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...

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[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

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. Heh. My thoughts exactly. Personally, if I have kids, I fully intend to refer to cauliflower as "the c word". I hate cauliflower, and I intend to make it my mission to eradicate both the vegetable and the word from their world.