Ana Valens / Anastasia Catherine Wythe / Phil Wythe / Philip Stephen Wythe / @SpaceDoctorPhD / @acvalens / @ac_valens - MtF transtrender extraordinaire, formerly a freelance "journalist" for The Daily Dot; but now works for Kotaku, SJW, professional liar and social rouser, CatParty's favorite blogger

Fatpacks said:
Which is why all we can hope for when the censors inevitably win is that the lolicons get fucked before we do.
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Maybe a for few seconds.. Like all other such cases throughout history. hell, as seen right here.. a whole new set of unimaginables and intolerables to be REEEEEEE'd at and justified censoring.. Can't even finish the screeching about that last "line" before defending the next one.

The entire antiquated and dangerous legal concept of obscenity needs to be done away with. It has no legitimate basis in constitutional law or understanding of rights. It was a complete court invention to get around and ignore basic rights and freedoms without actually having to change anything.

Community standards in the internet age, "i'll know it when i see it" criteria and "it makes me feel icky/angry" are no sane exception to free speech. Their is no justification. We already have exceptions for serious imminent danger/threat and other limited exceptional exceptions. There is no safely or crime fighting element, it is simply what some judge finds icky enough. It's not just sex related stuff either. It's been used to suppress political speech and art before as well.
 
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pikachudidnothingwrong said:
The entire antiquated and dangerous legal concept of obscenity needs to be done away with. It has no legitimate basis in constitutional law or understanding of rights. It was a complete court invention to get around and ignore basic rights and freedoms without actually having to change anything.
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There has to be a line. The problem is the people who move the line forward or backwards depending on how they feel. There's no common ground.
 
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whatsupwthat said:
The rat has now slid in the DMs of an actual woman, and got called out for it immediately. Maybe don't talk about putting them in rape camps and they'll actually be amicable towards you, Phil.
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I'm so proud of her. Phil tried to respond so weak wristledly to get people to pity him for being good and reaching out and trying to put differences aside, but it's hard to pull that off outside of the transgender community when the person flatly reminds everyone what you did. Oh well!
 
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has even a cursory understanding of the biggest pieces of 1A legislation from the past two decades.
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The first amendment is ultimately interpreted by judicial precedent, not legislation.
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the reason that free speech protections applied to obscene content
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Obscene content is, by definition, not protected speech. The Miller standard was established in 1973.
Buzz Killington said:
There has to be a line. The problem is the people who move the line forward or backwards depending on how they feel. There's no common ground.
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At least obscenity charges are usually only in the most extreme cases. When you think hard about the Miller test as written, depending on your interpretation, you could consider nothing or everything obscene. You would think an easy loophole would be to just say, "I created this as a political statement against obscenity," and it shouldn't be considered obscene under the Miller test because it has "political value." But, of course, we know it doesn't work like that in practice when we look at judicial precedent. YOU don't get to decide whether your work has value, some other bozos gets to decide.

The miller standard is retarded and should just be thrown out, imo. Child porn is already illegal, even if it is not obscene, and movies like Cuties are actually not remotely close to fulfilling the Miller test, so it's not even good for that either. Judicial precedent says that the Miller test only applies to pornography. That opinion was upheld by a lower court in the case brought against Netflix.

To restrict speech, the government needs a "compelling reason." The courts do not consider violence alone to be obscene, nor did they consider it a "compelling reason" to restrict the sale of video games to minors, which SCOTUS ruled in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association. However, when it comes to sexual content, the government is considered to have a compelling reason to protect children from exposure, but it's less clear what, exactly, the threshold is and how it can be enforced.

You're exactly right though. Aside from the legal arguments, people will be for or against the same thing depending on how they feel. Visa/Mastercard want to ban depictions or rape/incest, but will they demand stores stop selling A Song of Ice and Fire? Fuck no. Stephen King's "It" literally has a child orgy, but you know they won't ban that either. Some people naively thought it would begin and end at porn, but now that we see games like Mouthwashing and Fear and Hunger being targeted, we can see they really just have contempt for certain types of media and the people who consume/create it.
 
