from the bottom of page 33 of the relevant e621 forum thread.
Hal Greaves: "Ookay so since we are starting up this godwins law nonsense I am going to say this thread has ran its course and will be locking it. There was no reason to get this ridiculous and you were all warned already. Do not make additional threads on this topic.
The OP will be updated with relevant information as it comes in. Stay tuned."
from NotMeNotYou's OP post (edited by Hal Greaves): "Thank you for your understanding, as this was not an easy decision for us to make"
the standard corpo "F YOU" line.
everything about this situation has been shady af with the staff intentionally being as vague and obscure as possible while refusing to give ANY clarification or transparency on why they did this and lying about it being a political thing.
and i'm pretty sure the reason they did give people advanced warning about this happening is the exact same as back when they made the "no patreon" rule change: money AND so that people wouldn't be able to rush the site and rescue the content being purged. that was an intentional decision the staff made and it was NOT a difficult one.
this whole situation is because of Fing money. not politics, MONEY!
politics..."contentious content"...that's just the BS smoke screen.
i have zero doubt something like this will happen again in the future and there will be no advance warning then as well.
it's not a slippery slope. it's a sheer cliff we're being kicked off of. again and again and again.
as for the staff's suggestion of taking this up with lawmakers...there's a thread about that now with some great points including how company money beats politics and how the...90% majority in the US barely even touches the wealth of the top 10%.
they made this rule change and did this purge for money and we have no say in the matter and there's nothing stopping them from doing it again in the future.
also, e621 isn't an archive and never was one from the start. an archive does not have a freaking takedown request system as the defeats the very purpose of archival to begin with. it's a glorified curated art museum while the permanent booru (just recently learned of that when it was mentioned in the thread) IS an ACTUAL archive.
i am HAPPY to have been permabanned from e621 years ago and proudly take that as an accomplishment seeing how far the site and its staff have fallen. 6 years on the site, having made the account in 2011, only to be permabanned when they did the patreon blindside rule change and for refusing to be woke.
they even turned against their prime rule of TWYS after that by introducing lore tags.
this purge is a huge loss but should also be a sign that such content needs to be posted somewhere that won't do something like this. cause e6 is compromised and is no longer a secure place to upload any content. likely only a matter of time till cub is on the chopping block there.
well, i saw this coming a mile away.
from the bottom of page 33 of the relevant e621 forum thread.
Hal Greaves: "Ookay so since we are starting up this godwins law nonsense I am going to say this thread has ran its course and will be locking it. There was no reason to get this ridiculous and you were all warned already. Do not make additional threads on this topic.
The OP will be updated with relevant information as it comes in. Stay tuned."
from NotMeNotYou's OP post (edited by Hal Greaves): "Thank you for your understanding, as this was not an easy decision for us to make"
the standard corpo "F YOU" line.
everything about this situation has been shady af with the staff intentionally being as vague and obscure as possible while refusing to give ANY clarification or transparency on why they did this and lying about it being a political thing.
and i'm pretty sure the reason they did give people advanced warning about this happening is the exact same as back when they made the "no patreon" rule change: money AND so that people wouldn't be able to rush the site and rescue the content being purged. that was an intentional decision the staff made and it was NOT a difficult one.
this whole situation is because of Fing money. not politics, MONEY!
politics..."contentious content"...that's just the BS smoke screen.
i have zero doubt something like this will happen again in the future and there will be no advance warning then as well.
it's not a slippery slope. it's a sheer cliff we're being kicked off of. again and again and again.
as for the staff's suggestion of taking this up with lawmakers...there's a thread about that now with some great points including how company money beats politics and how the...90% majority in the US barely even touches the wealth of the top 10%.
they made this rule change and did this purge for money and we have no say in the matter and there's nothing stopping them from doing it again in the future.
also, e621 isn't an archive and never was one from the start. an archive does not have a freaking takedown request system as the defeats the very purpose of archival to begin with. it's a glorified curated art museum while the permanent booru (just recently learned of that when it was mentioned in the thread) IS an ACTUAL archive.
i am HAPPY to have been permabanned from e621 years ago and proudly take that as an accomplishment seeing how far the site and its staff have fallen. 6 years on the site, having made the account in 2011, only to be permabanned when they did the patreon blindside rule change and for refusing to be woke.
they even turned against their prime rule of TWYS after that by introducing lore tags.
this purge is a huge loss but should also be a sign that such content needs to be posted somewhere that won't do something like this. cause e6 is compromised and is no longer a secure place to upload any content. likely only a matter of time till cub is on the chopping block there.