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[mewbirb]

I've just now been thinking about how callout posts have changed since I started seeing them.

They used to be like "This person is horrible and I demand that everyone shun them, because I don't want to admit that I communicated wrong with them!"  Now they're more like "This person draws porn I don't like!  Clearly the solution is to meticulously organize that porn so I can link to each one while screaming at everyone why they shouldn't look at it and ignoring how this action can encourage minors to look at it!"

Minors know they're not supposed to look at porn, but if they're inclined to, they will no matter what.  And when you slap the links right onto their dashes and get them into the kind of crowd that thinks it's cool to dig through porn with the excuse of having callout material, WELL... what are you really, honestly expecting them to do with that?

And people use the excuse of "callouts help people know who to avoid" well... I want to avoid people who think they're justified, so I guess that's not ENTIRELY wrong.

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[sodium_amytal]

And also like.... if a callout post claims someone's a pedophile because of drawing underage characters, and the post links to said pieces.... isn't the OP guilty of distributing CP? Since they clearly seem to think it's "illegal," why do they assume the feds wouldn't crack down on them too for distributing it? And if it IS illegal, why not cut out the middleman and just report the OP to law enforcement?

Answer: it's all a popularity contest with loaded words as weapons.

And yeah, if an anti's claiming to want to protect minors while in the same breath also linking them to porn they shouldn't be viewing anyway, they're doing more harm than good. Which is, of course, the anti credo.

[kalium]

This may be inaccurate as it's just something I've heard, but I have overheard accounts of antis sending people the real thing. Not shippy fics or art, actual CP.

Which if true is just more proof they don't care about protecting anyone.

To be fair about reporting I have seen a post circulating with info on how to report AO3 to the FBI... I just don't know what they think is going to happen.

[mewbirb]

"Let's get the FBI on this fanfiction website because people write stories I don't want to read! What do you mean that distracts them from busting real actual child abusers?"