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With the very possible attack on art coming in 2025, unless something changes, sharing this discord server that is for compiling tweets/articles on pro-censorship, why it's bad, why it's parroting fascist rhetoric.

The tweets are linked in the server, along with the text pasted directly into channels due to the inability to see threads if one doesn't have a Twitter account (if you can not see individual posts now either, there may be videos unable to watch.)

There is also a channel of sexual taboo fantasies, a thread from @/purity_culture on Twitter and now Bluesky complete with the screenshots shared, and links provided to research articles.

Among other threads from other users sharing evidence on how those with pro-censorship mindsets are harmful, often racist, and/or do not have care for children or survivors in mind.

There are a small few other things within this server, but the main purpose of it was to archive and make talking points and research easy to share with people (and to simply have them on hand), so that is the reason why. Censorship was just the biggest concern.

There's still a lot that could be put in, that may be put it, but just the energy to get so much beforehand was a lot. A lot that was run off of determination and a strong desire to be able to easily grab things, but still a lot of energy.

We're aware there are several other issues with what could happen in 2025, and what is happening even now-this is not an "importance over other issues". This is because if we get hit with tougher censorship laws, and there's already banning and burning books, people need to stop now with their pro-censorship views and realize no matter what "morally correct" thing you think is better than what ""problematic"" people like, we're all getting struck down.

Censorship is not your friend, even if it's for art you find uncomfortable or disgusting.

#proship #profiction #anti censorship #purity culture #censorship #proshipper #important

i am enjoying the possibility of that orange bastard being dead and the gov running over themselves, along with MAGA to say that "no guys, he's totally alive still!" with old videos and side profiles of "him" talking to other people, but not even his face, or a recent video or something that wasn't posted 2 months ago. congrats on letting that fucking moron's face and voice be the nightmare of everyone that's not in the fucking cult. since he's been in office we haven't gone a week without hearing his shit voice or seeing his damn face, it's just been non-stop stressing, nausea, panic, etc, so of fucking course the public will notice when the fuckhead is not in their news 24/7, or when evidence is a lie, that bastard's been burned into people's memories because no one told him to shut the fuck up

#ive so SICK of seeing him and hearing his fucking voice #it makes me phyiscally ill #when he got into office back in 2016 i felt like i was going to die #and had to go to school while being scared and wanting to vomit #and for the last months i've gotten worse with my paranoia and anxiety about going Anywhere #about ppl wanting to kill me and other things #if he's gone i feel like it'd be easier to do something hopefully because the cult likes him but who is going to follow his shitty lapdog #we can only hope though #for now theyre just refusing to say he's dead and using old shit to say he's alive #he could be in the hostpial for all we know but god im hoping not

waffuekwat

Constantly headcanoning a stranger as a pedophile is insane and weird. :/

Constantly headcanoning a stranger with a mental disorder is insane and weird.

Constantly headcanoning what a stranger sexually gets off to is insane and weird.

waffuekwat

And I do think you should care about how the Government is painting Queer people as pedophiles. If all attention is on Queer people being pedophiles, every last one of them, then where is the attention to the actual pedophiles and predators harming children going? You can not ignore that with lack of care, because that too will only bring more harm to children in need, and serve as a cover-up for those that want to abuse children.

It's already been used as such. Example being Churches that claim queerness as a sin, and/or as a group of people looking to harm the children, using the collective fear of individuals to hide their own crimes. Scapegoating queer people. Yet more pastors are found out to be the actual predators sexually abusing children.

#anti censorship #censorship

Constantly headcanoning a stranger as a pedophile is insane and weird. :/

Constantly headcanoning a stranger with a mental disorder is insane and weird.

Constantly headcanoning what a stranger sexually gets off to is insane and weird.

#you're upset but you're upset at people that played no part in your trauma #we are strangers #you're allowed to be upset because being abused is damaging #but taking it out on strangers isn't going to help #you or the strangers #blocked for everyone's health #would recommend just not engaging with my post #take care of yourself

kyleblackpaw

i feel like we as a digital society have forgotten the important rules of the internet

Don't feed the trolls

Never give out personal information

Anonymity is the best defense

Don't click suspicious links

Don't click popups and ads

Just because it's written doesn't mean it's true

You are responsible for your own experience

There is porn of everything, act accordingly

beastliness

more people need to give themselves permission to write and draw pornography

beastliness

it is virtuous and necessary that you write, draw, and distribute pornography

radfemart

can we start with not conflating "erotic/sexual art or writing" with pornography

beastliness

no lmao

aetherograph

@thoughtscout "Erotica" was first coined by people wanting to get around censorship laws that would ban pornography under the legal classification of Obscenity, but would not ban romance novels, or Literature, as that was "of artistic worth" and therefore protected speech. Here is the USA Legal definition, pulled from Wikipedia, of "Obscenity":

United States obscenity law deals with the regulation or suppression of what is considered obscenity and therefore not protected speech or expression under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. In the United States, discussion of obscenity typically relates to defining what pornography is obscene.

