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  1. PokePotter1 Sat 13 Sep 2025 04:49AM UTC

    Hence why I asked for modifying the terms of service-I'm well aware that you are allowed to have the account, as long as it's not mentioned here-that's what I want to change-to straight prohibiting even having the account at those sites.

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    1. soupurr Sat 13 Sep 2025 05:17AM UTC

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      It's crystal clear what you meant, PokePotter1 :) Personally, I don't think people who openly support JK Rowling in 2025 are people who have a nuanced understanding of why that would be a bad change to the TOS of the Organization for Transformative Works' Archive of Our Own.

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      1. PokePotter1 Sat 13 Sep 2025 05:31AM UTC

        I don't support Rowling-I more believe that usernames shouldn't be censorable-but I do believe AO3 should ban the works of J.K Rowling from being posted and mass delete any fanfic which is based on her works or uses her characters.

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        1. soupurr Sat 13 Sep 2025 05:34AM UTC

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          I don't believe that, and I don't think that would be a good change for the Archive either. AO3 is better than FFnet/Wattpad/Dreamwidth etc because it does not do that crap.

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          1. PokePotter1 Sat 13 Sep 2025 05:35AM UTC

            Well, maybe they should consider banning fandoms that are essentially hate speech-that's all Rowling has ever written.

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            1. soupurr Sat 13 Sep 2025 05:36AM UTC

              Cat DJing a pizza in space

              That would be antithetical to the OTW's mission of putting the user's choice first, PokePotter1 :)

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              1. PokePotter1 Sat 13 Sep 2025 05:37AM UTC

                The OTW needs to rethink their mission then-fandoms that are hate speech should not be platformed anywhere.

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                1. soupurr Sat 13 Sep 2025 05:39AM UTC

                  Cat DJing a pizza in space

                  I think you need to rethink what hate speech and platforms actually are.

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            3. BSplendens Sat 13 Sep 2025 02:59PM UTC

              A close-up photo of a stalk full of tiny orange flowers.

              A great deal of her work is not in fact hate speech. It's normal speech with bigotry sprinkled in. Describing, for example, a store where magical letter-carrying owls are sold is not actually hate speech. Neither is a guy talking about the magical power of love. She's a terrible person, but her taking visible support of her work as support for her views doesn't actually mean that literally every single word she's ever written is in itself awful.
              (Not least because she wasn't fully down the bigotry rabbit hole when she wrote a lot of her earlier books.)

              Also, the purpose of an archive is not to go "hm, no, a bad person wrote this original work so you can't write fanfic of it", and even vaguely beginning to try to enforce that rule would be impossible due to requiring a unanimous decision about whether every single possible fandom springs from a work written by someone awful. Beyond the fact that not every author makes themself known for anyone to be able to tell if they're bigoted, there'd be a whole lot of cases of "well, this author's writing has some bits of bigotry in it, but they're not overly hateful, so does this count?" popping up.

              If you really want to help defend people, you might want to find a better use of your time and effort. Maybe, IDK- try to get retailers to stop carrying Harry Potter merch, if you want something JK-Rowling focused? Something that actually gets her the money she's using to fund harmful initiatives, y'know.

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