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15 years ago
Cub art is banned. Great job, guys! Go hog wild!
FA's administration even gets to take the blame for it entirely out of their hands and lay it at the feet of AlertPay. Sharp! That means nobody gets to take any responsibility for anything! It's the FA way.
People are rejoicing in the streets. The deluge of celebratory GIFs in the usual places is substantial. They think furry just got a little bit safer, a little bit less creepy. Unfortunately I have some disappointing news for these people.
The unfortunate truth of the matter is that the cub enthusiasts or whatever are not furrydumb's greatest enemy. Drawings of children in sexual situations are vile, but they are also drawings, and drawings by themselves are harmless. Whether or not the people who create or consume these drawings are also harmless is something that can only be determined on an individual basis. Whatever stupid fantasy someone beats off to or draws is not necessarily connected to what someone is capable of doing in the real world.
The reason all of the online payment houses have allegedly refused to touch FA is because people have actually gone to jail over this underage cartoon smut bullshit. Both in Canada AND the US.
There have been several obscenity convictions dumped on people who had the basic fucking human decency and self-restraint to keep their fucked-up fantasies on paper. And they got brooms broken off in their asses for it.
Google the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Read Neil Gaiman's essay titled "Why Defend Freedom of Icky Speech?".
FA has basically decided to hide behind recent unfortunate precedents in obscenity law. Not the best thing to do, seeing as how obscenity laws have no place in a free society. Furry owes it's very existence to the relaxation of obscenity laws, in fact.
I also feel the need to remind everyone that actual, and I mean actual, REAL furry pedophiles are both rare and very, very difficult to detect. Alan Panda didn't exactly have an FA full of cubporn, Crassus was only really noticed when he was quickly forced into hiding by Perverted Justice and absolutely nobody* saw Frank Gembeck coming. There's also scores and scores that have shown up through the MUCK scene, so many that at one point nobody really bat an eye if a 30+ -year-old dude hooked up with a 16/17-year-old dude.
The real thing is usually pretty smart about who they come out to. They are competent about hiding, destroying and covering up evidence. The amount of crossover with the ageplay/cub/diaper fetishist scene is shockingly small, for two very good reasons:
1. Most of the people who are into cub shit or whatever would never touch a real kid and know that any association with someone who would would be extremely dangerous for them.
2. Most real pedophiles, the ones not involved in zany fucked-up advocacy groups like NAMBLA, would prefer not to draw any attention to themselves. Any hints of even fantasizing about criminal activities would be extremely counter-productive for them.
Going after the real thing takes work. Hard work. Real work. If you want to do that work, Perverted Justice is, as they say, right over there.
There's no doubt that there are more real pedophiles hiding out in furry than just the ones we've seen. Banning cub porn will do nothing to even slow them down.
So stop celebrating; you've lost quite a bit and gained absolutely jack shit in return.
*(I am just now hearing unconfirmed rumors to the contrary.)
FA's administration even gets to take the blame for it entirely out of their hands and lay it at the feet of AlertPay. Sharp! That means nobody gets to take any responsibility for anything! It's the FA way.
People are rejoicing in the streets. The deluge of celebratory GIFs in the usual places is substantial. They think furry just got a little bit safer, a little bit less creepy. Unfortunately I have some disappointing news for these people.
The unfortunate truth of the matter is that the cub enthusiasts or whatever are not furrydumb's greatest enemy. Drawings of children in sexual situations are vile, but they are also drawings, and drawings by themselves are harmless. Whether or not the people who create or consume these drawings are also harmless is something that can only be determined on an individual basis. Whatever stupid fantasy someone beats off to or draws is not necessarily connected to what someone is capable of doing in the real world.
The reason all of the online payment houses have allegedly refused to touch FA is because people have actually gone to jail over this underage cartoon smut bullshit. Both in Canada AND the US.
There have been several obscenity convictions dumped on people who had the basic fucking human decency and self-restraint to keep their fucked-up fantasies on paper. And they got brooms broken off in their asses for it.
Google the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Read Neil Gaiman's essay titled "Why Defend Freedom of Icky Speech?".
FA has basically decided to hide behind recent unfortunate precedents in obscenity law. Not the best thing to do, seeing as how obscenity laws have no place in a free society. Furry owes it's very existence to the relaxation of obscenity laws, in fact.
I also feel the need to remind everyone that actual, and I mean actual, REAL furry pedophiles are both rare and very, very difficult to detect. Alan Panda didn't exactly have an FA full of cubporn, Crassus was only really noticed when he was quickly forced into hiding by Perverted Justice and absolutely nobody* saw Frank Gembeck coming. There's also scores and scores that have shown up through the MUCK scene, so many that at one point nobody really bat an eye if a 30+ -year-old dude hooked up with a 16/17-year-old dude.
The real thing is usually pretty smart about who they come out to. They are competent about hiding, destroying and covering up evidence. The amount of crossover with the ageplay/cub/diaper fetishist scene is shockingly small, for two very good reasons:
1. Most of the people who are into cub shit or whatever would never touch a real kid and know that any association with someone who would would be extremely dangerous for them.
2. Most real pedophiles, the ones not involved in zany fucked-up advocacy groups like NAMBLA, would prefer not to draw any attention to themselves. Any hints of even fantasizing about criminal activities would be extremely counter-productive for them.
Going after the real thing takes work. Hard work. Real work. If you want to do that work, Perverted Justice is, as they say, right over there.
There's no doubt that there are more real pedophiles hiding out in furry than just the ones we've seen. Banning cub porn will do nothing to even slow them down.
So stop celebrating; you've lost quite a bit and gained absolutely jack shit in return.
*(I am just now hearing unconfirmed rumors to the contrary.)
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