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did people who keep going "AO3 doesn't need all that funding" want an environment where creators of popular media can sue you for writing fanfic of your favorite characters? Did you like forget that *nne R*ce was NOTORIOUS for that
AO3 is using part of those funds to fund their legal team that HELPS DEFEND YOUR RIGHT TO WRITE FANFIC.
I dunno about you but I'd prefer to have the freedom to create fanwork without Bandainamco breathing down my damn neck for writing BL fanfiction
I dunno about you but I'd prefer to have the freedom to create fanwork without Bandainamco breathing down my damn neck for writing BL fanfiction
And the thing about policing content is... If you think they'll stop at problematic content, you're wrong. At this point we /know/ some people with power think that ALL kinds of adult content, no matter how vanilla or safe they are, is 'problematic'. --
-- and if the livejournal and fanfiction dot net purges prove anything it's that they don't actually care if the work is actually problematic or "safe"; they get deleted and purged off without question SOLELY because it's 'adult'.
AO3 exists not to provide some kind of
AO3 exists not to provide some kind of
"space" for people to be "freaks". It exists to archive all kinds of transformative work, adult rated or not.
With that in mind that's also why they provide you with a way to filter out content you don't want to see, although admittedly AO3 has much room for improvement on that
With that in mind that's also why they provide you with a way to filter out content you don't want to see, although admittedly AO3 has much room for improvement on that
Although I don't actually blame them for not having a robust filtering system. To have something that robust would probably cost more than 130k per year, and because it deals with a LOT of tags and filters to go through....
Maintaining that is a lot of work to deal with, and many tech experts already talk about how AO3 is unlike any other kind of site in GENERAL, let alone a site that archives fictional work.
