The Anti-Censorship DNP Pledge

And what if this is what most people want? Do you have access to some metric no one else does that indicates most people oppose this? Because your opinion on what the majority of users desire doesn’t make it true.

There are absolutely people here who have wanted something like this for a considerably long time.

There are numerous people who did who already left the site because they were tired of the harassment they got from the “fascists” here.

• either the staff are failing at their jobs of preventing harrassment, which CANNOT be amended via stricter rules,  
• or these artists were not actually harrassed and are calling “presence of fascists who don’t even care about said artists on site” or “said fascists commenting on their pics in completely innocuous ways without even brigading” said harrassment, which also cannot be amended via stricter rules because someone this emotionally vulnerable (and likely targetted by a hateful cult to exploit said vulnerability for indoctrination) needs a RL shrink.  

And if the site is as beholden to the users as you assert, are they not obligated to address these issues? To make it actually live up to their primary rule of “Be excellent to each other” by disallowing things either actively promoting an ideology that killed millions, or trivializing the horrors done by those who followed it?

I will give you one point. They could have discussed the change more with the users before implementing it.

The fact that they are adding two more is not the travesty you and others here seem to want it to be.

this will make joining alternative boorus, which are being built, much grander as they will get art not able to be posted on Derpibooru

@Background Pony #FA7E

And what if this is what most people want? Do you have access to some metric no one else does that indicates most people oppose this? Because your opinion on what the majority of users desire doesn’t make it true.

There are far more complaints about the censorship than praise of the censorship.

@Background Pony #FA7E

There are absolutely people here who have wanted something like this for a considerably long time.

While this is not relevant to the topic, they’re making a massive mistake and censorship will end up happening to something they enjoy.

@Background Pony #FA7E

I will give you one point. They could have discussed the change more with the users before implementing it.

Allegedly “they” have discussed the change with other staff. To extreme opposition. Discussing it with the users would not actually change anything, long political arguments or not.

@Background Pony #FA7E

The fact that they are adding two more is not the travesty you and others here seem to want it to be.

It is not about “adding two more”. It’s about “going back on their word, twice: making the ban on non-positive portrayals of one group permanent instead of temporary as promised, and explicitly banning the thing after repeatedly assuring everyone, including right after said temporary ban, that said thing will never be banned; banning something that was already banned by the rules as-is; and explicitly banning non-negative portrayals of another group”.
The problem isn’t “more restrictions”. The problem is that these restrictions are eminently politically motivated, extremely one-sided, and hypocritical; they are arbitrary censorship; the problem is that head-staff are bringing their PERSONAL political stance into the rules of COLLECTIVE site, that it only leads to ruin be damned.

More than half the people claiming they want this censorship are classified as background ponies, who’s to say these aren’t people hating MLP to begin with?