theres no “they’re wrong but they dont deserve this”
if theres death threats or doxxing involved, stupid little internet opinions are irrelevant
doesnt matter where they stand, if its insipid internet discourse then it stays on the internet. it should not affect your real life.
cyberbullying affects real life, doxxing affects real life, spreading csem affects real life. if closing the computer or deleting your account cant get rid of it, it shouldnt happen.
deleting an account doesnt get rid of the trauma of being harrassed; of having your or your families name, address, school, phone number, social security number, voters registration number, ect leaked; of having csem or nonconsensual images spread.
its not “they’re wrong but they dont deserve this.” its just “they dont deserve this.”
them being wrong, you disagreeing, is now completely irrelevant.
Also on a side note; y'all really hate fictional ships so much y'all gotta threaten to spread around real csem? There’s so many more morally humane things you could’ve done than do this. Like for example; not even talking to mafu. Acting like mafu exists and moving on with your life, but you just willingly chose one of the worst possible things to do. You talk big on how you want to protect children from the “big scary mean proshippers” but you’re the ones putting them in harm’s way to begin with. The anti movement is therefore not about making kids safe (hell it never was). It’s about scaring and oppressing a group of people they find weird (like the rest of this fucked up society/world). Antis are all sick fucks if they think anyone deserves this because they like 2(or more) fictional characters together as a ship.
What we commonly like to say: “what we like in fiction does not affect our in real life morals.” And hell yeah it’s correct. Antis just showed that. They’re really over here spewing this purity culture BS about fiction while committing real life heinous acts to anyone who disagrees with them.
to be 100% clear: OTW volunteers are getting CSAM in their emails. as a protest against AO3’s content. I repeat: someone is sending actual literal child pornography to actual literal human people in order to protest fanfic they think is inappropriate.
To the people in the notes saying “don’t reduce this to antis vs proship fandom drama!” You must be out of the loop because antis sending csem, suicide bait, extreme gore and other disturbing material is 100% a thing that has been happening for a while now, especially on twt. Haven’t yall seen the tiktok csa survivor who got antis sending them their own csa pics? Really?
So like, yeah we don’t have names, and while this could also be some shitbag from 4chan, this could also very possibly be the antis doing because, again, they’ve done it already¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Since May 3rd, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) — the nonprofit behind AO3, Fanlore, and other projects — has been dealing with malicious attacks aimed at the organization and its volunteers. We wanted to share with you some of what’s been happening, as well as what we’re doing to contain it, and how it may affect our response times to your inquiries and our workload in general. Above all, we need to ask for your patience, because these are complicated times for all of us at the OTW.
An unknown attacker has been sending our volunteers threatening emails with illegal child sexual abuse material (CSAM), which has been reported to several law enforcement authorities.
My personal thoughts, very briefly: I’m not going to name names, but is it really a huge mystery which kind of people might be behind this? I think not.
