[ you must chill ]
Aug. 3rd, 2007 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterliveeverybody 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.
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.
[this is ponderosa]
Date: 2007-08-04 09:24 pm (UTC)That said, I'm not contesting anything that Six Apart has done, nor you or winterlive's opinion on the value of this piece in particular or possibly my work as a whole. I fully understand Six Apart's position and I support their right to keep content they find objectionable or risky (like my art) off their private servers. I also fully acknowledge the value of your and winterlive's opinions and your right to express or disagree with me.
Thank you.
-Ponderosa
pond@ponderosa121.com
Re: [this is ponderosa]
Date: 2007-08-06 12:15 am (UTC)I'll go to the GJ tonight and check the links that you posted, and hopefully have a more coherent response later.