[ you must chill ]

[winterlive]

everybody knows i love freedom of expression.

this ain't it. (link is nsfw and also pretty despicable, imho.)

maybe we'll all pick up and wander off or whatever. maybe fandom will decide to go all haywire and make their own space on the web, maybe we'll all have to uproot ourselves and exodus from the reign of stinky stinky six apart. but let's not make martyrs out of molehills, okay?


eta: in case i was somehow unclear, the following two things are true:
1. i find that image repulsive. personally, ethically, ugh. i also find rapefic, bestiality and torture to be by and large repulsive.
2. i cannot fault lj for banning it because it's illegal. i do not support the banning of any user over the perceived offensiveness of their material, only its legality.

eta II, much after the fact: i see that people are still keen to talk this one over. good for you. it's good to keep informed. but just so you know, a lot of information came out between the time this was posted and the three days later that some of this conversation is happening in. we know more things now, things have been confirmed, proven false, proven different. i therefore stand by two things i said in the original post: 1. sixapart stinks, and 2. you must, MUST chill. i stand by all things said in the first ETA.

Comments

[balefully.livejournal.com]

Ah, I disagree. I don't think the law is there to prevent young women from drawing Harry Potter chan fanart.

I think the law is there to protect actual real children from actual real abuse.

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

you don't feel that sexualizing children contributes to that?

[balefully.livejournal.com]

No, I don't. Not in this way.

[traveller.livejournal.com]

so it's awesome and cool if it's a young woman drawing fan art, but if it were some grubby old kiddie fiddler sharing a drawing like that, that's wrong wrong wrong?

you can't have it both ways.

[balefully.livejournal.com]

I didn't say that. I don't want it both ways. I think the grubby old kiddie fiddler should be able to share a drawing like that too, as long as no actual kiddies were fiddled at any point.