When a fiction archivist was arrested and sentenced to 40 years imprisonment last year, the censorship of fan fiction was always going to come next. Don't say we didn't warn you.
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RT @horse_disk
Ao3 has been blocked in Germany. We're in moral panic hell 🙃!
Ao3 was allegedly indexed by Bundesprüfstelle (an organization "responsible for examining and censoring media works suspected to be harmful to young people") for distribution of "…
https://twitter.com/horse_disk/status/1611829224024993792
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RT @horse_disk
CORRECTION: Ao3 is blocked from being DISPLAYED ON GOOGLE, but is still accessible via direct links! The site itself is still up—it just doesn't appear in Google searches. This is still a deeply worrying development, but at least German users won't need a VPN to access the site! https://twitter.com/horse_disk/status/1611829224024993792
https://twitter.com/horse_disk/status/1611849324430000128
