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Feb. 10th, 2011 02:32 pmTo preface this post, I reiterate that my livejournal is a dictatorship. I can delete or screen comments that piss me off1, I reserve the right to enact comment policies, and basically, it all boils down to "this is my space, and if you don't like it, take your toys, go somewhere else". As always, no one and nothing is forcing you to read this journal --you should, if you find me interesting and want to keep up with what's going on in my life-- but if I am too much supporting policies you hate, you are welcome to leave and never return.
(And if you do, can you leave a Highly Dramatic comment explaining why? That would be _awesome_. I've never had someone publicly flouce away before, just flame-wars and trolls and things that lead to me holding grudges for two years even after I've kinda-sorta gotten an apology and I think I should move forward on that shouldn't I oh hm.)
I emphatically dislike censorship.
There's a Mark Twain quote that runs something like "censorship is telling a grown man he can't have a steak because a baby can't chew it" which more or less sums up the entirety of my feelings on the matter. I don't like censorship, because I don't like the idea that *you* get to pick what media *I* want to engage in, and I certainly don't like censorship because children age at different rates and become adults at different rates, and I don't think you can have a blanket statement of "all children are too young for this thing right now, so none of them can even have the choice to access it.3"
In general, I would like the world to trust people --and that includes the under-eighteen sorts of people as well-- to be able to tell whether or not they would be interested in consuming some sort of media. Sometimes they will accidentally stumble across things they find uninteresting or horrifying (or too "adult", regardless of age), and I trust them to take better care to not do that again. As a producer of media, I think the best thing I can do for this is make more controversial information into a choice --click the cut if you want to read porn, leave a private comment if you want to be on the sexfilter, this link is NSFW-- that intelligent people can choose to take or not as they feel appropriate.
All that being said, I'm censoring some of the <31WPorns I've gotten this year (Which will probably get put online somewhere in the next week or so).
Go ahead, call me a hypocrite: __________
( Reasons of why involves a trigger warning for noncon and dubcon )
I hate censorship. But it's my journal, and I'm not going to post things that make me uncomfortable.
(And on a related aside, I am sure as _hell_ not going to post anything in which the word "faggot" is used. If you're clearly making an effort for it to be a positive and reclaimed5 word, maybe, but when it's definitely a slur? That is hate language, and means we're done.)
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Not at all often --twice in the last year. Once with a comment left specifically saying "I'm screening this, please don't talk about that filter2 in a public space", and once because I don't like hearing "I told you so", and I see no reason why I should keep that sort of immaturity on my page. Helpful hint! If the general tone of the post seems to be tired or upset or weary or anything other than amused and jubilant, it probably means I'm not in a mood to put up with that shit right now.
2: Amusingly, the filter in question doesn't exist. But if it did, it would be strictly "don't talk about this filter in a public space."
3: And sure, some things should probably be put farther out of reach than others --I agree with the abstract concept of R rated films and the like, and I don't think any eight year old should be viewing hardcore pornography. But anything you're horrified of your child consuming, they are eventually going to consume. Children are resourceful, and clever, and have access to the internet now --at home and at school-- and have friends and cell phones and Netflix and Hulu. If they really want something, they will find a way to consume it.
And if you regularly talk to them about what they're consuming and misconceptions and the like, and don't keep things from them, they'll probably be willing to keep talking about what they're up to. No guarantees, but give children --especially teenagers-- a little more credit, and actually try and respect their opinion on things.
( Footnote from within trigger-cut text )
5: And if you are a person who can reclaim said word.
(And if you do, can you leave a Highly Dramatic comment explaining why? That would be _awesome_. I've never had someone publicly flouce away before, just flame-wars and trolls and things that lead to me holding grudges for two years even after I've kinda-sorta gotten an apology and I think I should move forward on that shouldn't I oh hm.)
I emphatically dislike censorship.
There's a Mark Twain quote that runs something like "censorship is telling a grown man he can't have a steak because a baby can't chew it" which more or less sums up the entirety of my feelings on the matter. I don't like censorship, because I don't like the idea that *you* get to pick what media *I* want to engage in, and I certainly don't like censorship because children age at different rates and become adults at different rates, and I don't think you can have a blanket statement of "all children are too young for this thing right now, so none of them can even have the choice to access it.3"
In general, I would like the world to trust people --and that includes the under-eighteen sorts of people as well-- to be able to tell whether or not they would be interested in consuming some sort of media. Sometimes they will accidentally stumble across things they find uninteresting or horrifying (or too "adult", regardless of age), and I trust them to take better care to not do that again. As a producer of media, I think the best thing I can do for this is make more controversial information into a choice --click the cut if you want to read porn, leave a private comment if you want to be on the sexfilter, this link is NSFW-- that intelligent people can choose to take or not as they feel appropriate.
All that being said, I'm censoring some of the <31WPorns I've gotten this year (Which will probably get put online somewhere in the next week or so).
Go ahead, call me a hypocrite: __________
( Reasons of why involves a trigger warning for noncon and dubcon )
I hate censorship. But it's my journal, and I'm not going to post things that make me uncomfortable.
(And on a related aside, I am sure as _hell_ not going to post anything in which the word "faggot" is used. If you're clearly making an effort for it to be a positive and reclaimed5 word, maybe, but when it's definitely a slur? That is hate language, and means we're done.)
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Not at all often --twice in the last year. Once with a comment left specifically saying "I'm screening this, please don't talk about that filter2 in a public space", and once because I don't like hearing "I told you so", and I see no reason why I should keep that sort of immaturity on my page. Helpful hint! If the general tone of the post seems to be tired or upset or weary or anything other than amused and jubilant, it probably means I'm not in a mood to put up with that shit right now.
2: Amusingly, the filter in question doesn't exist. But if it did, it would be strictly "don't talk about this filter in a public space."
3: And sure, some things should probably be put farther out of reach than others --I agree with the abstract concept of R rated films and the like, and I don't think any eight year old should be viewing hardcore pornography. But anything you're horrified of your child consuming, they are eventually going to consume. Children are resourceful, and clever, and have access to the internet now --at home and at school-- and have friends and cell phones and Netflix and Hulu. If they really want something, they will find a way to consume it.
And if you regularly talk to them about what they're consuming and misconceptions and the like, and don't keep things from them, they'll probably be willing to keep talking about what they're up to. No guarantees, but give children --especially teenagers-- a little more credit, and actually try and respect their opinion on things.
( Footnote from within trigger-cut text )
5: And if you are a person who can reclaim said word.