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The NYT says:
So either FF.net has changed its policies, or once again the "pervy hobbit fancier" meme has taken over reality. ( I could do the whole "I do not think that word means what you think it means," but I doubt the NYT writer actually thinks that FF.net stories are pornographic; rather, the NYT writer likely has not read FF.net stories.) It's like saying "Mitt Romney's book appeared in a bookstore that also carries steamy romances!" except that the combination of fans + internet (+ crazy politics) precludes rational analysis. I'm not surprised the Romney campaign perceives this as an error, but I wish the NYT didn't propagate this nonsense.
Still, the Romney campaign had not expected its banners to appear on FanFiction.net,whose users have seen thousands of “Romney for President” ads while using the site to write their own plots about their favorite fictional characters — or read the work of others, including pornographic scenes between Harry Potter and Hermione Granger.
So either FF.net has changed its policies, or once again the "pervy hobbit fancier" meme has taken over reality. ( I could do the whole "I do not think that word means what you think it means," but I doubt the NYT writer actually thinks that FF.net stories are pornographic; rather, the NYT writer likely has not read FF.net stories.) It's like saying "Mitt Romney's book appeared in a bookstore that also carries steamy romances!" except that the combination of fans + internet (+ crazy politics) precludes rational analysis. I'm not surprised the Romney campaign perceives this as an error, but I wish the NYT didn't propagate this nonsense.
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