Please Do Not Sign This Petition If You Are Not A UK Citizen With A UK Valid Postcode. If You Are Not

Please do not sign this petition if you are not a UK citizen with a UK valid postcode. If you are not a UK citizen please only spread awareness. False votes will nullify the petition and we will have to start over.

Part of the reason petitions like the original are so dangerous is because they rapidly become a gateway to further bigotry and legislation. They will set a precedent that will be difficult to overturn. Prevention is always, always more effective.

this is so so important to me and mine, and I'm asking you to Do Something so I'll respect your time and keep it brief

in the UK, if 100k sign a a government petition it will be brought to Parliament and debated. y'all know this country is suffering from some 80s-style bigotry right now, and this is one symptom: almost 200k fuckholes have come together to force the government to discuss whether it is 'appropriate' to tell children that queer people exist. this is a big symbolic victory for them. and i am burning with fury.

please, if you're from the UK, sign this counter-petition so they can at least see how much of a minority they are. simply put, the attempt to put these bastards in their place isn't gathering enough steam. there are barely 2000 more signatures now than there were this morning (27th January 2023), and that isn't enough. i refuse to let these people feel even a moment of victory or satisfaction. please help.

the hell? i’d say that’s relevant info lmfao 🤣

OP did not mention, at all, anywhere in their post or posts prior that their actual reason for calling out the user was because they're a known, real-life pedophile and a current danger with an accessible, public platform. They only mentioned it after I told them callout posts based on the proship-vs-antiship argument result in an influx of harassment.

"Block this user because they're proship" =/= "block this user because they're a known, real-life pedophile and an active danger."

OP made a callout post based on one thing, then in response to me telling them its a well-intentioned but bad idea, changed their entire basis of the callout.

I have no issue with bringing active pedophiles to public attention. My sole issue and the current nature of the discussion is the fact that OP said one thing, got offended I opposed it, then said something completely, vastly different to defend their original action.

Does that clarify the issue?

Imagine this:

You live in a town. There is a park that allows both people and dogs. You live in this town and decide dogs should not be allowed at the park. You complain and push and get dogs banned from the park.

The town builds another park for the dogs. Now there is a dog park and a people park. You see the dog park and think it looks better than the people park. You, a person who neither owns a dog nor likes dogs, begins to use the dog park.

That's okay. The dog owners don't mind sharing their park. Its a nice park. Its definitely better than the people park.

You like the dog park better, but you don't like the dogs, so you tell the dog owners they're not allowed to go there anymore. They're not welcome. Its a dog park, but you personally don't like dogs, so they're not allowed to bring their dogs here anymore. You start harassing the dog owners and trying to bully them out of the park.

"Just go to a different park!" you yell at them. "Go build your own park if you want to bring your dogs in!" you cry.

You are an anti. The dogs are works of fiction. The park is AO3. Your perspective is as ridiculous as the above anecdote sounds. AO3's entire existence was founded on you encouraging sites like Wattpad to purge and ban fanfiction that didn't fit certain, bias-flexible criteria. AO3's core purpose is to host and preserve fanfiction.

If AO3 did not want that kind of fanfiction, it would not allow it. Simple. AO3 itself dictates that fanfiction has a place there. You cannot storm in and demand its not allowed to host it because you've finally realized sites like Wattpad fucking suck, and not just because of their content regulations.

You're a guest in AO3's park. Act like it. Don't like the rules? Their code is open-source. Build your own park.

I've been in a lot of fandoms, but I'll be honest there's never been a more spiteful, hateful, judgemental fandom than 9-1-1 for content creators.

And I'm not talking about the rightful attention brought to works that were, quite blatantly, plain ignorance or outright racism.

There's a literal poll going around at the moment trashing certain tropes and the comments/tags are horrific. Let people live. Let people write. Fanfiction should be freeing and fun and it doesn't have to be a direct reflection of canon. The haughty policing of 9-1-1 fanfiction has gotten to the point where the only fanfiction being produced is the same flat, bland, regurgitated styles, concepts and characterisations over and over again.

The limitations authors are being bullied to subscribe to or be publicly blasted and harassed online over are the death of fandom creativity. Its the first and only fandom I've been in there the actual fans themselves have been the reason I've left the fandom.

(Like literally one poll option is that a character is depicted as gay, not bisexual. I think that about sums up the mentality of the fandom.)

Information and action are the parents of change.

You cannot fight what you do not know. This is why the sharing of accurate, blatant information is so important. This is the true value of freedom of speech. This is why we fight for unblocked social media platforms and independent press and for our private conversations to be protected.

You can't act if you don't have the information. How can you challenge something you don't even know about? How can you fight for the correct side, the correct outcome, if you don't understand it and know what, exactly, you have to fight for and whom you should be fighting?

You need information in order to take action. And you need information and action in order to make a change.

no it literally doesn’t when the person in question is supporting a pedo??? get a grip lol why do u care more about being pro ship than anti pedophilia. telling

I think this is a definitive place to end the discussion. You're being deliberately obtuse to anything I'm saying, likely because you're offended I had the audacity to call you out in the first place. Which is understandable, but unfortunate. However I do stand by my point, as you stand by yours.

(To summarise, you made a proship callout, I said you shouldn't, you immediately switched up to saying you were warning people of something completely different to what you actually said, I'm resolute in saying that's not what you said in the first place, you're resolute in saying they're the same thing.)

Thank you though for providing a discussion I hope is enlightening upon reflection. I'm not sure if its day or night in your time, so have a pleasant one either way.

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