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Hi, I saw your post about ao3 so I figured that you may know more about this than I do. I'm a bit conflicted about continuing to use and support it, cause I keep seeing people say that the creators of it are pedos? And that we shouldn't support them, but I haven't been able to find any evidence for this. So I just wanted to know if you have any ideas about this because I don't. Thank you.
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The people calling the creators of AO3 pedos are basically toddlers stomping their feet because the siterunners arenât engaging in censorship at their demand. AO3 hosts content that depicts pedophilic relationships, and the only time they step in is if a work hasnât been tagged with warnings properly.
The toddlers are cranky about this because they donât think they should be responsible for their own internet experience, and they think they ought to be allowed to dictate what people can and cannot read/write. So they make attacks against the PEOPLE who run AO3 because they know itâs much harder to disprove those sorts of accusations than it is to do any real work on their own internet experience.
Hereâs the thing: these people who donât like that AO3 doesnât censor content? They could run their own archive! AO3âs parent organization, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), has made the code that AO3 is based on completely available to the public!! Thatâs the tagging system, the site skins, everything. But the angry anti toddlers donât want to have to spend money and work to build their own sandbox, they want to be the tyrant in OTWâs, stomping around destroying peopleâs sand castles.
So essentially these are purity police who think that anyone who creates or consumes content that is problematic are instantly monsters. This is a failure of critical thinking. Real adults are able to tell the difference between fiction and reality, and can enjoy something fictional without enacting it in reality.
Now if youâre thinking âwell idk why AO3 wouldnât want to ban pedophilic worksâ let me put this little thought exercise down for you: Say AO3 does make said content a bannable offense. Whatâs to prevent antis from abusing the reporting system to go on personally motivated crusades against specific authors, or specific tropes? Whatâs to prevent homophobic fans (and I guarantee they exist) from using that reporting system to brigade against all slash fic?
The Archive and the OTW would either have to create a bot that would probably not work very well to evaluate these reports, or they would have to find scads of volunteers who would be willing and able to slog through every report sent to the system.
Iâm not very good at coming to conclusions but essentially this boils down to âdonât like, donât readâ (aka MIND YOUR BUSINESS) and âthe back button exists for a reason, as well as every warning the archive allows authors to use.â If you have another question and you donât mind the way I answered this one, please feel free to ask!
I am not one of the founders of AO3, but I have been a volunteer with the site since 2010, so I feel like I can speak to why I, personally, have supported the project since before its beginning and why Iâve given a decade of my life, thousands of hours of time I could have spent doing other things, and hundreds of my own dollars over the years, to help keep it running. Â
It isnât because I am âa pedoâ, or because I like reading/writing extreme underage content. Itâs because I feel very strongly that there needs to be a space for fandom that isnât owned by a corporation, that isnât beholden to advertisers, that doesnât risk disappearing overnight, and that allows any fannish content that is legal.  Itâs because I have seen, after participating in fandom for 20+ years, what happens every time a fandom platform tries to ban certain content.  Â
All the content on AO3 is legal to produce and access under US law (other countries may vary, but the Archive follows US law since thatâs where itâs based, and so thatâs what Iâll be referring to.) Our Terms of Service specify that anything actually illegal (pornographic photos of real children, for instance) is not permitted. If you are a US resident and you dislike that written, fictional content about underage characters in sexual situations is legal where you live, please take it up with your government representatives, rather than with AO3. Â
I personally find some of the content on AO3 disgusting. Thatâs fine! Nobody is required to like all of the content on the site. But in using the site, even as a guest, you (general you) agreed to the siteâs Terms of Service which includes the key line: âYou understand that using the Archive may expose you to material that is offensive, triggering, erroneous, sexually explicit, indecent, blasphemous, objectionable, grammatically incorrect, or badly spelled.â
This is probably the most-quoted line in the TOS (at least in my line of work), and for good reason. In going on the site, you are agreeing that you might see things you donât like. You are agreeing that there is content that is fully permitted to exist on the site, which nevertheless might not be suitable or enjoyable for you, or might even be actively harmful for you to read. You are taking that responsibility into your own hands - to say that if you come across something, you will look at the warnings, look at the tags, and decide whether you want to read any further or not, and if you make a mistake, you will backbutton away and learn better for next time.
