Rant About a Couple Random Things

[soltian]

The nudity policy on DA is complete shit. I don't think I can tolerate it for very long. I want to DO something about it. Everyone, let me know if you're interested in perhaps forming a group protest. The censorship is killing me.

Other than that, 217 was the best chapter in a while. I'm extremely saddened by the nature of Kimimaro's death. It was affrontingly tragic, every detail of it made me ache with pity. The poor, poor boy. The GaaraLee was effin adorable though. Gaara: LETS GO FLY ON CLOUDS OF SAND TOGETHER!! Lee: *GIGGLE* OKAY!!

I need sleep.

Comments

[soltian.livejournal.com]

What annoys me with the new policies is the censorship on erotic and pornographic art, since I don't see why such things should be innappropriate if proper precautions (as previously provided by the site) are taken. I don't have any intention of forcing explicit material on people who don't want to see it, but I also don't like the feeling of being surpressed of what I'm allowed to share. It's ultimately up to the moderators of the site I know, what they choose to allow on it, but I am paying for my service and feel I should have an opinion in how I get to use it.
After reading through the thread I now just want more details on the legal issues at hand...I was unaware that there were any, and if there's nothing DA can do about it I know I'd take it better...I'm just not used to thinking of what I draw as a criminal act, and it still makes me rather angry.

(By the way, neither of you need to be concerned with spamming, this kind of discussion is very helpful to me.)

[croaky.livejournal.com]

Understand and feel the same. Must admit I really have no real clue about US law on this matter except for the basic ones about underaged models and child porn, but I have been told that regardless of laws, deviantART "never allowed explict material". Apparently they just forgot to highlight the paragraph in the rules or something. By "explict material" I assume they mean pornographic material. The problem is to define pornographic material from just erotic art. I'm guessing, from recent discussions etc, that the line is drawn by 'blatant show of sex, bodyfluids, etc'. Although porn can YES very much still be art, it is still a rather special and problematic form... I certainly wouldn't be surprised if there are laws regarding how you are allowed to distrubute it, really. Especially in the US. *chough*

Though I can see why DA don't want to ditribute porn. There are much nice and good porn on DA, but just think of all the g'damned "Here is me and my boyfriend fucking!" pictures that they would have to host if they did honestly allow everything. o.o;

Aw, i don't think you should worry about feeling like a criminal though, Soltian. Heh, as a private person you can always be plain art. The problem for deviantART is that they are big enough and circulate enough money wth their huge servers etc that they probably can be qualified as a sort of company. Hence why they suddenly have to watch their back for these things, either they like it or not.