I'm personally 100% against all things boycott and petition of FFn but still found this interesting:
The Book Burning That Wasn't: Thousands of Works of Fiction Destroyed and No One Pays Attention
(Also, is it becoming obvious I do little but click Twitter links all day?)
What got to me most was this:
As authors they have very little right to their work. The real anger seems to come from the enforcement of ostensibly black and white rules in a world governed by grey areas.
These unpaid authors are at the mercy of the sites willing to house their work and as such must adhere to the lines drawn in the very murky sand of copyright law. Some of these authors spent months writing and editing novel length works to then have them deleted entirely, as if they were something with no artistic or cultural worth; artefacts that either follow the rules or don't.
Because I'd agree that's where a lot of the frustration comes in here. It's pretty much impossible to deny that the majority of the fics pulled broke some rule or another—arbitrary or not—but for over 60,000 works to just disappear? All those hours, all that work, all that creativity, and it seems like the world couldn't care less? I don't blame FFn in any way for enforcing their rules as a private site, but when you take a step back and view it as a statement about our cultural worth?
Ugh. Depressing.
Thoughts, discussion, gifs of Robert Downey Jr. Get in here and make my day, campers.