Something happened last night to a flister of mine. What happened was something I've encountered before. It was an issue of censorship in the worst fashion: A person decided just because they didn't like the genre of a given story that they would then flame and badger because they had been *forced* [yes of course, the 'forced' claim. Because my flister has the EvolLex majicks that can brainwash a person to read clex, mpreg and even cannibalize their own infant children] they had been *forced* to sit and read a story from bookend to bookend.
Half of this issue is personal responsibility and accountability, the other half is having people act like a bunch of fucking wankers. If you don’t like a genre, don’t read said genre. By reading something that was clearly, as plain as day labeled, then by reading it and having negative feelings following, you only illustrate YOUR idiocy for reading it. Then by commenting you’re essentially telling the WORLD what a stupid little fucking shit you are.
This isn’t an issue only of idiocy, but of censorship. This is what happens when stupid people get it in their minds that every and ALL things MUST fit into their narrow viewpoint of the world. Beyond that 2 inch radius, everything else is up for book burning at the nearest public library.
Fascism is what it is. Why don’t we all censor the internet? Why don’t we withdraw the FIRST FUCKING AMENDMENT TO THE GODDAMN U.S. CONSTITUTION because these idiots “don’t like it”? That’s a plan. Why don’t we whisper when our rights are violated? Why don’t we bend and kowtow to the wants of the idiot few?
If it was good enough for Nazi’s and Stalin then so be it. If that’s what America has come to today then so be it. If the internet is no longer the last bastion for free communication and speech, if we rescind our rights to privacy and offer up all journal entries and emails to be databased by the federal government then so be it.
If these small minded people can’t see where they are going with this then I suggest we petition for V-chips in their computers, activate the parental controls, only allow Neopets.com to appear on their screen [because nickelodeon can bee too raunchy at times and cartoon network is the work of the devil] because they OBVIOUSLY can’t look at a rating and at a warning and say to themselves *drool* Mubby I shouldn’t reed dis *drool*
Once they are locked away in happy Care Bears internet land with their pastel wallpapers and Rainbow Brite theme music then maybe the rest of us can read our fanfic, cuss, swear, drink, smoke, have sex [perhaps even outside of wedlock] and put the Bacchae to shame.
Absotively. All of my icons are free for the taking. My only condition is if they're credited to someone else, please continue to credit. Otherwise I probably made it myself, and couldn't care less. :P
Be my guest. And now for the obligatory disclaimer:
I'm nowhere near as entertaining in here as I am on wtf_inc. I don't update terribly often, and lately it seems to be stupid crap like the Big Red Button.
I'm not actually a wtf_inc member. I followed a link from Fandom Wank (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/) and happened upon your icon. ;)
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Date: 2006-05-16 06:10 pm (UTC)Half of this issue is personal responsibility and accountability, the other half is having people act like a bunch of fucking wankers. If you don’t like a genre, don’t read said genre. By reading something that was clearly, as plain as day labeled, then by reading it and having negative feelings following, you only illustrate YOUR idiocy for reading it. Then by commenting you’re essentially telling the WORLD what a stupid little fucking shit you are.
This isn’t an issue only of idiocy, but of censorship. This is what happens when stupid people get it in their minds that every and ALL things MUST fit into their narrow viewpoint of the world. Beyond that 2 inch radius, everything else is up for book burning at the nearest public library.
Fascism is what it is. Why don’t we all censor the internet? Why don’t we withdraw the FIRST FUCKING AMENDMENT TO THE GODDAMN U.S. CONSTITUTION because these idiots “don’t like it”? That’s a plan. Why don’t we whisper when our rights are violated? Why don’t we bend and kowtow to the wants of the idiot few?
If it was good enough for Nazi’s and Stalin then so be it. If that’s what America has come to today then so be it. If the internet is no longer the last bastion for free communication and speech, if we rescind our rights to privacy and offer up all journal entries and emails to be databased by the federal government then so be it.
If these small minded people can’t see where they are going with this then I suggest we petition for V-chips in their computers, activate the parental controls, only allow Neopets.com to appear on their screen [because nickelodeon can bee too raunchy at times and cartoon network is the work of the devil] because they OBVIOUSLY can’t look at a rating and at a warning and say to themselves *drool* Mubby I shouldn’t reed dis *drool*
Once they are locked away in happy Care Bears internet land with their pastel wallpapers and Rainbow Brite theme music then maybe the rest of us can read our fanfic, cuss, swear, drink, smoke, have sex [perhaps even outside of wedlock] and put the Bacchae to shame.
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Date: 2006-05-17 09:32 pm (UTC)stealuse it?(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-17 09:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-17 10:03 pm (UTC)Next question, would you have any objection to being added to my flist?
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Date: 2006-05-17 10:05 pm (UTC)I'm nowhere near as entertaining in here as I am on
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Date: 2006-05-18 12:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-18 08:21 am (UTC)Ah well, I suppose there are worse things.
Not that I can think of them right now. It's too fucking hot. *melts*