@Grave_Mind
Do you?
Fascism; “A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.”
So, let’s review what aspects of this the administration are adopting with their new policy, shall we?
Unilateral action = those at the top possessing complete power over what’s allowed in the archive, so check. Suppression of opposition is absolutely check if the rules currently implemented go into effect, as all the art that they don’t like, parody and satire included
as I have explained and not been answered will be removed from the archives of the community, thus preventing any opposition from expressing their voice. The regimenting of industry, in this case, also applies because art is the only dealing of the website and they are seeking to place restrictions on what is allowed to be shared that go beyond the pale as outlined before, so that’s a check too. Lastly, most of their current arguments including deferring to new internal processes as objective and attempting to foster unquestioning trust in themselves despite the recent debacles that have been caused by them and the leaked information about their actions mirror nationalism, though it’s distant enough that they’re not promoting this site as the only worthy pony site, so this is not a check. Obviously racism does not apply.
3/5, and they’re just getting started on censorship. Censorship is only ever undertaken by authoritarians in power attempting to suppress thoughts and ideas they don’t like. Whether the site staff is being pressured into doing this or not, whoever it’s coming from is an authoritarian (read: has commonalities with fascism) and is far more like a Nazi than anyone making or posting Aryanne on this site ever was.