\nOn Twitter, Izzy reports that Archive of Our Own is now blocked in China:\n<\/p>\n
\nTHREAD<\/a>: Sad day for Chinese internet users: Ao3, archive of our own, was reportedly blocked on Feb 29, 2020. I can\u2019t begin to describe its importance to its Chinese users. It\u2019s not mainstream like douban, but in China it\u2018s a refuge for literature created by and for women.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nCensorship in China is capricious at the best of times, but according to Izzy, people suspect this was the result of a deliberate campaign<\/a> by fans of the Chinese idol Xiao Zhan, who has a fair bit of fic written about him. Not so much that they wanted to take AO3 offline, as rather that the offending stories would be removed and\/or the writers punished. However, you can protest as much as you want<\/a> that nobody ever wanted AO3 to be blocked and that saying that these fans caused it is a lie, but you have to take the consequences of your actions. If you complain to the Chinese censors about a website, get it on their radar, what did you expect would happen? They can’t force AO# to actually remove these stories, nor are they known for their subtlety handling a ‘problem’. This was always going to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Twitter, Izzy reports that Archive of Our Own is now blocked in China: THREAD: Sad day for Chinese internet users: Ao3, archive of our own, was reportedly blocked on Feb 29, 2020. I can\u2019t begin to describe its importance to its Chinese users. It\u2019s not mainstream like douban, but in China it\u2018s a refuge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1818,1960],"tags":[2692,2691],"class_list":["post-9010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom-2","category-harassment","tag-ao3","tag-archive-of-our-own"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9011,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions\/9011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}