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talktooloose in dry_ice

Readings on the Purge

May 30, 2007 18:10

Action central, as far as I can see.

Why fic and slash matter and what you can do

Words on the deletion of pornish_pixies, an HP fancomm with a no-censorship policy

resources: insight & info, resources: links

Comments 6

ranilos May 30 2007, 22:30:50 UTC

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talktooloose May 31 2007, 01:59:03 UTC

Thanks. I got home 3 hours ago and since then 6,000 more have signed up for a total over 14,000. Rawk.

sendthewolves May 31 2007, 01:35:12 UTC

This purge thing is fucking ridiculous! I read yesterday that it started with deleting comms and journals that encourage pedophilia and incest, so we should be pretty safe.

talktooloose May 31 2007, 01:58:21 UTC

Thou art misinformed. The purge was not of comms and journals that encourage pedophilia, it was of any that include interests whose words were deemed treacherous by a group of zealots. For instance, people who are survivors of incest and have "incest" as an interest were deleted. A Spanish comm that was discussing Nabakov's Lolita was wiped out because "Lolita" is a trigger word for these knee-jerk jerks who have never read the book ( ... )

sendthewolves May 31 2007, 03:24:31 UTC

*Has now read much more about this*
Oh dear god, this is insane! They deleted incest survivors?! What the fuck is wrong with people! I'm not going to talk anymore now, I'm not eloquent when I'm angry but I agree that we need to speak out against this.

fastforwardlife May 31 2007, 04:01:18 UTC

Thank you for posting these links. I passed on what I heard through rougedemonhunte to other fandoms I'm in, and will do the same with these.