AO3 provides tools to help you control what you see or donât see. You can choose to exclude tags through the filters - the entire Underage warning tag, for instance, or specific pairings or additional tags. You can choose to receive an adult content warning any time you access a work that isnât rated G or T. And if people donât use the required warning tags appropriately (such as including explicit sex in a work rated G, or underage sexual content in a work not marked with Underage or Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings), you can report them to our Abuse team, who will investigate and can either require the tags to be changed or remove the work. Â
Now, let me go back again to what happens when a site used by fans imposes content moderation (particularly new types of content moderation that werenât previously in place). One or both of the following things happen:
1. People wake up one morning to find that their work, which they previously believed followed the rules of the site, no longer does, or has been lumped in with other types of forbidden work, and has been deleted without warning.Â
2. Work that includes said inappropriate content still exists on the site, but is not warned for or tries to hide what it actually is, in order to avoid being removed. People therefore stumble across it without warning, and have no way to choose to avoid it.
You donât need to take my word for it, although Iâve watched it happen numerous times (Livejournal, Fanfiction.net, DeviantArt, Tumblr, just to name a few.) You can peruse the Fanlore list of purges and read more from there. But the short version is that, when sites start to impose rules about explicit content, underage content, RPF, or whatever theyâve decided is bad and wrong on that particular day, whole swaths of work get wiped out, including work that you or I might think had artistic merit, wasnât âgrossâ, or whose only violation was being LGBT+ in nature (while comparable F/M works were left alone). This is not a wild speculation about what could happen - this is based on very real first-hand experience on the part of the people who founded AO3 and its early users. They (and I) decided that it was worth protecting even work we found disgusting, in order to ensure that work we loved would stay safe. That was the bargain that the site was made under, and that we continue to uphold today.Â
For instance, although I said above that I donât like reading extreme underage, I have both read and written works that were tagged with the Underage warning. Works that feature older teenagers having sex, for instance, or that address things like child abuse or assault as part of the story. I looked at the tags on the works, made my own informed decision about whether I wanted to read further, and if I decided that I chose wrongly, Iâve backbuttoned out of the work and moved on with my life. But in some cases, Iâve found the works were very tasteful, artistic, moving, sad, heartwarming, or whatever other terms you might use to say âthis work was good and Iâm glad it exists and was allowed to be posted here.â Â
You might not agree with this position. You donât have to! Maybe you think all underage work is equally vile and you never want to read it - thatâs your right! And you certainly donât have to donate to help support the site if you donât want to - nobody does. But what you do agree in using the site is that if you see something you donât like, and it was properly warned for, you scroll past it. You recognize that it is allowed to be there. Thousands of people have worked hard for over a decade to create a site where people can feel safe posting, knowing that their work will not be taken down because the rules changed overnight, or because a thousand people reported their work for having the wrong pairing and it was easier to just delete it than deal with the torrent of reports, or because a specific moderator decided they didnât like it.    Â
My work on AO3 is one of the things Iâm proudest of. It is an important and valuable site. It isnât under an obligation to advertisers who might ask it to censor certain content. It isnât acting in order to make money or get sold off eventually to the highest bidder. It isnât selling peopleâs browsing history or personal data. And authors can feel confident posting there that their work isnât going to vanish overnight. If you think those things are worth supporting, you can certainly donate, but you donât have to. The site will always be free to use, and those who can afford it and wish to support it will do so, ensuring it continues to exist for those who canât or donât. Thatâs pretty amazing. Â
Every damn year it seems there is someone witch hunting ao3 for no goddamn reason. Seriously, look at wattpad they delete fics without warning, make money from other peopleâs hard work. One example is our very own fandomâs movie (đ¤˘) but they did make money from the books and movie. Another example is one of their writers who used to write larry fics had millions (probably billions of likes and views) on his fics. He won so many awards for his hard work, was even mentioned in many articles but they deleted his work and account without warning, just because people reported it. Now every other week people keep popping up and repost his fic without permission illegally on wattpad. Not only that, if you go to Pinterest, you will find wattpad has made almost 16 million followers on that social alone through stolen artwork and pics and gifs of fans like us.Â
How the fuck is it fair? How the fuck is that okay? Why the fuck is no one witch hunting that fucking corporation but is so ready to come for the one that is basically keeping us fans protected and for fucking free. If it was not for ao3 millions of fans would not have a place to go. If you have a problem with the content then donât fucking read it who is telling you to read those problematic shit anyways? I would also like to point out that sometimes these problematic shit help some people heal from their own scars, that they are too afraid to share with people. You have a choice here. Donât like it donât read it - what most of us do.Â
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