HarpiaBarbatus

Let me preface this by saying I fully believe everyone is born with the natural right to say whatever the hell they want and share their opinions, however some things do not need to be said/spread around.

I think its very important for everyone to be able to express themselves freely without fear of being silenced, but there are just some topics that don't deserve that platform. Rape, zoophillia, incest, pedophilia, racism, homophobia, etc., are a few things that come to mind. It is OKAY to talk about these things in an educational manner, and they should be to help spread awareness. They should not be shown in a positive light whatsoever. I understand a lot of people, especially authors of fanfiction, proshippers, and right-wingers are against censorship because they're scared of being silenced, but I think them being okay with creating a safespace for awful people to spread hate and disgusting content says a lot about them. This is one of my main problems with pro/darkshippers specifically.

Another issue I see brought up, "if we let them censor A, they'll want to censor B!" This is the only big counter I can see to my argument unless someone has another. I think what is decided to be censored should be a general consensus, for example 90% of the population should move to censor something for it to happen. I can't really explain myself properly just yet, though I'll probably make a more in depth post debating this when I do some deep-dive research.

Ran out of things on my mind rn ...

Additional Notes : I don't know everything or have sources to defend any of my points, just using my morals! Baby leftist here 🔺️ also if anyone knows more than I do about the issue with AO3 censoring Palestinian works let me know! I also heard something about them letting blatant racism slide? I might become anti AO3, they are not immune to my judgement.

EVERYONE GET POLITICAL NOW!!!