A furry website is temporarily closed, maybe permanently, due to new restrictions on free speech. It's almost like free speech is an important principle for the furry fandom, especially given it's mostly non-physical nature. If only someone had brought that sort of fact to people's attention earlier.
Of course, Pounced is primarily about meeting people. However all sites where you can communicate with one another can be used for those purposes. In the grand scheme of things, furry sites are small fish. There is potentially the risk that other furry sites will need to cut down on allowing user communication if the risk becomes too great, especially since we know there is a sexual side to the fandom which does translate to real life. Or, maybe furry sites will just no longer operate out of the US.
Edit: Yeah, technically not a restriction in the same sense of being prevented from saying something. Going after hosts of speech is pernicious in a different sense. By putting them at risk, they will then restrict what can be said or what opportunities there are to say something which is then leading to a shrinking of the area for free speech.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
A furry website is temporarily closed, maybe permanently, due to new restrictions on free speech. It's almost like free speech is an important principle for the furry fandom, especially given it's mostly non-physical nature. If only someone had brought that sort of fact to people's attention earlier.
Of course, Pounced is primarily about meeting people. However all sites where you can communicate with one another can be used for those purposes. In the grand scheme of things, furry sites are small fish. There is potentially the risk that other furry sites will need to cut down on allowing user communication if the risk becomes too great, especially since we know there is a sexual side to the fandom which does translate to real life. Or, maybe furry sites will just no longer operate out of the US.
Edit: Yeah, technically not a restriction in the same sense of being prevented from saying something. Going after hosts of speech is pernicious in a different sense. By putting them at risk, they will then restrict what can be said or what opportunities there are to say something which is then leading to a shrinking of the area for free speech.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~