Well, it seems that a lot of you are butt hurt over the loss of E621, where as others are glad. I'd like to state in case, a few points that have been mentioned throughout the various arguments that have taken place in this post, as it were. Several of you have begun arguments over "cartoons are not real", well, that's a given, more or less, a "no shit, Captain Obvious". See, the part those people fail to understand, is that, despite the fact that it's a cartoon, it does not change the illegality of the art. The artist decided to create such a picture, and for that, they could too, under-go legal action. "Child Pornography" is ILLEGAL, whether it is cartoon, or real. It depicts a minor, in the nude, or being sexually harassed, seeing as no minor could -in the laws eyes- think for themselves when it came to sexual matters; they feel as if they could be pressured or raped. It's clear that if you post any type of child porn, whether it revolves around humans, animals or aliens- zombies even!, it's going to get reported, and/or taken down. The site publishers of E621 obviously didn't take that into consideration. They didn't think of the fact that, even though it's a cartoon, as I've explained before, it's still child pornography, and if not even that, it's still a provocative image implying that a child is as okay as an adult during sexual intercourse, when they are in fact, not quite okay.
As for the discussion revolving around whether these archives are good or bad, or whatever, it's as simple as this; archives, are archives. Deal with it. I mean, you go to websites like Pornhub, or Redtube, you're going to obviously see a lot of images or videos of things posted on other websites; ffs, they even have water marks! Point is; whether they have permission or not, it's one extra source to have the images archived on. E621 was one of those archives which people could go to, rather than meticulously searching all over the internet for what they wanted to see. It's as simple as entering the site, using the search engine to find a particular subject, and start browsing, much opposed to, looking all over the web for something that may not even be published- let alone, even exist.
We have archives, such as E621, Gelbooru, Safebooru, etc. all for the convenience of such things! What would we do without them? What would we have without them? Well, not a lot, I don't think. I mean if you think about it, most of your images in your "fap folder", or most of the general ideas you get, come from these archive-sites which hold all the images, stories, etc. that you could ever imagine. More-over, websites like FurAffinity aren't as popular as things such as the aforementioned websites, not only that, but the aforementioned archives are much easier to navigate; easier to navigate than FA, easier to navigate than the internet as a whole. Google, Photobucket, Yahoo! Search, none of it suffices for how well these archives perform in the delivery of the images we all seek.
As a closing statement, I'd like to say...
The trolls have won, not just a victory, but the pure anarchy is more for them; you guys seriously need to take into consideration the idea of shutting up and accepting the facts.
Well, it seems that a lot of you are butt hurt over the loss of E621, where as others are glad. I'd like to state in case, a few points that have been mentioned throughout the various arguments that have taken place in this post, as it were. Several of you have begun arguments over "cartoons are not real", well, that's a given, more or less, a "no shit, Captain Obvious". See, the part those people fail to understand, is that, despite the fact that it's a cartoon, it does not change the illegality of the art. The artist decided to create such a picture, and for that, they could too, under-go legal action. "Child Pornography" is ILLEGAL, whether it is cartoon, or real. It depicts a minor, in the nude, or being sexually harassed, seeing as no minor could -in the laws eyes- think for themselves when it came to sexual matters; they feel as if they could be pressured or raped. It's clear that if you post any type of child porn, whether it revolves around humans, animals or aliens- zombies even!, it's going to get reported, and/or taken down. The site publishers of E621 obviously didn't take that into consideration. They didn't think of the fact that, even though it's a cartoon, as I've explained before, it's still child pornography, and if not even that, it's still a provocative image implying that a child is as okay as an adult during sexual intercourse, when they are in fact, not quite okay.
As for the discussion revolving around whether these archives are good or bad, or whatever, it's as simple as this; archives, are archives. Deal with it. I mean, you go to websites like Pornhub, or Redtube, you're going to obviously see a lot of images or videos of things posted on other websites; ffs, they even have water marks! Point is; whether they have permission or not, it's one extra source to have the images archived on. E621 was one of those archives which people could go to, rather than meticulously searching all over the internet for what they wanted to see. It's as simple as entering the site, using the search engine to find a particular subject, and start browsing, much opposed to, looking all over the web for something that may not even be published- let alone, even exist.
We have archives, such as E621, Gelbooru, Safebooru, etc. all for the convenience of such things! What would we do without them? What would we have without them? Well, not a lot, I don't think. I mean if you think about it, most of your images in your "fap folder", or most of the general ideas you get, come from these archive-sites which hold all the images, stories, etc. that you could ever imagine. More-over, websites like FurAffinity aren't as popular as things such as the aforementioned websites, not only that, but the aforementioned archives are much easier to navigate; easier to navigate than FA, easier to navigate than the internet as a whole. Google, Photobucket, Yahoo! Search, none of it suffices for how well these archives perform in the delivery of the images we all seek.
As a closing statement, I'd like to say...
The trolls have won, not just a victory, but the pure anarchy is more for them; you guys seriously need to take into consideration the idea of shutting up and accepting the facts.