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PHM Characters as text posts: Pt. 6/?

even more phm + textposts with stratt (and grace)

Grace having a very Eridian time of his life.

I have now gotten 2 asks in the last 24 hours that want to know my opinion on the current accusations against AO3. The smart thing for me to do would be for me to ignore this, because it's not my business, and talking about it at all will paint a target on my back.

But if there's one thing I can't stand its disinformation and rumor being passed off as fact.

👉 What AO3 is being accused of vague "zionism" and specifically "censoring users who talk about Palestine." Some people have taken this to mean that works on AO3 that discuss Palestine have been removed. This is not true.

👉 What AO3 actually did: ask a volunteer in the official OTW volunteer chat not to use a specific pro-Palestine slogan in the server, because several Jewish volunteers were being made to feel uncomfortable and unwelcome by it.

👉 It was made clear that the volunteer was perfectly allowed to show their support of Palestine, in and out of the server. Alternatives were suggested, such as putting the flag in their username, etc.

👉 This volunteer refused to compromise, and continued to make other volunteers uncomfortable.

👉 In order to protect the mental well-being of their volunteers, the uncompromising volunteer was removed from the organization.

👉 As far as I am aware this is the only actual "censorship" which has taken place. This is exactly the same as someone being asked not to use language in the workplace that makes their fellow jewish workers uncomfortable.

👉 As far as I'm aware there has been no censorship of works posted to AO3. The only action that took place was a discussion of language to protect volunteers.

👉 If you genuinely feel that this action was wrong, and that this volunteer should have been allowed to continue using language that made their fellow volunteers uncomfortable, then yes, you absolutely should follow your moral compass and stop supporting AO3.

👉 However, please do not repeat untrue rumors or overblown versions of the situation out of context.

👉 Please be aware when you consider this situation that many of the people who are promoting and spreading these accusations are the same people who look for any excuse to tear down AO3 and remove the organization's support base.

Here’s the screenshots of what people were talking about (hopefully the link works)

Has this been done yet

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.