sometimes Iâm reminded that there are still people who donât know ao3 was literally created by incest shippers â and the siteâs sole purpose is to 1. be completely against censorship and 2. host all kinds of dark, taboo fics that are banned on other platforms â and the first ever fic that was posted on ao3 was a fic about an incest ship from supernatural.
you are in the house that was created by freaks. for freaks (affectionate). every disgusting thing you can think of is rightfully allowed and welcomed on ao3, because they are exactly the reasons why ao3 was created in the first place.
ao3 was created because its creators got tired of censorship, they got tired of dark and taboo fics getting banned on pro-censorship platforms, and they wanted a place that was safe for ALL FICS THAT WERE DARK AND TABOO.
ao3âs main principle is being against censorship and being proship / profic.
there are some things in fiction that make me uncomfortable, but instead of shaming people who are just minding their own business and not harming anyone in real life, I choose to curate my own internet experience by blocking/muting what I donât want to see. ao3 has excellent tagging system, so instead of being rude, instead of asking why the world doesnât revolve around your personal comfort, use their tagging system properly and you wonât see the things you donât want to see.
itâs your job to curate what you see. itâs not other peopleâs jobs or responsibilities to censor themselves for your personal comfort. the world does not revolve around you.
also you cannot censor âonly the things you personally hateâ without expecting everything else, that isnât of conservative beliefs, to be censored too. because censorship is a slippery slope and a fascist tool. I promise you there are people who think âwhy do tags for queer love even exist on ao3? theyâre grooming childrenâ.
if you allow the things that you hate to be censored â because someone with enough power gets to control what other people can and cannot create/consume, it will not stop at the things that you hate.
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