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There is clear evidence of an agenda at play in Dzuk's controversial text, "on the BLOCKchain blocklist advisory,"[0] where Dzuk attempts to systemically oppress #pleroma developers and power posters by conveniently finding ways to categorize them all as
(a ) western chauvinists / neo-nazis
(b ) sex offenders / sexual predators
(c ) gamers
(d ) anti-furry
The irony in Dzuk's attack on rorykon is that in doing so, he actually is letting real child abusers off the hook by lowering them to the same level as the Japanese artists who depict the human form in a gamut of sizes. By conflating rorykon, which is typically a very small percentage of the Japanese art shared on Japanese art servers by Japanese artists, with child abuse media, recordings of child abuse/torture produced by rapists for profit, Dzuk is also being a Western chauvinist and is engaging in culture policing. Keep in mind that Dzuk is a white, American male.
Later on in his text, Dzuk calls out a small percentage of Pleroma users for being anti-furry. Dzuk, by your logic, isn't the furry fandom a way of normalizing the sexual abuse of animals? Why are Pleroma users morally in the wrong for criticizing practices and cultures that they believe contribute to the normalization of sex crimes when you were calling them out for doing what you believe to be the same thing?
Notice that -- conveniently -- there is literally no mention of switter, a Mastodon instance used to facilitate sex trafficking -- an actual crime (unlike sharing furry OR rorykon art). In an article that advocates blocking specific instances for imaginary "legal reasons," there is absolutely NO mention of a network that facilitates ACTUALLY ILLEGAL SEX CRIMES. (What happened with Craigslist and Backpage? )
(Also -- ironically -- poor @dtluna was publicly shamed for calling out neoliberal war criminal Clinton's well-documented crimes against humanity. What happened in Waco Texas is not a "conspiracy theory" but rather a well-documented dark stain on America's history pages) [1]
We demand that @dzuk self-crit, take his block lists[2] offline, and apologize to admins of named instances / targeted individuals. For those who have been harmed financially by any actions taken by those influenced by @dzuk's fiery & misleading language, (such as Japanese artists, many of whom DON'T draw rorykon) we demand reparations.
[0] - http://telegra.ph/Instances-to-silencesuspend-on-Mastodon-06-23
[1] - https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/fanning-flames-waco
[2] - https://github.com/dzuk-mutant/blockchain/blob/master/blockchain.json