January 28, 2004 :: Wednesday
Some more thoughts on this place, fandom_scruples...
The thing I found really remarkable was not all the idiotic Copa blather, but how quickly the LJ went from this:
[We're not attempting to harass anyone....We never once said this was a campaign to get people to stop writing this type of fic. It isn't....Why is it such a horrible idea to get people to act responsibly? We are asking those listed below to please lock down their fic. Nothing else. We aren't asking them to stop writing, or reading.]to this:
[We have compiled evidence against several websites who have knowingly violated this law.....There are no excuses. We have come to a decision that we will give websites two weeks to comply with COPA or we will report them to a federal agency that we have sought advice from.]in twelve days. So much for not harassing anyone.
While I may not have agreed with their original idea and the "gold list" and the "black list", they had a right to speak their opinion and to campaign to get their views aired, just as I do.
But now it's turned into a witch hunt, reporting people as criminals, hoping to get someone arrested.
Is it just the mob mentality of any community of people that breeds these sort of occurences? It happens with some regularity in fandom, in varying degrees, little ones like someone asks for warnings or spoiler notes on stories and a vicious fight ensues, flames, insults, people leaving in a huff, starting rival lists to big ones like this fandom_scruples thing.
"Instead I kissed him when he would have let me go. I saw it in his eyes, he would have let me go. He expected nothing, asked for nothing, just cried, noiselessly at first, then wildly, his heart breaking on the hardness of my stubborn faith."
Speak to me
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