allthingswhumpyandangsty answered:
the way I knew this was gonna be about Palestine the second I read “AO3 is no longer anti-censorship” and I was right 😌. anyway I have already talked about this here
AO3 did not remove works advocating for Palestine because these works advocated for Palestine.
AO3 removed works advocating for Palestine because these works violated the site’s terms of service. something you have to click “I agree” on when you first made your AO3 account.
and AO3’s terms of service already stated very clearly in the beginning that only transformative works are allowed on their site.
someone making a post about Palestine on AO3, where the work section of their post isn’t fanfic but a political statement, goes against the site’s terms of service. and so the work is rightfully removed.
someone mentioning donations (or anything that involves money) anywhere on their AO3 goes against the site’s terms of service. and so the work is rightfully removed.
you cannot use AO3 to ask for donations (or anything that involves money). you cannot use AO3 to make a political statement. you cannot use AO3 like a social media and vent about your day in the post section of your work. if you do any of these things, your content will rightfully get removed.
AO3 is for transformative works/fan-contents only. anything else goes against its rules, and therefore is removed. and no, it is not censorship, it is called “following the rules”, something everybody has to have clicked “agree” on when they created their AO3 accounts.
another thing I’d like to mention is that AO3, as a nonprofit organization and pretty much a library, cannot get involved in politics (other than their no censorship stance).
ALT
