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▲Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics (xtramagazine.com)
GaryBluto 3 minutes ago [-]
I am absolutely confident that the people who created this comic would not be happy with everything that isn't illegal being allowed on the websites and social medias they frequent.
PostOnce 12 minutes ago [-]
The "ads" for other articles in the middle of the comic are jarring, disruptive, and keep making me wonder if that was it but then you scroll way down and there's more
Black616Angel 20 minutes ago [-]
Good thing, it's only webcomics! Would be a shame if everyone f*cking self-censored online and wrote stupid sh|t like "unalive" or "seggs".
Ygg2 15 minutes ago [-]
~~YouTube~~ Google ads and its advertisers have been a plague upon Video essay creators.
kotaKat 5 minutes ago [-]
The official COPS YouTube channel posts episodes now with even the tamest word of all - "narcotics" - bleeped and all the paraphernalia is blurred.

I didn't know you could get arrested for possessing a half ounce of blur, but here we are in 2026.

gambiting 14 minutes ago [-]
It's more TikTok and Instagram which aggressively filter these words no matter the context.
Ygg2 10 minutes ago [-]
Ok, but why? Because advertising wants maximum audience. Which means you can't show horrors of war or else Nestle won't allow you to show their product banner down.
atomicfiredoll 20 minutes ago [-]
Am I misunderstanding this? Has their website also been suspended?

I was initially going to check and see if they had any presence on the Fediverse. While it doesn't solve the payment processor issues at the moment, I think web comics could find an audience there with less threat of censorship, albeit a smaller one.

thaumasiotes 1 minutes ago [-]
The headline doesn't really describe the content. Their website is fine.
Black616Angel 18 minutes ago [-]
Meh, the audience comes with the content.

If only every third NSFW-artist from tumble migrated into the fediverse, the audience would follow and maybe even lead some of the other artists to join as well.

atomicfiredoll 13 minutes ago [-]
That's my thought too. As the comic illustrates, artists have had to community hop before. It feels like there's some potential for a good match, despite occasional technical challenges like instances winding down.
Ekaros 17 minutes ago [-]
Isn't this exactly what certain webcomic authors wanted? The platforms are showing them the door. As they say if it is not government making the rules it is not censorship. It is something that some webcomic authors fully wanted and have actively supported politically.
allarm 17 minutes ago [-]
I wonder how soon someone will leave a comment here saying something like, “Aaactually, this isn’t censorship.”
Black616Angel 13 minutes ago [-]
The comment you mean was posted the minute, your comment was posted.

Coincidence? I think not.

gambiting 13 minutes ago [-]
One minute after your comment, as it turns out.
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