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friendofthecrows · 2 years

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People can block me for talking about this too much, whatever. But here's the thing: I'm anti-censorship so I don't care and will continue talking about it. Don't want to see it? Block me. Block the tags. You know, just like you can do with things you don't want to see on ao3.

#ao3 #censorship #hal rambles #yes it might not seem like an important issue but it is important to me #i am very strict about the preservation of information #you cannot remove works from an archive on a censorship basis #how do people not understand that is BAD #it doesn't matter if it's a small archive or a big archive #a fanfic archive or one of historical records and literature #i will pick a fight with you if you mess with ANY archive #i am against any form of book banning #and this extends to amateur works as well #in fact #it ESPECIALLY applies to the works of random people #look what has happened to social media #look what has happened to livejournal and ff.net #and now you want ao3 to have the same fate?#eventually where will we be able to discuss ANYTHING remotely disturbing or not approved of by mainstream society #queer issues will be targeted #trauma survivors will be silenced #academic and education discussions will be supressed #this has happened time and time again #look at actual Liturature TM. the books that are most often banned in schools and libraries are not the awful ones #they're the ones that ask questions about our society and biases. they're the ones that discuss the challenges marginalized people face #in all it's ugliness #those are the ones that get banned

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