers, educational lifelines, internet access points, and archives of marginalized histories (starting with the Smithsonian Institution).

When you erase access, you erase participation. And when you erase participation, you erase people, and the means by which future generations might even learn they existed. A culture that cannot remember is a culture that cannot resist.

The erasure is, yet again, unsurprisingly targeted at minorities and LGBT+ people. The National Parks Service quietly revised the Stonewall Monument’s website to remove references to transgender people—a fundamental part of the original protests. Not an oversight, not a mistake, but a deliberate excision—one point in a wider plan of erasure depicted in stark detail in Project 2025, a blueprint to dismantle civil rights, defund LGBT+-related healthcare, and rewrite history from the ground up.

Dehumanization by deletion—welcome to the reactionary resurgence of doubleplusungood governance. In Trumpland, words are weapons—but not in the way they intend. Their fear of language betrays its power; that’s why they’re trying so hard to police it.

Words hurt them.

Hurt them back.

- the Ellipsus Team

[oatneko]

ִ ࣪ ˖ ࣪ Freedom Of Expression ! ᰔ ִ ׄ

This flag is for individuals who believe everyone should have freedom to express themselves in any way they want. And that all personalized identities are valid and no being deserves harassment or bullying for how they personally identify.

Whether its Neopronouns, xenogenders, micro-lables, contradictory lables, paraphilias, transIDs, or other, this person supports it all!

• { Rainbows cus you're GAY

• { Heart cus you luv urself and others

• { And a crayon cus you create your own identity

(You don't need to be gay to use this flag, could be a cis heterosexual male and as long as you connect with this flag you cool)

Chat I lowkey took this off an anti and made it 10x better... I mean their flags was kinda cuter.. But who cares about the flag just go jump around like a unicorn or smth..

[shuichisdarkmistress]

BEING A PROSHIPPER IS BEING ANTI CENSORSHIP AND DOES NOT MEAN YOU ENJOY EVERYTHING IT INCLUDES OR AT ALL