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e621 ruining everything again

by REDOUT

As you might have heard, e621 suddenly, unexpectedly and unilaterally decided to change their rules due to what they claim is a "changing political landscape" affecting their "business partners".

The changes consists of banning and retroactively deleting everything with young/underage humans or humanoids in a sexual context(similar to the rules you'd have here in InkBunny), and they've implemented this by using a bot to wipe absolutely everything that collected the human,-humanoid, young, loli, shota or similar tags, affecting some 45,000 pictures.

I don't think i need to explain how much of a clusterfuck this all is and how badly it's gone down, because for a large proportion of those deleted pics, the human wasn't young, or presented sexually, or even really a human. I can confirm several of my pics are gone, many of them undully so as they were of an anthro character fucking or just being next to a human male. I'm looking into whatever steps need to be taken to fix this but just so you know, double and triple check your personal back ups for art, a lot of the stuff that got wiped was sourceless and now essentially lost media. My drawings are thankfully still up in the /co/ booru or NG or other mirror sites, but if you can't find one you can let me know.

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Added:	5 months, 1 week ago 13 Jul 2024 06:44 CEST

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CoconutJoe

5 months, 1 week ago

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The burning of the library of Alexander except with morally gray pornography

worldf0x

5 months, 1 week ago

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Well this blows.
I will say, they have said that they're going through and reinstating things that were part of the mass deletion that shouldn't have been. So. There's that, I guess.
It's also somewhat unnerving that they've given no specifics about the changes in the "political and legal environment." Do they have FBI breathing down their necks? Or did they just decide on a whim? Cave to the whims of the puriteens?

FelicityLongis

5 months, 1 week ago

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@ worldf0x

They seem to be making a point to remain vague about the details. It doesn't seem that there was any actual legal issues. At best it was a matter of their hosting service not being cool with the content and threatening to pull the plug. Administration seems at least kinda adamant that it wasn't a problem with advertisers though. Honestly it's hard to say which is worse; the lack of any warning prior to acting on this, or the fact that they admins have gone out of their way to not address questions in a clear and straightforward manner.

worldf0x

5 months, 1 week ago

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@ FelicityLongis

"It's wishy washy because it's the best we can offer. There is no single law we can point to as the tipping point, and while we were sitting pretty unaffected by most things, the same can't be said to a bunch of our business partners who did not appreciate the heat we attract.
And since we can't function in a vacuum we have had to adjust."
From the admin later in the thread. And it seems like they were put on a very tight time schedule, which was part of the reason for the slapdash nature of things.
As far as I know, all of the ads are community sourced, as no actual advertising agency would have them.

FelicityLongis

5 months, 1 week ago

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@ worldf0x

I'm well aware. I've been following the thread since it opened. The problem at this point is that they haven't really pointed to anything specific to justify this move. Just a lot of ambiguous statements that raise more questions than they answer. That and they've gone totally dark for the past few hours.

It's an absolute shitshow.

worldf0x

5 months, 1 week ago

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@ FelicityLongis

I think they have, though. Not in the top post (the one that matters to most people), alas, but their hosting service put the screws to them. It wasn't any law, it's the tightening grip of fascism in the united states, and the looming chance that a leathery orange despot will seize power and be beholden to no law other than their whim, and a supreme court who granted them that power changing whatever laws that displease them. It's the lack of law.

But yeah, it's a shitshow.

FelicityLongis

5 months, 1 week ago

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Edited 5 months, 1 week ago by Owner

FWIW I just posted for restoration of the last few images of yours which definitely don't violate the new policy. Shitty as all this has been, it at least seems like work is being done to restore what can be restored.

VernonDursley

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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They even nailed a whole lot of Midna stuff despite her being an adult with child bearing hips, this is complete bullshit. Thankfully a lot of the deleted material is still up on The Big Imageboard, so try searching for it there if it's not anywhere else.

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