"We won't be checking people's ages" yeah because being listed as a sex offender is JUST what conten

[dragonlady7]

but i am just so astonished, at the weird cognitive dissonance, anyway, the witcher, censorship

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Content creators who are concerned that the rules of the exchange don’t adequately protect them from not getting listed as sex offenders are encouraged to (a) find other fandom events that they feel better protect them from not getting listed as sex offenders; (b) consult their own lawyers about how best not to get listed as sex offenders; and © consult their own mental health professionals. (Your picture was not posted)

For the record, since F&S is too graceful to say it:

F&S is being run on the same model as AO3, where everyone has to click through a notice stating that they are of age to consume adult content, in order to see M or E prompts or material.

Meanwhile EBB is also allowing adult content and says the following (in this post which is too long for me to rb):

As it stands in the server we do has a strict and clear separation of  nsfw channels and general channels. As we cannot ask for proof of  someones age other than an intro stating as such we follow a policy of  if we find out you aren’t the age you say you are then you are instantly  banned from the server and not allowed to participate in the event. 

Which... if you read it... that policy consists of... taking on faith that you’re the age you say you are.

Which is exactly the same thing as AO3 taking your word for it when you click on that disclaimer, which is good enough for their lawyers, so it’s good enough for me. It’s good enough all around! Also it is the same.

On top of all that, it is entirely wild to me that people seem to genuinely think there’s some government authority that is going to involve itself in fanwank about fictional characters. I mean, I shouldn’t be surprised, this isn’t new, but like. (Also, if they did involve themselves, they’d care so much that your adult material wasn’t Problematic??? Well this is just explicit gay sex, that’s fine, but that one, oh ho there’s toesucking, better arrest ‘em! Like, how do you think any of this works?)

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[vulgarweed]

On top of all that, it is entirely wild to me that people seem to genuinely think there’s some government authority that is going to involve itself in fanwank about fictional characters.

And it's also entirely wild to me that they think that if this government authority did exist, that that would be a good thing!! Have they...um...looked at government lately?

[dragonlady7]

I KNOW RIGHT!?!?!??!!?!?

well.
others have taken over the sporking, at least.

[vulgarweed]

hahahah good.

It's so weird because it is not actually illegal for minors to read sexually explicit fiction. It's really really not. Some YA books have explicit scenes. Nobody gets carded for adult fiction at the bookstore or the library. Nobody's going to jail for giving a teenager a book with sex in it. So OK, if it makes you feel icky, so be it - but bringing legalese into it is such a bizarre overreaction.

[dragonlady7]

yes, the person who was the reason I got myself involved (do you know dsudis on AO3?) is a librarian who spends a lot of time giving sexually explicit material to minors as part of the ol' day job so like. LOL. this is Known.

It's utterly insane, and it's why when people are like "why involve yourself in drama" I'm like I could not not open my mouth when confronted with this kind of lunacy that people were apparently taking at face value??? it's nuts! it's just nuts!!
Anyway.