It always grinds my gears when people like this person worship ao3 like it's the messiah of anti-censorship.
Like, let me get this straight.
Ao3 is totally fine with people putting in smut fics of minors(even irl ones), thinly veiled bigotry, and ai slop...but talking about palestine is a no-no?
Sorry, I thought ao3 was anti-censorship?
In reality, this was never about censorship. These folks are just looking for an excuse to make whatever vile and downright harmful content they want, and hide it behind some moral crusade while pligging their ears and going "lalalala! I'm not listening" when actual people are getting hurt.
Speaking of which, is their an alternative to ao3 you would suggest?
Challenge for prononcons understand what censorship actually is and not conflate it with safety laws. Literally, challenge. Also challenge to understand consent and BDSM.
Safety laws because once again, *suggestive* child art is used for grooming and as csam material, the perpetrators of which ESCALATE the content they consume (and porn sites are speed running escalation, pipelining you into that “hardcore” shit). Coppertones logo is the most popular csam image and it’s *fake.*
Fucking exactly! Not to mention calling out racism and aphobia etc gets you lambasted. Free speech and freedom from harassment my ass.
tAbOo ToPiCs. That can literally be a rape revenge story. No, what shippers are saying isn’t acceptable is the normalization, sexualization, romanticization and glorification of abuse and rape! Again, over saturation sends a message, it’s normalizing.
Say it how it is, damnit!
Nonprofit organization meant to fight capitalism… yet it uses its millions for… what exactly? How is that furthering literally any alleged cause??? Haven’t even heard shit of neither ao3 nor prononcons fighting against the actual censorship laws being enacted across the west. Looks like their activism begins and ends at their porn.
Why’s it all gotta be about archiving fics anyway? I don’t understand this focus on the archiving. It’s already on the internet.
Also, W and FFN HAS THAT STUFF. What!? When I was on those sites (all three basically same time), it was basically all the same.
Not to mention the gatekeeping THEY’RE exhibiting; AO3’s setup is like the most accessible. It’s understandable. It’s not confusing nor overwhelming like W now is. And FFN is like dead in the water because of some hoard of people harassing others or something. I think it was like fandom gatekeeping?
(Explanations for others, not you, Suchu.)
I am so glad you asked. The only one I know of is Squidge World Archive. It uses AO3’s open source setup tech stuff (not a techie) but doesn’t allow AI and has more accessible pairings and content warnings! I made a post going over the TOS and stuff. It does allow similar content but at least it’s an alternative. It has a decent user base but it’s much, much less known.
I’ve made some posts about hypothetical new sites and the setups too, if you’re interested. Obviously, those *taboo topics* would have to be allowed in ways that are important to the story like recovery, not the normalization, sexualization, etc. Wow, notice how that isn’t censorship! It’s not blocking any and all discussions of those topics! It’s not erasing any and all mention of those topics!
