Censorship has always been bad. Its targets have always been anything that isn't normal normal things, such as porn.
The internet is not here to babysit your child. The parent or guardian is the one who should be supervising, not everyone else.
To even be asked to give their identification through a credit card, driver's license, or whatever does not grant you privacy and freedom whatsoever.
Apparently, anyone who isn't 'normal' whose art is designated as something to protect the children when it's anything but.
Queer and disabled people have art and words they want to share with the world, and to block them out is a case of censorship. Sex workers have to deal with this, too.
What Visa and Mastercard are doing to the adult games made for an adult audience, and where children can't even enter the space because they are moderated by people there.
Everyone has to deal with this horror because why would anyone want to have a breach of privacy and censorship of what people deem either not grown-up enough or 'not normal'.
No matter how seemingly powerful a company is, a leak of personal information will occur. I do not want to have my face or any of my identification other than my age on my bio.
Seriously, even when people point out that even if the Tea App has poor security, leaks from major companies have happened and continue to do so. This won't deter because power is more important than the safety of their citizens.
When people can't log into basic things and even things such as basic dictionaries and encyclopedias at the risk of being censored, fucking dictionaries and encyclopedias, then it’s time to question what the hell they are doing!
I also want to legit point out that not even the most vanilla of sex is safe because it's still sex at the end of the day. With the major anti-sex attitude and not just because of refusal to discuss it in any meaningful way, it's just anti-sex that for some reason these people also wants to know your genitals and bathroom.
Children have always been expendable to the right-wing conservatives. Given how many criminals there are in the Trump administration, and colluding treasonously, it's pretty obvious that they don't give a shit and use children as a shield literally.
Seriously, the way the Trump administration said Tylenol instead of the actual ingredient said so much about how they are willing to hurt children and women. Anyone who even believes them is stupid. It's pretty clear they cherry-picked it for a self-imposed deadline when all they reveal is utter stupidity in their cruelty.
Seriously, children have been used as meat shields. Roblox used feeble attempts to protect their money. Which is sad too because there are no kid-dedicated spaces on the internet. Difference between kids-friendly and kids-dedicated spaces. Godoka, I remember the kids dedicated spaces on the internet, like all those games.
Nowadays, kid either have YouTube or whatever their parents have access to. I think the only kids thing I can recall is the PBS Kids website, and it's not something like Club Penguin or the like.
There are things that are kid-friendly but not kid-dedicated, and kids need kid-dedicated spaces on the internet where they cannot be taken advantage of and things are monitored. Y'know where adult games for adults are restricted for adults but now can't even be bought by adults due to censorship.
Censorship is bad for everyone and everything.
There are so many cases for anti-censorship. The Hays Code needed to die, and their creatives knew that. Sure, they found a way to walk around it, but it wasn't easy, nor is it actually good.
For fuck's sake, do we need to bring up fandom history as an obvious reason for people crying out for censoring out AO3's fictional depictions of whatever they are against? When every other social media site refusing to
The very fact that I have to see 'unalive' or whatever terms there are for what censored word that the US does not want in their social media even though death and much better words for it have been used. The mortal coil, anyone?
We could talk all day about how they don't give a shit regarding gun control at all, especially when children have to live in fear of shootings. Oh yeah, the right to guns and all, but for the safety of everyone, limitations should be instituted and be restrictive. I mean, it's gotten to the point that other countries know full well the US' trigger-happy status.
When gatekeeping and cringe culture are pervasive because people can't bear being sincere, sincerity is much better than trying to maintain some kind of pride that you aren't cringy.
One of the reasons why K-pop Demon Hunters even garnered the response that it did was its sincerity. Regardless of its flaws, it's more sincere than something that tried to be hip and failed miserably and hated it.
Seriously, where is your fun and whimsy? There is decorum for such things, but when it comes to things that hurt nobody, why not express that joy and whimsy instead of shouting down anything that makes you look like a 'cringy' idiot?
I sincerely hate the word 'gooning'. It's anti-sex censorship and an insult in the worst way. Goons belong to bad guys' henchmen, not lusting after a fucking fictional character, get that out of my face. I'm an oldie in the fandom space, and the censorship makes me scream in my hands with all the moralistic shit going on.
I hate the censorship. I feel a part of me died when I heard my brother, out loud, say the word 'unalive'. It's that bad for me when I prefer to use the word death or any other idiom.
I can read NSFW fanfiction with a stone face. I don't want to see any more NSFW stuff being censored when I have met that censorship on every social media platform I'm in, including Tumblr. Can people just express those without tickling some moralistic people? Why should everyone else care about those guys when curation of fandom experience is a thing? Blocking is a thing?
Parents are the ones who should be supervising what their children are doing. So, if my young niece and nephew were to browse the internet, I, the supervising adult, wouldn't let them touch my phone or iPad, specifically for my reading tabs that are always on. They really shouldn't have their eyes on NSFW art. My nephew should be happy with his love of cars and Pikachu while my niece should be happy to indulge in dressing up and playing with the Labubu she does have. My cousin stated she paid some 70 bucks for one, which Labubu better be worth it. I paid more for pins and since I curate my collections, what my cousins paid for is nothing in comparison I've been in far too many expensive hobbies and only settled with pins because it's flat space and unlike others, I'm pretty sure I can display them in time. For now, they are in box jail and only taken out for pintography. I have to see if we still have microphones so I could take photos of my Kpop Demon Hunters collection.
The internet is not your oyster. It's your responsibility to curate your experience. Honestly, seeing the drama in the pin community is enough to make me sigh. At least, during my twenty years of fandom, I encountered these flames and wars, but I do not want to touch them. I'm way too old for that, and it's stupid.
Using children as an excuse to do horrible things isn't the way when there are ways to provide children with safety and comfort. Attacking everyone and trying to portray as if they are the arbiter of all things good and objective is wrong.
