It pains me to have to meet on such harsh terms, but here we are.
In case you haven't heard about Net Neutrality, it's what keeps the internet a free exchange of ideas. Nobody will bother you unless you do something illegal; the private businesses control what goes on each website. Don't like someone's business, go somewhere else. That's how I found Inkbunny.
So guess what the government wants to get rid of.
For some reason, some government jerk thinks it'd be a good idea to get rid of Net Neutrality, and turn things over to the FCC. Yup, those guys, who, over the last few years, have...
-Forbade and still forbid Lisa Simpson to be depicted nude on the show
-Balked at and censored an episode where Marge Simpson got very nude
-Wouldn't even allow male characters on The Simpsons to show their butts, a ban which lasted for 11 seasons
-Censored Dee Dee's entire torso with a massive plant while allowing Dexter to get by with just a leaf on the groin
-Forced Dee Dee to be hidden in silhouette during a sequence in Dexter's episode that was almost exactly the same, except Dexter got to bare all
-Would allow characters on The Powerpuff Girls to show much skin if they were 5 year old boys or 50 year old men, but not 5 year old girls once the show fell into their hands
-Let Henry's clothes disappear completely in KaBlam, but wouldn't allow June's to do the same
-Let Hank Hill's butt escape being blocked for a second, while keeping Peggy's completely hidden
-Forced Shizuka to take baths in her swimsuit
-Forced Ami to shower in her swimsuit
-Would allow Ami and Yumi to be sexualized, but not have even one humorous nude moment that wasn't covered with a chip bag
-Forced Dot Matrix's chest in Reboot to be simplified, only becoming defined when she left FCC control
-And had a reputation for being so uptight, they had a whole song dedicated to them on Family Guy over how terrible they were.
Needless to say, the internet falling under FCC control would be a bad thing. If people can get fired and blacklisted for their political beliefs over Facebook, imagine what that'd mean for some of us loli artists. Some of us would have to get our operations shut down at best, and get arrested at worst. I can already think of some big names who the FCC would shut down the minute they got power.
Not only that, but let's assume they don't do anything to us. We still have to deal with copyright. I guarantee a majority of us who do art based on popular characters do it because we didn't get much from the show. Fanartists can depict situations the show creators never would. However, once the FCC gains access to the net, they also answer to the major media companies in charge of those shows. Given how trigger-happy they are on YouTube for fanvids, imagine how they'd treat every bit of fanart they didn't like. Needless to say, sites like Inkbunny and even DeviantArt would be destroyed completely.
If you want the internet to survive in its current form, e-mail your congressional representative and tell them not to dissolve Net Neutrality. You owe it to you to keep the free exchange of ideas free. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and holding the entire internet gives you absolute power.
Good luck!
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