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So there's the old controversy about AO3 floating around Tumblr and I don't feel like replying to any of those threads, so I'll put down my thoughts here.
The problem: OTW (the organization that runs AO3) is, for some good (or at least earnest, well-intentioned, good-in-principle) reasons that go to the very reasons for its founding, highly allergic to any moralistic censorship of any kind whatsoever.
Unfortunately, ( CW: references to (fictional) child sexual abuse, and other less severe but still nasty and misogynistic porn tropes. )
Anyway, yes I'm aware much better thinkers than me have spent a lot more time on this. But I'd still like to do this as a reminder to myself how AO3 (which I fully intend to continue using for the time being) got to this point in the first place.
Based on what I've written out, though, I think they can do better. And I think the times are changing in a way that eventually they will.
The problem: OTW (the organization that runs AO3) is, for some good (or at least earnest, well-intentioned, good-in-principle) reasons that go to the very reasons for its founding, highly allergic to any moralistic censorship of any kind whatsoever.
Unfortunately, ( CW: references to (fictional) child sexual abuse, and other less severe but still nasty and misogynistic porn tropes. )
Anyway, yes I'm aware much better thinkers than me have spent a lot more time on this. But I'd still like to do this as a reminder to myself how AO3 (which I fully intend to continue using for the time being) got to this point in the first place.
Based on what I've written out, though, I think they can do better. And I think the times are changing in a way that eventually they will.