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Wish it had worked out lol


TomColetti
@TomColetti

so a while back Dragoneer once used my art of bubsy punching nazis as a both-sides deflection from why they were allowing pro-nazi imagery on FurAffinity. Today FA just removed that painting because apparently showing nazis getting punched is against their ToS now. I was on the fence about whether i'd post there again in case twitter went under but after this dogshit display of absolute cowardice from them in the face of such a basic inalienable concept as "nazis are bad," then they can eat shit


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Wait, that's the bobcat one right? Didn't that violate rule:

"2.12 Content Involving Real Hate Groups or Terrorist Organizations Content which displays imagery, language, or rhetoric associated with real world hate groups (e.g. Nazism, ISIS, KKK), terrorists, mass murderers, or serial killers is not allowed whether that content promotes, denounces, or incidentally features these groups and their symbols."

There's a long history as to why this was put into place, but basically under the old rule set people were using porn to get around their old ban on promoting nazism. So they decided just to make a line in the sand, and ANYTHING that has nazi/confederate nonsense/kkk symbolism in place gets yeeted, wether promoting or denouncing. That way they wouldn't have to constantly deal with appeals from nazis claiming their stuff didn't violate the aup for xyz.

https://www.furaffinity.net/aup

While I agree, I understand why they do it. FA uses a volunteer moderation staff from all around the world. If you have to look at something, and decide how nuanced it is every time, it bogs down the process. More so if you're not super familiar with the hate group stuff that's specific to the USA. It's easier to just have a blanket ban. If I recall, back when they put this rule in place, they were just constantly being smashed with support tickets by nazi fucks disputing their content being taken down.

And over all, it's like rule "3.3 Indecent Photography", if this wasn't in place, people would just constantly be trying to worm their way around it. Having a clear cut rule helps with moderation and gives them something to point to when things are removed.

Corporations who are only after money anyway can choose to wield that phrase however they wish. But it is entirely possible to separate a depiction of fascism from an endorsement of one. You just have to be willing to dig your heels into the sand and not cave to fascist excuses.

This is less of a "zero tolerance" rule and more of a "I don't want to deal with this topic" rule. Banning things purely on whether or not you are comfortable with it is a HORRIBLE rule, and is exactly why Dragoneer is tolerant toward zoophiles

amazing how Dragoneer's defenders are going on about how it's impossible to write a rule that bans Nazi propaganda but allows Bubsy to punch out Nazis even if they have a swastika armband

and by amazing i mean "of fucking COURSE they are"

People used to use twitter as The Big Furry Site if they didn't like FA. Now that twitter is strapped with a detonator I'm seeing Cohost and Itaku.ee be the most popular replacements. Cohost just has some short-term technical functions to get over, but Itaku.ee I fear in the long term because it has similarly bad takes on bigotry, AND fetish content.