also, to be clear: I ENJOY fictional violence. it's cathartic! and based on how popular violent fiction is, I'd wager that many others feel the same but violence in real life makes me deeply uncomfortable

because that's not how our brains work and the kink isn't what makes it happen in real life

do you know how much violent media I consume? but the idea of even accidentally hurting an insect in real life gives me major anxiety fictional noncon porn makes me uncomfortable, but do I think it will turn people into actual rapists? absolutely not,

something that seems to be lost on many is that yes, fiction can influence you. but for most people that means it can influence your political views or beliefs, specifically when it's trying to covertly tell you something about the real world what it CAN'T do is turn you into a violent person

FUCK CENSORSHIP, FREE ARTISTS

I for one welcome the rapture If it takes all the evangelicals away, the rest of us can get to work actually fixing society & saving the planet instead of just trying to stop the evangelicals from killing our marginalized friends

It really is asinine to lump illustrations in with the rest of the things listed on the ToS. Art is fiction and intellectual property cannot issue legal consent. No one trusts the auto labeler to figure out which faces or bodies "look more consenting" based on appearance alone. Thats messed up.

what fucks me up about the Bluesky TOS update is fucking every adult creator i know wants MORE labels and filter options. we WANT more granular control over the labels and spoilers we can put on our work so people who want to curate their timeline to avoid us CAN DO SO

Sorry! If you want people to use these tools, you have to foster an environment where they feel safe to do so!

if youre mad cuz you see a nsfw artist not tagging/labeling their shit? then i hope youre also getting mad at your friends who stalk creators and slide in people's DMs to "warn" them that someone draws [insert subject matter you think is icky] cuz their behavior is contributing to the problem

and if you comply to their policing and fear-mongering, it only empowers their voice and continues to perpetuate harm.

This is absolutely BRILLIANT They didn't listen to our feedback, now we need to ESCALATE Bsky is at 3.4⭐ - let's see how quick we can tank that! Don't know what to write? Copy/paste mine or use it as a starting point! #SaveSpeech #BskyCensorship

HOW TO LET BSKY KNOW THEIR POLICY CHANGES HARM ARTISTS: A GUIDE FOR MOBILE USERS! 🧵 Sending feedback is SUPER easy, and takes just a few clicks! 1. Open the left tab menu, and click that "feedback" button 2. Put your concern in the box. I'll copy paste a script to use! (CONT.)

This just shows how censoring fictional "noncon" is stupid. I, the artist, just decided that the friends are consenting to seeing this, and it was actually just a roleplay all along. No damage done, because they are not real people, I invented them and I can tell what they are feeling or not. PERIOD

"OH, but it can me interpreted the other way around." IT DOESN'T MATTER because only I can tell the truth about my fictional characters' feelings. And I can just draw the aftermath, having fun and seeing the roleplay pictures together. I control their truth. If you are offended, it is not my fault.

Whenever sites come up with new rules like this I thing about how if you were a creator who was making something every bit on the level with a hugely popular and acclaimed series, would you be allowed to share it? Like, if you were sitting on the next Game of Thrones, you couldn’t share that here.

There are genuinely few matters that a company cares about more than seeing their public facing app store fronts reviews tanking. I'd highly recommend leaving one or editing yours as well.

I just think that people should know what they're in for if they sign up

We gotta come up with a word to describe people that are, for no real reason, against fantasy made up words I'd rather have something unique like L'Cie than something generic like "The Cursed"

NSFW creators aren’t going anywhere! For those who don’t want to see nsfw, censorship makes it much harder to creators who need to earn a living to flag and tag appropriately to make sure they reach the right audience! That’s how we end up with unsustainable shit like “grape” ! #zyaps

USA has never been a "Christian form of government". Constitution prohibits the establishment of a state religion and forbids religious tests for public office to protect freedom of conscience, prevent religious conflict, and ensure that government treats people equally. Fact check me on this.