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Kotaku (Ana Valens): How VTubers Are Leading The Backlash Against Adult Game Censorship (archive) (ghost) (mega) (wayback)
https://kotaku.com/opinion/commentary (archive)
Game devs, queer artists, and adult illustrators are some of the most broadly recognized creative figures sounding the alarm against payment processor censorship. But there’s another group of creators taking on MasterCard and Visa: VTubers. More specifically, VTubers who develop adult content. Called AVTubers, or “lewdtubers,” this group has mobilized fans to spread the word, using their platforms to identify a larger pattern of online censorship targeting NSFW artists everywhere, from Steam to Fansly.

Adult voice artist and lewdtuber Lucky Cat Kira drew attention to online censorship in an eye-catching way. On Twitter, she shared a video of her VTuber model nude, privates covered with Twitter labels for content blocked due to the U.K.’s Online Safety Act. Behind her are various screengrabs related to contemporary online censorship issues, from the U.S.’s KOSA bill to a Bluesky post about consumers calling MasterCard.

“OOOOOO you wanna call the payment processors who took this away from you,” Kira tweeted, “you wanna call them so badly OOOOOOOO.” In a reply, she shared phone numbers to call Stripe, MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal, as well as an infographic posted by this reporter.

Speaking with Kotaku, Kira described the MasterCard/Visa anti-censorship push as “the largest group movement” she’s seen since public backlash against OnlyFans’ NSFW ban attempt.
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Maybe this is his second article at Kotaku? You can't click on his name to get a dedicated page for all of his stuff, while others on the site do have those pages.

https://x.com/podgekinn/status/1950237688788898195 (archive) (ghost)
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net/post/3lvzmupa5322i (archive)
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Vtubing just went from being something cool and queer to getting coopted
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When the hell was it either of those things? Vtubing was created when some people in Japan wanted to make money, and realized that there was a lot of overlap between the kind of fat neckbeards who goon to anime waifus and the ones who spend all day watching streamers play video games.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye

Post in thread 'Payment Processor Censorship (Visa / Mastercard / Stripe / PayPal etc)'

https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net (archive)
https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net/post/3lw7hzgngs22t (archive)
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Many "lesbians" affected (see the main feed).

The Gamer (Rhiannon Bevan): Game Devs Say That Itch's Adult Content Ban Is Targeting Lesbian Games, Even If They're Safe For Work (archive)
In an expansive report from Trans News Network, numerous indie devs say that their work has been restricted or removed from Itch as part of the ban on adult content. They say that this is even the case with games that don't...
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Mistakes were made. Namely believing The Gamer, the tranny of gayming noose sites.

https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net (archive)
https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net/post/3lwfw5kfe7s2q (archive)
https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net/post/3lwf7kiiick2e (archive)
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The European Conservative: “There is no censorship here in Germany,” Federal Government Says (archive)
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These people are obsessed with calling everything they like queer and claiming they were doing queer first before the straights found out about it and straighted it up all with fascism.
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Revisionism at its finest. And when you ask them who Kizuna AI was, they can't even bother to Google it up and pretend to know about her. These freaks use vtuber models to hide their hideous faces from the rest of the world, because they all look like some even more deformed variant of Cosmo Wright. They don't like what vtubing is, or what it represents, but only that it can potentially make them money.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye

Post in thread 'Payment Processor Censorship (Visa / Mastercard / Stripe / PayPal etc)'

https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net (archive)
https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net/post/3lw7hzgngs22t (archive)
itch-sfw-yuri.webp

Many "lesbians" affected (see the main feed).

The Gamer (Rhiannon Bevan): Game Devs Say That Itch's Adult Content Ban Is Targeting Lesbian Games, Even If They're Safe For Work (archive)
In an expansive report from Trans News Network, numerous indie devs say that their work has been restricted or removed from Itch as part of the ban on adult content. They say that this is even the case with games that don't...
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Mistakes were made. Namely believing The Gamer, the tranny of gayming noose sites.

https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net (archive)
https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net/post/3lwfw5kfe7s2q (archive)
https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net/post/3lwf7kiiick2e (archive)
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How many of the devs who contributed to the "Toxic Yuri Games Jam," do you guys suppose are actual female people with uteruses? I'd be shocked if there were even one, frankly.
 
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