It's important to understand that key idea, that "obscene" is a legal classification that marks something as not protected by Freedom of Speech, The Press, and Free Expression, which is the First Amendment.

There are several ethical problems with having a way to exempt something from protection, and therefore censor it. It encourages people who want to censor things to try and get them legally classed as exceptions to any Freedom of Speech laws on the books. Now, with art, there are exemptions that should exist--art that harms people in the making of it, for example, which is what Child Sexual Abuse Material is, and why we call it that. We also classify filmed evidence of murder done for the film's sake as an exception. But the way people define the word "obscenity" is extremely different depending on who you ask, and because definitions in this country are set by precedent, i.e. judges ruling on court cases, the definition of things like "obscenity" keeps changing.

In 1873, for example, the Comstock Act said that birth-control information and condoms were "obscene" and banned sending them through the mail, which meant a lot of people were cut off from being able to learn about birth control (because nobody was learning about it in school--most people at the time didn't go to school after learning basic reading skills, if that; children worked, just like their adult relatives, to support their families). Do you think a book like this one that educates about puberty and sex, including birth-control, is obscene and pornography? Well it was, at one time, and BANNED. And I don't tell you this so you can go, "Well people were backwards then, we're Enlightened now, we'd only ban the RIGHT things" People have always been people, just as wise AND just as foolish as we are now, and progress has never been a straight line.

Our point is that pornography is an important thing to make, and to fight for, and to CALL "pornography". It's important to hold the line and not let people begin to call WRITTEN and DRAWN things the same as PHOTOGRAPHED and FILMED things. For MANY DECADES, people have been trying to ban and censor pornography that has involved no one but the author or artist in the making, and is therefore HARMING no actual human beings. A photograph involves real, live, breathing human beings; a drawing involves a piece of paper and a pen and the artist.

Whatever you think is "just erotica" or even "not erotica at all" is going to be called porn and obscene by a malicious and controlling person like say Warriors For Innocence, who successfully scared LiveJournal into banning a whole lot of writing and drawing and also queer and survivor support communities and users in 2006. These same folks are behind the Purity/Anti culture on Tumblr, and members successfully lobbied to pass FOSTA-SESTA and the subsequent "Titty Ban" on any website that relies on an app. FOSTA-SESTA, btw, has made human trafficking and harm to sex workers WORSE, not better.

So you need to start fighting WITH pornographers who are fighting censorship, because the people you think are on your side about only banning and censoring "the REAL bad stuff" are going to turn around and call YOUR stuff just as bad. They're already calling queer people obscene just for existing. They are calling us child abusers again, just for breathing. I don't think you want to be on the side of that rhetoric, because it will come for you and call YOU obscene and worthy of arrest, in the end.

every day it's back in my head

#god #im going back to work

i came to your blog to read up on wtf is going on with censorship (i have only the vaguest idea of what proship and antiship mean and i don't even ship anything enough to care) but your blog is just full of you biting people. feels like i'm in the wrong club.

that's me biting my friends- but this blog is actually pretty much pushed down from my first blog, to just a secondary. i don't sign in much anymore, if even at all, except to post something and leave.

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Proship/Profiction means to be against harassment. It does not mean someone is into taboo tropes, Dead Dove Do Not Eat. Many people are into those, but that's not a default. If you see something you don't like, you'll curate your own experience by blocking and moving on, instead of taking it upon yourself to harass or demand someone/something shouldn't exist.

Antiship means being against Proship, but often enough it connects with being For harassment, calling for someone/something to not exist anymore. There are several cases where Antiship circles are racist, bigot, anti-kink, and other cases.

Both parties can harbor bad people, however, and that's important to note. Often times Antishippers will make it out to be that only Proshippers are the bad guys, but not to worry because since an Antishipper doesn't like taboo tropes, they're good. Which is dangerous black and white thinking.

Also, there's sometimes the thought that creating art with taboo topics is only okay if it's for coping. (However, often I just see Antishippers repeatedly harass people regardless of their trauma, sometimes even stating an individual wasn't traumatized enough, that they should have it done to them again.) This can give the very invasive mindset that someone is entitled to know a stranger's trauma to determine if they're allowed to exist, to create art, etc. If an individual is not the "perfect" victim, they do not deserve to create, and should hide all their art, and anything else relating to it. (Giving the impression that traumatized individuals are better to be hidden, than to be seen if they do not fit into the public eye of how a "real" victim acts.)

I know there are posts about how being in fandom isn't activism, and that's not the point. If you look at it beyond just fandom, and call it what it is, Proshippers are just those that stand against censorship, while Antishippers stand with censorship. I think that's something that really needs to be stated, and made clear in this current change of climate.

