Regarding the new policy
2 years ago
Yup, I saw it.
I mean, I don't like cubs / loli's / shota's / 100 million year vampire elves that just happen to look like toddlers
But it looks like a much bigger blanket ban, up to incredible leeway on subjective judgement, which could end up covering my art as well.
I like cute, small, petit characters, often stylized too, think Fidget from Dust: AET.
So it could mean that unless I purposely make them "overly adult"/"aged up", it could get me in trouble.
...
And you know, so be it.
If my art is too "spicy" for FA, I'll take it elsewhere.
I am not going to forcefully change what I enjoy to placate a barely functional shit-show of a site that I can't even browse due to a lack of a blacklist.
You can find me on other sites anyway:
- https://inkbunny.net/Mancoin
- https://mancoin.sofurry.com/
- https://www.weasyl.com/~mancoin
- https://twitter.com/Foxyverse
I usually upload my work onto e621 as well
Just in case I get hit with a nuke ;D
I mean, I don't like cubs / loli's / shota's / 100 million year vampire elves that just happen to look like toddlers
But it looks like a much bigger blanket ban, up to incredible leeway on subjective judgement, which could end up covering my art as well.
I like cute, small, petit characters, often stylized too, think Fidget from Dust: AET.
So it could mean that unless I purposely make them "overly adult"/"aged up", it could get me in trouble.
...
And you know, so be it.
If my art is too "spicy" for FA, I'll take it elsewhere.
I am not going to forcefully change what I enjoy to placate a barely functional shit-show of a site that I can't even browse due to a lack of a blacklist.
You can find me on other sites anyway:
- https://inkbunny.net/Mancoin
- https://mancoin.sofurry.com/
- https://www.weasyl.com/~mancoin
- https://twitter.com/Foxyverse
I usually upload my work onto e621 as well
Just in case I get hit with a nuke ;D
here
Thank you for the other links! I created a Weasyl account a few months ago and the security/privacy settings are DECADES ahead of FA. Lack of activity aside, I very much like the site. Glad to see you're there!
Sending you follows elsewhere cause of this
"Now you've come out with a new book. Capitalist Punishment: How Wall Street uses your money to create a country you didn't vote for. What's that mean?"
"In one way it's a really narrow niche issue, but in another way a really fundamental issue. Which is the rise of ESG and stakeholder capitalism in capital markets."
"ESG is Environmental, Social, and Governance."
"Yes, it's a non grammatical amalgamation."
"Sounds good."
"I mean, it sounds fine. It's three letters amalgamated together. It's designed to sound boring for a reason. So what's going on is there is a range of agendas espoused by one end of the political spectrum. Saying that we need to cut carbon emissions to fight climate change, that we need to use racial quotas in the boardrooms to make up for our past sins of slavery and systemic racism in the United States. But the public doesn't want to vote for a lot of those policies. I have to admit I'm part of the public that would not vote for those policies. So what the government realised is if we can't get it done through the front door, we'll just use the private sector through the back door to advance those same objectives. So what's happened in this country is that the largest financial institutions, let's just take the three largest asset managers: Black Rock, Sate Street, and Vanguard. They've aggregated the money of everyday citizens."
"Pension money..."
"Pension money, 401K accounts, brokerage accounts, the money of everyday citizens to advance these one sided progressive political agendas, environmental agendas, social agendas. That's what they call them, Environmental, Social, and Governance, that most of those everyday Americans do not agree with and which crucially do not advance their best financial interests. That's a breach of fiduciary duty."
"Most Americans agree that we should have a clean environment and we should be socially kind."
"Well, I think that they agree with that in our body politic, but we've got to sort that out where every person's voice and vote counts equally in deciding how we get there. What they don't want is their retirement dollars to be used to tell a company to adopt an agenda that makes that company less successful at delivering profit, which is why they were invested in the stock market or in those companies in the first place. So we have different mechanisms to do different things in our country. We have a beautiful system set up to say capitalism is a space where we make things. We provide products and services for people who need them. It's the best known system to mankind to lift people up from poverty. That's great, and then we've got this constitutional republic. Where we have a system for sorting out our political differences to decide how we, the people, are governed. We set up as we, the people, a system to do it, but what this stakeholder capitalism trend says is that actually the work of the constitutional republic is now done through the back door, through corporate boardrooms instead.
The dirty little trick at the heart of it is that they're using your money, our money, to actually do it. In many cases, without people even knowing it and so a big part of why I wrote that book was knowledge is the first step to empowerment. People ought to at least know how their money is being used, then they can actually be free to make the choice of whether they actually want it used that way."
"And you started your own investment fund that won't do that."
"Yeah, it's an investment firm. Strive: Asset Management. Started is last year, center of Ohio."
John Stossel interview with Vivek Ramaswamy
Though I can understand where there coming from, and at least FA has a good chance to get better. At least they're no dA. XD Since they actually listen. Good luck elsewhere. Though I hope I can still see you here. ;-;
But I wouldn't get mad at FA. They're not the bastards that forced action like this.