Dartz Wrote:It's different. It's not like TvTropes at all really. TvT didn't until recently have policies about content (Well, you know what I mean), while FFN has had them since before I joined and makes you specifically aware of them before posting anything to the site. AFF has existed as a place to host 'Adult' fics for some time and FictionPress for original stories.In a way, though, it is. If you fail to enforce the policy in any significant way, then the policy might as well not exist. Yes, it means that legally you can get away with a sudden enforcement of it... but that doesn't mean you won't get away from the social consequences.
And, unfortunately, it is also slightly conflated with the idea of "freedom of speech." Freedom of speech doesn't mean "I can say whatever the frell I want to anyone". It just means the government can't clamp down on your speech unless it's a clear and present danger at the moment it happens like yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded venue. It doesn't protect you on private sites, or from consequences from your actions such as insulting someone's mother to their face when they're drunk.
I don't agree with any of the handling of the TVT purge, or even this new bit of the FF purge, but on the other hand, it is their sites, and if they've just now decided to purge objectionable content, either because they're tired of fielding the complaints, got their advertising threatened, or because they just didn't like it in the first place, that's all up to them. On the other hand, I'm unlikely to stick around someplace that's that... capricious with decision making.
On the other hand, I wonder if this is just the start of a handful of "morally superior" groups that are going to try their damndest to make (perceived as) adult material scurry back under the floorboards where they'd prefer it stay.
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