*sigh*

[potentiality_26]

So first there was a panic about how FOSTA/SESTA was going to get fanworks banned (here's the AO3 write up on the subject), and now I see people talking about how Microsoft's new TOS could mean the same thing, and I'm just... so tired right now.

I just looked into alternative email sites to outlook on a whim and I found that pretty much all of them had the same TOS.  Like if you really think you're going to get terminated because of AO3's review messages or because you used "fuck" in an email, I'm not sure there are really any other options.

As far as I can tell, it's just typical corporate base covering, but the paranoia I've seen on tumblr has been pretty incredible.

Have a lot of people here been hearing this stuff?  Are you worried and/or trying to do anything about it?
  

Comments

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

I am not too concerned over it honestly. As of now it's not going to affect fanworks. However, I'm going to update my fic commission page to note that I won't write anything NC-17. Hadn't heard anything about emails.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

That's a good solution to the FOSTA/SESTA thing!

Basically the email issue is that under Microsoft's new TOS (starting this May) "offensive language" and porn related stuff will banned on their platforms, including Outlook (the email service I use), Skype, and Office 360. According to Microsoft, they won't be trawling through every single person's data to look for violations, but if they receive a complaint they'll be able to use to it to boot people.

It simply isn't feasible for them to get rid of every single person who might be in defiance of this rule because... well, that would be nearly everyone, wouldn't it? But anyway people on tumblr have been talking about how we need to use new email services (I guess there are also problems with gmail this way) and find alternatives to Word, and all kinds of stuff.

[verdande-mi.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard anything about this, but tumblr has a tendency to get very loud and people following something said without checking if it is true.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

Yep, this is one of the biggest issues with Tumblr as a whole, which is most end up believing everything they read without checking the sources or doing their own research to see whether what they're reading is true or not, thus creating a mass panic when there is no need for one or blowing things completely out of proportion to the point where information is skewed beyond belief.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

That's definitely true!

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Yes, very true :)

[chamilet]

None of this kerfuffle ever comes to anything. We're still here on LJ, after all. I'm not worried.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

That's true! The panic over LJ's new TOS was very similar to this one, and obviously nothing came of it.