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Revelation34 posted...

My response still applies if it's just about Patreon or not. There's nothing wrong with that kind of content if it's fictional and Patreon is wrong to remove it.

It matters a great deal if you're asking about me or Patreon.

Patreon has a legitimate business decision to make about removing it that has nothing to do with the content in question. It could be people drawing playful puppy art, and if that had an unusual degree of fraudulent transactions, the credit card companies would have issues with Patreon hosting playful puppy artists. There's certainly nothing wrong with playful puppy drawings, but if hosting it is a rocky business decision, then whether or not to host it is something to think about: you can stand for an absolutist position on free expression and risk throwing under the bus all of your other creators most of whom are not playful puppy artists, or you cut loose a small number of creators. That's the position Patreon is in.

The fact that I personally find it hard to give a fuck about the creators that did get cut loose is a totally different discussion that your response does not apply equally to at all. On a personal level, I don't care about shutting down the material they're making, but neither am I overly concerned about their difficulty in making a business of it. There's nothing about my principles of free expression that compels a business to handle material they've chosen not to, and there's nothing about my principles of free expression that all creative niches be economically viable. If the decision were mine, free and clear of business concerns, and left simply to my own judgment, I would tend to keep them on the platform because individual personal tastes shouldn't define what other people see.
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