Fuck it, Banned Book Sale!

[lb_lee]

Rogan: All in the Family got suspended from itch.io. Apparently according to the new Terms of Service, it's considered child pornography. Yes, my memoir about child sexual abuse. I'm fighting it, but a lot of artists are getting kicked off.

If you've been putting off downloading stuff off itch.io, now is the time to HURRY YOUR ASS UP. They look to be steam-cleaning the site after a scrubsquad of purityfucker Australians squealed at payment processors.

This is the email I got:

Hello LB Lee,

Access to your page has been suspended due to violations of our Terms of Service.

The following page is affected:

https://lb-lee.itch.io/all-in-the-family-series

If you visit your project's page you'll see that we've disabled access to the content and provided a link to the notice.

If you have any questions please reply to this email.

We've reproduced the entire notice below this email.

Thanks
Your account is in violation of our adult content policy listed here:

https://itch.io/docs/creators/faq#is-adult-content-allowed

We don't allow hosting content that includes sexualized images or videos of real-life humans. Fictional, illustrated, and rendered content is generally fine, assuming it's legal. AI-generated imagery that is designed to resemble photographic content of real people is not allowed. Content glorifying sexual violence is not permitted. Depictions of minors, minor-presenting, or suggested minors in a sexual context are not allowed and will result in account suspension.

If you plan to collect money for your content, then you must adhere to the acceptable use policy of all respective payment processors that your account utilizes.

Payment Processor Policies:

PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/acceptableuse-full
Stripe: https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses
Payoneer: https://www.payoneer.com/legal/restricted-businesses/

To respond, reply to this email.

I was READY for them coming for my actual porn; I EXPECTED them to come for THAT. But it fucking infuriates me to be painted as a child pornographer OF MYSELF. Nobody used to call me a child-rape apologist until the last few years, and now it's happened enough to lose me both my housing in 2023 and now my bestselling ebook! APPARENTLY NOW I AM MOLESTING MYSELF RETROACTIVELY, and knowing that it's probably just a robot algorithm paying me this insult doesn't help. The algorithm was made by people. It was designed by people. I'm still getting called a child-molester by people, just now it's through carelessness and by proxy so they can pretend their hands are clean.

And hey, if you're like, "Wow, LB, that sure sucks that your #1 bestselling book got muzzled because of some purity wankers in Australia, I want to give you money," then thanks, friend! You're the fucking best! You can send me donations through my Paypal button or have fun buying my various wares. If you've been putting off buying my actual porn or sex shit (Multi Orgasmic, Infinity Smashed: Found Wanting, Rutless, and Coming In or Staying Out) now is the time!

In fact, you know what, for the next week, I'm going to be throwing a special offer. If you buy a paper copy of AllFam or any of the sexy things listed above, I will sign it and put a sticker on it. Your options include sparkles, rainbows, happy cute smiling things, and cute little sayings. Donate extra $ to either me or the Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective, and I'll print you off a trans porn sticker to slap up wherever you want.

LET'S DO THIS.

EDIT: moved my ebooks to Payhip. Please buy them there; I dunno if I'm ever getting my money out of itch.io now, even for the totally NON-banned titles.

Comments

[wolffyluna]

Oh my god that suck so supremely, I am so sorry that happened!

I feel the distinct urge to apologise for my country folk.

[lb_lee]

I don't think any American gets to ask any country to apologize to us ever. :p

[sinistmer]

Ugh, that is such b.s.! I'm so sick of it.

[lb_lee]

You and me both! Here’s hoping I can make this work for me, at least.

What kind of sticker would you like?

[numb3r_5ev3n]

I'm sorry. There's a lot of censorship going on right now that feels like "we're banning this description of child abuse so that kids don't have the language to describe what's happening to them," and aaaraghhh.

[lb_lee]

At least I’m in good company: Joan Nestle, Phoebe Gloeckner, Ida Craddock...

[(Anonymous)]

Fuck. I was afraid of this happening but the fact they didn't get your other stuff yet is just. Fuck I'm mad.
honestly all in the fam helped me come to terms with my own stuff going on so this is just. god forbid we let children realize being treated like shit isn't normal and that they're human beings!

sorry for the rambling. this stuff just gets me bad haha.

-Sploosh

[lb_lee]

I’m glad AllFam did its job helping you out! That’s what it’s for!

We’ve been planning for this sorta thing for years. I just expected them to come for my porn, not play the “no, the REAL child abuse is you TALKING about it” game.

[(Anonymous)]

yea...honestly i think that's the part that's actually genuinely pissing me off the most here.
Like, if it got taken down with the actual porn then like. Yea sure, it sucks, I'm mad
But this? This is just. Puritarian Bullshit and only serves to make children more vulnerable to this kind of abuse by hiding it.

anyways looks like I'm gonna be going on a downloading binge to get shit preserved. lord have mercy on my hard drive.
(...I say that but I have an external storage device so. yknow.)

-Sploosh

[lb_lee]

Mori: I mean, you can argue that’s the point; Lee Cicuta has a whole essay about the weaponization of groomer and how “Sexual assault is a rhetorical placeholder for [the right], it signifies their outrage at outside influence on vulnerable people they see as their property,” namely, their children. Child abuse is acceptable, as long as its done by the kids’ proper owners, which means yes, discussions of how child abuse is bad is seen as morally unacceptable if done by outsiders, and they call it “grooming” because... well, sexual assault of kids is a symbol to them, not a REALITY.

Now, likely my banning was done by roboalgorithm but still, that’s the underlying logic of “everything tagged incest is clearly incest porn and thus bad and unacceptable.”

[(Anonymous)]

fuck i pushed the wrong button and replied to the wrong thing but uh. here. https://lb-lee.dreamwidth.org/1459267.html?thread=9280579#cmt9280579

[multiple_altiple]

This is so dumb I'm kinda at a loss for words

What a crazy Scooby-Doo villain reveal, that you were your own molester all along

[lb_lee]

Mori: Lee Cicuta has a whole essay about the weaponization of groomer and how “Sexual assault is a rhetorical placeholder for [the right], it signifies their outrage at outside influence on vulnerable people they see as their property,” namely, their children. Child abuse is acceptable, as long as its done by the kids’ proper owners, which means yes, discussions of how child abuse is bad is seen as morally unacceptable if done by outsiders, and they call it “grooming” because... well, sexual assault of kids is a symbol to them, not a REALITY.

So yes, they’d call me a groomer because I am interfering with those property rights. I’m not a victim or survivor to them, because I am outside those relationships and thus a nonentity.

[nevanna]

I'm sorry this happened to you. It's appallingly unfair. I posted on my own blog about your sale!

[nightforest]

UGH. I read about this and it's infuriating. I've been meaning to grab Multi Orgasmic for ages, so I'm going to jump on that now and donate some extra to you as well. I'm sorry this fucking nonsense happened to you.

[lb_lee]

Thank you! A horny trans sticker will get printed for you! :D

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god yea, that sums it up Exactly. Shit I should read that (probs when im in the right mindset tho cause when I say this makes me mad I mean like "spiral into the Horrors(tm)" mad. does that make any sense to anyone outside my brain? idk i'll find out lmao).

-Sploosh

[lb_lee]

Yeah, definitely leave it for a good day! Don't blast your brains out.

[acorn_squash]

Oh for fuck's sake.