Censorshit

[beer_good_foamy]

Heads up for anyone who still submits their stories to fanfiction.net, as I do for some reason. Apparently, they've decided that most of their readers are 12 years or under (something I've suspected for a long time, but anyway) and introduced a naughty-words filter on all reviews and forum posts, and also fics rated K+ or lower. So those of you who consider yourselves adults might want to up the rating of your stories if they contain child-brain-shattering words like "kung fu", "butt", "knob" or "bastard", or they'll be full of asterisks.

I guess their slogan "unleash your imagination" just got even more hypocritical.

Censorship: Because if you take out the naughty words on the internet, the activities they describe will disappear in the real world as if by magic.

Oh well. There's always Fanlib... :-/

ETA: they backed down on the editing-fics-thing after a lot of angry feedback. You still need to disable a filter to be able to read/post naughty words in forums and reviews, though, so...

Comments

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

KUNG FU???

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

FF.net iced me years ago when I posted an R rated story, with all the proper labels and warnings... interestingly enough, it was a lesbian story and in the same section were incest fics... so why the hell was I the one that got iced? I lost all my stories, except one which a friend of mine so nicely saved.

Granted they were of a fandom I no longer participate in, but still. FF.net has eternally been of the sucky.

[shapinglight]

Oh well. There's always Fanlib... :-/

:Snerk:

I can already see a bunch of bored fans looking for ever more ingenious ways to get round this. It could catch on - like computer chess or something.

[shinodabear.livejournal.com]

Kung fu. *snerk*

Ah, ff.net. How I wonder why I ever left you . . .

[faith-chaos.livejournal.com]

Huh.

This makes me sad, actually.

[lauratd.livejournal.com]

Censorship smensorhip, the real tragedy here is that I now have the song "Kung-Fu Fighting" going through my head. Thanks a whole K*ng- f* lot!

It is good to know that the youth of America is kept safe from cuss-words and naked boobies, which might interfere with their healthy enjoyment of watching people shoot each other, because that's good clean fun for the whole family.

On a lighter note , it reminds me of when one of my second graders told me the " s h word" was in the book I'd assigned their reading group. Embarrassed and worried, I asked her to show me the page. Turns out she called "shut-up" the "s h word" because we are not allowed to say that at our school. Often the hardest part of my job is not busting out laughing at the wrong moment.

[lorelei-frolick.livejournal.com]

"kung fu" is a dirty word? Is it the violence thing they object to, or am I just really naive?

And what if you want to tell a story about doorknobs?

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

You gotta be kidding me.