About
Fan Faction is an action-network dedicated to mobilizing convention attendees, convention staffers, cosplayers, artists, vendors, performers, voice actors, gamers, and anyone enjoying any fandom to effect change.
Outside of activism, Fan Faction will provide guidance and best practices for organizing people and problem-solving. These skills and more may be useful in rallying your own community for change, running a fan convention, or planning a social meetup.
Scope
We care about many things, but we would spread ourselves too thinly and burn out or simply lose if we try to solve everything at once.
Change starts locally. In our inception, we will be laser-focused on achieving strategic victories on issues of public interest relevant to fandom spaces local to Seattle, King County, and Washington State. For issues of nation-wide or global scale, we may act on a local component.
While there are many topics that are important to the broader fandom communities, we are still human and limited by what a small team is able to manage at once. However, if you like what we do and want to replicate the same for your local community where we do not have the resources, please reach out at info@fanfaction.org. We will try to provide information within our capacity so you can scale out change where we cannot.
Our Values
As of this moment, our organization has identified 2 main areas which the fandom communities resonate with for taking action:
- Privacy
- Human Rights and Dignity
We describe these briefly on this page and will dive more deeply into each in separate posts.
Privacy
Privacy encompasses a wide range of issues affecting fan communities including, but not limited to:
- Privacy from generative 'AI' and non-consensual intimate imagery.
We vehemently reject generative 'AI' technologies that rely on scraping images, text, audio, and video from its creators without their enthusiastic and informed consent. Generative 'AI' also violates privacy when its users prompt for non-consensual intimate imagery, the leading usage of the technology. - Privacy of gender, sexuality, and personally identifiable information (PII) online and offline.
Several states have anti-'obscenity' laws and 25 states have enacted age-verification laws for accessing 'obscene' content which is purposely vaguely-defined. These laws target LGBTQ+ people by pointing to any content about gender and sexuality as 'obscene' and either banning them or requiring ID. These laws do not work to achieve safety for anyone and have only been the cause of leaking personally identifiable information. - Privacy to own and operate tools.
Washington State House Bill 2321 would require every 3D printer be equipped with hardware that notifies the government of what is printed before it can be printed. This would brick cosplayers' non-connected printers overnight.
We seek the passage of a privacy law that is at the same level or greater than GDPR in the European Union.