Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

the question is how much of Trump’s extraordinary incompetence and laziness will stymie the full reach and realization of it.

Ao3 frankly does not rank high enough on anyone’s agenda. There’s no money, no campaign donations, and not even the major studios with their bank accounts want to go after it. The biggest possible threat to Ao3 isn’t going to come from the White House. It’ll come from Disney, Amazon, Warner Brothers, and other Big Media citing the same old shit they use every time someone wants a fanwork ban; the possibility that someone might be taking a single unauthorized red cent from their pockets.

To be crass, the idea of a porn ban is one of those “I want a pony that farts glitter” ridiculous things Heritage Foundation (the people who actually wrote P2025) puts out every year that gets a bunch of wild press coverage and publicity (good for fundraising on both sides) but is laughed out the door because not even the Republicans want that kind of thing. They like their smut as much as the rest of us.

The US, no matter who gets elected, has very robust safeguards that, by design, make passing anything a slow, painful process because the people who set up the government knew that shitty people can and will get elected, and therefore made it really hard for any one person to fuck things up. We also have, as the very first thing in our Constitution, an up-front, plain language “did I stutter?!” rule about speech being protected, even if that speech is offensive, irreligious, or both. This was put in there because…well, the US is fifty states in a trench coat, and because insulting the ruler (no matter who the ruler is, and even if the ruler is God) was considered an absolute, no arguments right in America while it could get you jailed or killed elsewhere. Ao3 is classified as literature, and therefore would be classified as protected speech.

In theory, you could get something where Utah (very religious, conservative state) passes a law in their state to ban it, but then someone in California (where the tech companies are) sues to block the law, citing the First Amendment on the federal level, and it plays ping pong in the courts for the next decade until everyone forgets about it. Ao3 is not a big enough fish or generating enough outrage for anyone in the US government to give a damn. And since there’s no money involved, there’s even less of a reason to give a damn.

Even in the worst case scenarios, Ao3 can do what a lot of webrings and file sharing websites did in the 1990s and 2000s and get a domain that is not in the US. Sweden was a popular place to get a domain for this kind of thing as their internet laws were much more loose than anywhere else. With VPN technology, that would bypass any kind of censorship.

retards (also known as MAGA)?