The Fact That People In Australia Are Now Willingly Submitting Themselves To Government Censorship Over

the fact that people in australia are now willingly submitting themselves to government censorship over books because some book was a little gross to them is INSANE!!!

sure, that “daddy’s little toy” book was probably something i would never read and its okay to not like it, it’s okay to be disgusted by it. it was a little odd that a book like that was dedicated to her real child, i’ll admit that!! that was strange!! but to sit by and say it’s okay for the author to be arrested for something completely fictional and not even actually published yet and let it be LABELLED AS CSAM is one of the worst things i’ve heard in regards to books lately.

if fiction like that can be labeled as csam, the government there (and probably the governments of other countries that want to imitate it) now knows they can label any book or other fiction as ABUSE MATERIAL and arrest the authors and stop its distribution. and you know who that is going to attack? authors that made queer fiction with minor characters in it. or maybe even adult characters, since the people in DLT were both adults when they actually got together according to what i’ve heard.

of course, once that happens they’re going to start crying and whining about how that’s “not the kind of censorship they meant” and play victim, but it’s entirely their fault for celebrating and making it clear they are on the side of author suppression ! i even saw a tiktok comment say “reminder that censorship isn’t actually bad” and i was about ready to start tweaking.

another consequence of this is also going to inconvenience the government as well! i can predict child abuse tip lines are going to be filled with reports of books and fanfiction instead of actual abuse, and it’s going to be “justified” because one book was labeled csam.

censorship hurts everyone.

only real children can be abused.

words on a page cannot be abused or mistreated.