An open letter
Jan. 14th, 2004 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holzman_tweedDear people at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fandom_scruples,
Your words and your deeds do not match. You claim:
We are asking those listed below to please lock down their fic. Nothing else.
Yet you maintain a black list headed with the words, Please don't read these author's works.
Blacklists and boycotts go well beyond "asking." "Asking" involves being willing to accept "no" for an answer. More accurate terms would be "demanding," "pressuring," and "attempting to force."
You say,
It's not about censorship.
yet you also say
There was some controversy about ivyblossom being on the list as she locks down her fics on her website. While we applaud her doing this, we've browsed several fics on her LJ containing what we consider to be adult content and she will remain on the list until those things are locked down.
You have set yourself up as the arbiter of what "ought" be locked away from minors. That makes you a censor, and what you are doing censorship.
Regards,
Dan
fandom_scruples,Your words and your deeds do not match. You claim:
We are asking those listed below to please lock down their fic. Nothing else.
Yet you maintain a black list headed with the words, Please don't read these author's works.
Blacklists and boycotts go well beyond "asking." "Asking" involves being willing to accept "no" for an answer. More accurate terms would be "demanding," "pressuring," and "attempting to force."
You say,
It's not about censorship.
yet you also say
There was some controversy about ivyblossom being on the list as she locks down her fics on her website. While we applaud her doing this, we've browsed several fics on her LJ containing what we consider to be adult content and she will remain on the list until those things are locked down.
You have set yourself up as the arbiter of what "ought" be locked away from minors. That makes you a censor, and what you are doing censorship.
Regards,
Dan
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Smells Like Teen Bait
Date: 2004-01-15 12:31 pm (UTC)FUCK WITH YOUR OWN STUFF!
Or at least understand the charactors well enough to dally with them in ways they would enjoy; EG: The Secret Diaries of Mistress Janeway. (http://www.novad.org/) Good stories that happen to be FAR beyond NC17 and entirely consistant with the more "public" logs.
Wank is like poetry - for some reason known only to God and the usual suspects, there seems to be an assumption that there's a talent exception.
The only genre where worse offenses against English and good taste occur is in the genre of "survivor" writings - though Lord knows, Gorean Subbies With Brackets are very nearly as bad. (As a sterotype - I've known some very good poets who nonetheless were Gorean Subbies With Brackets - and Online! Only!)
But they are rare enough to make me click on links to their writings without a respectable reccomendation.