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 (DIR) Post #Aa7whViYBMdkAzwm24 by Oozeman@freespeechextremist.com
       2023-09-25T13:39:09.158716Z
       
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       I adore the OTW, and AO3. They are an organization that has been upholding free speech in fanworks for the longest time--they allow anything, fanfiction involving real people, lolis, racism. It is all permitted under their policy as long as you aren't directly harassing other users. They have stuck by it despite some outcry from their users to ban this or that. Most other organizations especially ones that spawned from very liberal fanfiction circles would be perfectly fine banning racism because it wouldn't effect that many people. But not the OTW, they've stuck with it.It's not often talked about by free speech advocates, but the organization is pretty awesome. They're one of the few organizations of their like that I really admire because they strike all of my checkboxes for protecting freedom. They don't let themselves get pushed around by our draconian IP laws, they allow racism and extreme edginess that would stoke calls for deplatforming on any other site, they allow perverse fetish pornography that would be completely illegal in more cucked countries, and it's all done in the neutral spirit of archival. If it's legal, it's allowed.There's not a lot of people that are willing to go to bat for all of those things, but the few that are, are my favorite people in the world.