DeviantArt account deletion

[adevyish]

My DeviantArt account has been deleted for reasons outlined here:

The newest and most blatant example of dA's skewed treatment of gay people is a new stamp by prosaix "Homophobe and Proud of It"

Try reporting it. You can't.

Why? Because tons of people have already tried and dA administrators have marked the case "invalid".

Their stock answer:
"Comment: Thank you for attempting to bring this deviation to the attention of the staff. Unfortunately this deviation does not meet the current definition for "Hate Art". It is important to remember that actual "Hate Art" expresses clearly racist ideals, such as the genocide or enslavement of a certain race or class of people. A work which simply expresses a dislike or negative opinion for a subject is not "Hate Art" regardless of how strong that opinion might be expressed, neither are deviations which you simply find offensive because the beliefs or opinions are the opposite of your own. Please review our FAQ entry on the subject of "Hate Art" available here [link] so that you can be more familiar with the official definition."

I will get to fixing the broken images caused by the account deletion eventually.

Comments

[nanpa.livejournal.com]

oh my gosh if that isn't considered 'hate art' then I don't know what is. That's absolutely ridiculous.

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

What.

[adevyish.livejournal.com]

I'm going to distract myself with Bleach and several hour-long speculative discussions about heaven, the Gotei 13, Isshin, Isshin, Isshin and Ryuuken...

[eolian-sprite.livejournal.com]

I just have to say your screen name is awesome, if it means what I think it means.


Also, wow, this is ridiculous. I never liked deviantart anyway, and will get around to deleting my account soon. :/

[trozman.livejournal.com]

Oh come on now, I know deviantart has a history of being anti-yaoi and all that, but calling THAT little stamp 'hate art' is a little extreme.

"I find the lifestyle of homosexual men abhorrent and unnatural and I am proud of it" doesn't quite have the same ring to it, but it clearly falls well within the realm of protected speech.

Especially if you look at the facts that
1) someone made an anti-semitic button and DeviantArt hasn't deleted it (so at least they're consistently pro-hate)
2) it was a remake of a stamp (http://gyno-kun.deviantart.com/art/homophobe-35443220?q=&qo=) made by a 15 year old kid with admittedly conservative views but in no way intended to promote hate in any fashion.

Gimme a shout when they make a stamp "FAG-BEATER AND PROUD OF IT"... until then, this is a total non-story (except for people who love drama and are overly sensitive).

[adevyish.livejournal.com]

If their canned response said something about free speech, I would have respected that. But instead it more or less says only racism is hate speech, and that is not ok with me. With their history of being anti-yaoi, plus how they deal with plagiarism (which is to say: they don't), I decided to quit. I just don't like them, so why not?