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Today's Little Yellow Bus Award goes to fandom_scruples, a dubious little organization dedicated to making fandom safe for kids. But that's not the point of this post; I am neither condemning nor celebrating their cause and y'all can have whatever opinion you want on the issue, I don't care.

The thing is, they've created a Black List. The authors on that Black List have been asked to lock down their fic so it's inaccessible to minors. The repercussions? A boycott.

A boycott. They won't read or review the work of any author whose name appears on their list. Do they honestly think that will stop a given author from writing fic? My gut says no, that fic is often written for the author's own pleasure and as such can exist in a vacuum. There are no real damages that can be sustained by any of the authors as a result of such a boycott. As such, the whole whoderah is an idiotic wankfest of gigantic proportions that succeeds only in letting a bunch of chest-thumping yahoos stomp loudly and complain.

As wafflelips and I discussed yesterday, people really are stupid.

Climb on the bus, kiddies.