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I'm deeply concerned about the new rules on pillowfort, the fact that they banned an artist already, the use of the words "good faith" and "bad faith" in their discussion (good faith specifically is one of the terms we have issue with in the Article 13 situation), the precedent it sets and the arguments happening in the comments. Oh, and all the people who seem more offended that people are disrespecting the staff/the beta than the nature of the site's response to these issues.

As an example: If they want to get an app in the app store, they're gonna have to play by exactly the same rules, and this is an example of the actions they're going to take when they need to change them. It doesn't bode well.

Do go and read Dreamwidth's policy explained here. Note Denise's way of responding to those issues, with the experience of years of discussing and policing those issues.

I am leaving tumblr because I stand with the community and I stand with artists. If Pillowfort is going to treat artists just as unprofessionally based on the content they're producing, and on a whim, then I can't justify going there either. Which is frustrating af because people seem determined to go. Twitter offered no reprieve. If anything the influx of new users only made the wankstorm more profound and it's an even worse place to be than it was before.

Also I can barely load pillowfort, so... Guess I'm resolved. Dreamwidth or bust.

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Thank you for this, I agree. Most people seem to think that disagreeing to these rules means being a pedophile and I've been quiet about it on twitter because of this.
While I would be happy to never, ever in my life ever see any art of anime children in sexual poses I don't condone censorship... and the explanation of the rule (and the fact they banned someone BEFORE that rule) is just so... weird. I don't know. I feel pretty good on here although the problem here is that you can't just be online... you have to INTERACT so it's kind of hard to do it for 5 minutes while you're on a break. But it's definitely friendlier and more professional than PF.

I find that really bothersome, actually. There's people on that post who are very happily slamming other people when they say this is where they draw the line as being pedos, and where are the mods of Pillowfort when that's going down? Some of it borders on bullying, which they say is against their TOS, but it's like some bullying is okay, so long as it's in support of staff? Calling someone as pedo cause they think the rules are badly considered and badly delivered is hella bullying in my book. If you're afraid of speaking out because you're gonna be labeled offensively by someone who doesn't know you, then what else can you call it?

I agree with that whole second part as well. I'm not into it myself. I know why some people who do it do it, and honestly what other people find sexy in their own homes, if it's not hurting anyone else (or animals) they can do what they like. People like to walk out the idea that underage art/fic leads to real life pedophilia, but if real life crime were massively caused by digital art, there would have been an uptick in beastiality when My Little Pony became popular, you know?

btw with Dreamwidth, you don't have to interact. I mean, I know we're building a community and that's obviously super important at the moment, but lurking is a group activity on this kind of site XD If you don't want to interact right now, or you want to just watch how other people are conversing, you can use 'add memory' to bookmark the page for later or 'track this' to track later comments, both of which mean you can put off engagement for later. It's super chill (and certainly way more than on tumblr where if you aren't there for the content it just gets drowned in reblogs and you lose it forever).