[Links relating to the above] (AntiFan-Archive) | (Thread of research for taboo fantasies. Bsky & Twitter) | (Asian Fandom Harassment) | (Educational Research & Studies) | (Twitter Thread of some things in AntiFan-Archive) |

Now, recently, payment processors like MasterCard and Visa were "pressured" by an Australian group called Collective Shout to remove the ability to purchase Adult games on Steam and itch.io. (Better information here.)

On top of that, the United States has reintroduced KOSA (The Kids Safety Act) bill, and there is a push for ID to be uploaded to third-party sites in order for them to be of use to adults. There's also the Online Safety Act from the United Kingdom. I do not know how long the Online Safety Act has been into play, but I do know that KOSA has been reintroduced several times.

On paper, and in simple terms, "Protecting the kids" is reasonable. However, it's not for the kids. In the United States for one, if protecting the kids was such an important motive, child marriage would not still be legal in 34 states, and in Utah an 18-year-old would not be able to get off easy after raping a 13-year-old girl ([1] | [2]) because one would assume they'd care for the kids.

It's packaged that way because of course most people would want to protect children, and if you're against it then you must be overreacting or hiding something.

There's also the case that adult content is often made out to be something to be ashamed of, embarrassed about, or in some religious context, something that should only happen within marriage, so hitting for porn bans seems like an easy target. 'Who would stand up to protect porn?'

But there's been posts lately of people not being able to access information on Gaza, more protests are being snuffed out, pushed to the brink of not existing of platforms, LGBTQ+ context is being affected by these laws, and the obvious interest with ID uploading is to be able to surveillance people a lot easier.

Not just that, with how broad a term of what is or isn't acceptable being in the hands of the government, things like information of sexual assualt can also be handle, closing more doors to those in help of a space to figure out what's happening to them, or help for an escape because at the end of the day, it may as well be just the same as porn in the eyes of the government that protects it's own, not the people.

[Bsky thread of Collective Shout]

[Link to second image information.]

A point from the thread:

[First Image Text:]

This is what the head of Collective Shout had to say about the girls used in the film 'Cuties':

"The girls may have been used unwittingly — but still inappropriately — to a noble end. do these questionable filming choices make Cuties a film that “promotes paedophilia”? I am not persuaded."

[Third Image Text:]

I point out the above not just based on how other people feel about Cuties BUT WHAT SHE HERSELF SAYS "The girls are shown twerking and grinding, fingers in mouths, the camera zooming into the crotch , hands in fake stimulation" she believes these young girls have been used but 'TO A NOBLE END'?

You do not get to call Japan a culture of pedophilia for drawn fiction but when faced with a film that uses real child actors while ALSO agreeing those kids were sexualized in a deeply problematic way, but say its a 'gray area' BECAUSE IT'S FOR "THE GREATER GOOD"?

CALL COMING FROM INSIDE!

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(Bsky link)More on Collective Shout:

[First Image Text:]

These are the people behind Collective Shout, KOSA and all the other global censorship and online privacy invasion initiatives: "The Committee has produced reports and working papers on implementing digital safety by design for children"

Amazing to see 'pornography' listed alongside 'Terrorism'

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And more information on Global Online Safety Regulators Network (Bsky link)

Another Link. About Global Online Safety's Three Year plan for 2025-2027.

#anti censorship #censorship #proship #antiship #profiction

waffuekwat

even if it's done by a higher power, i do in fact also blame antishippers for the acceptance of censorship, and i'm going to call them as they are. if you are an anti, antishipper, anti-proship, whatever, you are Pro-Censorship.

groups of people will just accept censorship because it's removing their discomforts, but don't seem to have the larger thought process to realize they are the ones in charge of their internet experience, not others. you block and move on. putting trust in government and other third parties to remove things you are uncomfortable with is stupid, because it doesn't stop there. the government now decides what is uncomfortable for you, for your friends, for the whole internet, and they are uncomfortable with you being queer, with you having knowledge, with you being socially aware enough to stand up against them.

you've spent so long panicking over fictional kinks, or for fucking sakes with the undertale fandom, someone drawing their own oc in a way you don't like that you've made it easier for people to bow their heads and eat out of bowls those that want to censor what they don't want you to see are feeding you

starrbar

I'm trying not to post about this on main anymore, but since I'm working on my video script again, I'll share this one because WOW you worded this so well. It's perfect.

"The government now decides what is uncomfortable for you, for your friends, for the whole internet, and they are uncomfortable with you being queer, with you having knowledge, with you being socially aware enough to stand up against them."

Hell, it goes beyond even taboo art. I've heard people say they're glad for the current pressuring of payment processors against nsfw games, and they don't pause and think about how badly they themselves will be hurt if censorship like this is accepted.

The people in power WILL come for you next, every time!

logging off again.

try not to be annoying about censorship bc i think that's what got me blocked by old friends on discord or why they left the server idk no one talks about things but also god am i also going to be annoying with the friends i still talk to

#maybe bc it's antiship v proship but even then i urgh #if it was so stupid it wouldn't be such a big talking point #it's really just pro censorship v anti censorship