Imagine only believing censorship of fiction is bad when people are censoring things you personally like and agree with.
Anti censorship / freedom of speech advocates usually are concerned specifically with types of speech that frequently face censorship. People are for freedom of speech and against censorship from all sides of the political spectrum
I’m going to call these first amendment test cases. (I know I’m us centric but the fact of the matter is that different countries have different laws regarding protected speech)
First amendment test cases:
Hate speech
Defamation
Obscenity
Incitement to violence
Misinformation and disinformation
Intellectual property violations
Cyberbullying and harassment
Privacy violations
Blasphemy and religious offense
Let’s reorganize
The first category of speech is speech that is harmful because of the hurt and possible violence it does to people
Hate speech
Misinformation and disinformation
Cyberbullying and harassment
Privacy violations
Defamation
The second category of speech is speech that is censored for moral reasons or to protect wealth, often in the eye of the dominant forces in society against minorities. Yeah I put Defamation in both categories. The topics intersect.
Obscenity
Blasphemy and religious offense
Intellectual property violations
Defamation
In fandom, the two topics of interest are intellectual property and obscenity.
The thing about censorship is that you HAVE to argue for examples of the most extreme nature in order to protect the speech of less extreme types. In order to protect of porn of fictional adults you have to protect porn of fictional children. Otherwise what happens in Australia happens, where people start banning all hentai on the basis that you can’t really tell if an adult is childish or a child is drawn with grown up features.
If your argument holds, it cannot hold for one and not the other unless you want a board of old white guys deciding each and every case based on their values.
Hence why drawings of children making ahegao faces is of particular interest to people who argue against censorship
The thing about censorship is that you HAVE to argue for examples of the most extreme nature in order to protect the speech of less extreme types. In order to protect of porn of fictional adults you have to protect porn of fictional children.
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