It's easy to say (like I've seen some people do) that all's ok & they're only stopping the true pedos & terrorists etc... but is it really going to end there? What if someone starts squealing over every single squick, illegal or not, or insist that only 'nice' things should happen. Doesn't matter for me - I've got my coyotedroppings archive started up in GJ & I think I'll make a mirror of it in Insane journal as well.
I don't know how much of a slippery slope we're looking at because everything is so fucking vague and there are so many questions left unanswered, and it is conceivable that 6A might start enforcing more moralistically, seeing as they are a private company etc. I am marginally comforted by the latest post, which ilustrates the kind of questions they'll be using to work out context, but still, it's all insanely dodgy. I don't think I have anything to worry about because I don't write in HP (yet??) but I should probably make a back-up, because 6A is so fucktarded who knows what they'll be up to next. It feels like the rules can change any second.
"It feels like the rules can change any second." Exactly - 6A will want to look good to it's main investors, so anything suspect is a potential target. If a company heavily influenced by fundamentalist organizations and/or individuals becomes a major investor for example, there's nothing to stop them pressuring the LJ team to ban slash. There's already plenty of wider-interest archives around like AldoraWorld that explicitly ban all references to & advocation of homosexuality, regardless of the rating. The HP fandom is a relatively easy target - it's big, it's high-profile, & it's also very female in it's demographic. Add to that the fact that it's based on a children's story, & you can see the powder-keg potential - the public outside the fandom are *not* going to view it the same way as, say, Star trek slash even if the child characters are aged.
the public outside the fandom are *not* going to view it the same way as, say, Star trek slash even if the child characters are aged. Well, I dunno. I mean, the latest Big Issue has a feature on HP, and one short article in it was about HP fanfiction, including slash. From a HP slasher's POV it was a pile of crap but the biggest complaint was that it was badly written romance, and there was that condescending "look a the weirdoes" vibe, but there wasn't anything moralistic about it at all. Having said that TBI is a lefty magazine, Australia is on the whole fucked when it comes to censorship, and the US is much more conservative. And when anything threatens the $$$, corporations turn into giant cowards.
I think that if this stuff about 6A going public is true, THEN we really gotta worry. "For the shareholders" is employed by corporations to excuse their amoral bullshit more than "for the children."
"the biggest complaint was that it was badly written romance," *inhales deeply, and resists temptation to rant on about the majority of HP slashers & hetters on my f/l alone being able to run giant rings around many published romance writers in the romance/scifi/fantasy genres alone, and how I know because I watch weepingcock & writers_orgasm, and sometimes take a brave peek at the rude scenes in the romance novels I sort at St. Vinnie's*
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Date: 2007-07-20 11:10 am (UTC)Well, I dunno. I mean, the latest Big Issue has a feature on HP, and one short article in it was about HP fanfiction, including slash. From a HP slasher's POV it was a pile of crap but the biggest complaint was that it was badly written romance, and there was that condescending "look a the weirdoes" vibe, but there wasn't anything moralistic about it at all. Having said that TBI is a lefty magazine, Australia is on the whole fucked when it comes to censorship, and the US is much more conservative. And when anything threatens the $$$, corporations turn into giant cowards.
I think that if this stuff about 6A going public is true, THEN we really gotta worry. "For the shareholders" is employed by corporations to excuse their amoral bullshit more than "for the children."
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