For all this talk about if fictional porn will turn you into a criminal where is the representation of my fellow “watched a kid’s cartoon when they were 10 and developed a kink out of a completely sfw scene” people

A key historical note on the First Amendment that is missing from recent discussions. When U.S. founders wrote the First Amendment, they did so with the intent of preserving the right of the press (& people) to CRITICISM and the expression of OPINION, not merely the reporting of information. 👇

Ohhhh yes. Let me just…..

I read into the ban on "noncon art" and how the fuck can you prove something is non-consensual in fictional art? IT'S A DRAWING

Americans should start making complaints daily to the FCC asking that people like Brian killmeade, Jesse Watters etc be removed from the aur and Fox loses its licence. Mention Killmeades raising putting Homeless to death and Watters calling on Civil War against the left

I left a 1 star review on the app store explaining how disappointed i was with their updated adult content policy. I highly recommend doing so yourself too!

And I will, too.

App reviews of 1 star over mass censorship issues feels like a very proportional response. The dream of these people is to make a “sellable” product out of Bluesky, and if you want to reduce that potential value, mass app reviews with filled out critical comments is the way to go.

You have to keep going.

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Are people falling for this? Ive never seen a funeral/memorial like this is my life. A live televised funeral extravaganza in a packed arena, for a podcaster. Are people just assuming this means he was the most important person ever?

Remember to resist AV laws and such. Otherwise the Bsky ToS will be the least of our problems. We can protest it all.

Acting like one site the answer is super short sighted and government oversight will stop your audience even if your hosting in a place outside them laws. Your best option any how is your own site and use sites like this to direct others to your work always has been.

No platform is an option if the rules are on a law level and if you got any kind of reach you should be helping to highlight them issues as it will effect way more then just art.

Everyone with issues with the terms of service changes I get the frustration but you need to think bigger, the uk has age gate all NSFW posts. Australia is doing even stricter rules and the EU is voting on similar ones. You need to help highlight the larger issue and get people to vote on them.

I know things can feel discouraging now. But there's no point in being discouraged. It gets us nowhere. Resist with optimism and confidence. We will fight for our democracy, and we will win.

Maybe I do deserve to just rot away alone, given I don't really contribute much to society at all. At least I try to be nice to my friends.

Someone who isn't some weird Catholic Puritan from the 18th century, please make a payment processor that respects your basic human freedoms.

> asks for feedback > makes the changes significantly worse. cool, cool, cool, cool. once again, i'd love if puritans would stop trying to police what i consume as a grown-ass adult.

Anyway... Please keep making and sharing your lewd art. ❤️ #art #ocs #bskycensorship

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“While it’s good to see that @proton.me is reconsidering account suspensions, journalists are among the users who need these and similar tools most,” @mshelton.bsky.social, Freedom of the Press Foundation's deputy director of digital security, told @theintercept.com.

I mean I don’t see a way out either, but that doesn’t mean that one isn’t in the works somehow or will show itself eventually! And just preemptively accepting everything just plays into what they want. It’s hard to realistically have hope but if you don’t then there’s no point in being alive!

It really feels like I'm yelling into the void when I openly talk about whatever here sometimes that isn't a respond to something else. But, hey, I do it anyway. It lets the noise out.

Prove Me Wrong is a logical fallacy. It is being used to rip our nation apart, to make us afraid and unhealthy. If someone claims something to be true, it is up to them to provide evidence in support of the claim. Asking you to prove someone wrong is aggressive and disgusting.

Imagine if we cared about protecting the right to healthcare, a living wage, housing and education the same way we protect the right to bear arms? If we made it easier to access the things necessary to survive and thrive and harder to access weapons that disable and kill?

You already know this, but it was never about protecting the children. The same can be said about guns, except it's always been lacking for them.

I guess my point is stay alert and stay angry, but don’t start panicking quite yet. The point of fascism is to beat you into submission via overwhelming you and making you afraid. It’s literally never able to pan out bc fascists NEVER plan long term bc everything they stand for is reactionary.

Like ok realistically what are they gonna do to fix it? How are they gonna properly moderate? What kind of infrastructure are they planning on? What legal binding rules standings do they have if the rules are so arbitrary and purposefully vague? They don’t plan on any of this lmao. That’s the point