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Just wait until the anthrax butterflies finish migrating from Australia.
Just wait until the anthrax butterflies finish migrating from Australia.
Man this year is just full of surprises
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It is? Because that implies that they’ve never deleted images for their views before now.And they have, for glorifying Nazism; attacking people for their race, sexuality, and gender identity; and otherwise being inflammatory. The site has always had standards and made decisions about what views it hosts. Any reasonable person can see thatAlso, I would love an answer to my question. What moral right do you have to upload content to someone’s site that they don’t want on their site? Because, as the owners of the site, they can decide what they want on this site. That’s what it boils down to. Legally and morally, and people keep hiding behind “it’s a community and free place to upload pony images” (when it’s never been a place to host every pony image as the mods have pointed out) to avoid this simple question.
Or are you saying that derpibooru has never deleted or otherwise moderated images on this site for the views the images expressed before now?
Which still doesn’t jive with the reality that they have taken political stances on the past. And honestly, I think saying “we will not host homophobic/transphobic/racist images here” is a political stance, in that it says certain right-wing/far right political views will not be represented here (in order, those three are: on the border between right-wing and far right, right-wing, and far right, if you’re curious)
Also, I doubt Derpi has ever had an anti-censorship stance. Else they wouldn’t censor the above on the site
The idea the site is now removing content it considers immoral pretty much tells me its just going to get worse. It starts with Aryanne, then someones going to make a dailymail-esque article complaining about the immorality of derpibooru hosting Foalcon, gore, snuff or (god forbid) rape and then they’ll start removing that content. And after thats gone there’s going to be no hope of my “Aryanne being zebradommed against her will” stuff up here […]
I don’t know that censorship has ever historically worked. And depending on your definition of censorship, we have never, ever, been censorship free.The first image that appears to have been deleted for breaking a rule was on January 16, 2012, just 14 days after the site opened. If you consider deleting images for breaking rules “censorship”, then this site has been censoring images since within 2 weeks of it opening.We don’t have to host things we don’t want to host, or that artists ask us not to host.Just because something has a pony on it doesn’t mean we’ll host it.
No, it has. But there’s a difference between images that express views, and images that merely depict something.
I said in my post that they’ve taken political stances. My point is that some political stances are more appropriate than others
I should clarify, now that I’ve found the right word. By hosting things like rape, gore, foalcon, etc. they’ve taken a de-facto (albeit unofficial) pro-creative freedom and anti-censorship stance. Not an absolute one, since there are things they won’t host, but a very strong one.
Yeah — there’s some really vile shit here. But everyone has their own definitions of vile. And filters make it possible for people to not see things that they don’t like.
Yet imagine if someone decided to turn this website into a kid friendly one?
>Can it happen? Sure. Will it happen? Unless there is some serious outrage or it’s something they’re on the fence about or leaning towards removing, I doubt it.
While true, there is also a very fuzzy line between expression and depiction, and thew mods have to decide where that line is
Here I must fundamentally disagree. It’s more that they’ve decided to be pro-censorship on certain things, and not so much on others, which boils down to a pro-censorship stance in the end. It’s just a matter of application.
And what makes the stance they’ve taken inappropriate, in your opinion?
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