Demon Cam in the Space Silmarillion
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"...no submitting things to demonic curators to inspire them to be evil. Like, especially when he notices that the population of Valinor is alive and well, but even if he has other ideas."

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"Good one. Demonic curators are unlikely to summon his complete works, right?"

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"Unfortunately, demonic curators range from likely to do that to guaranteed to do that. Demonic curators love having everybody's complete works."

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"So at some point the fact you have a way to do minds is going to reach their attention. We could plant lots of evidence it's magic - I am honestly impressed Findekano even thought to be careful - "

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"I am impressed with his entire project," Cam says. "But while the idea that it's magic will deter some people from bothering to try, demons are sometimes bored and the test is not expensive for them."

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"It takes a lot of doing to read to and write from chips. Or do you think there's an even simpler way?"

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"There might be, or one of them could just have a few weeks to kill."

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He sighs. "Interdimensional travel's going to even more of a problem, if I can figure out how to do it. Demons can summon themselves it and go anywhere. And some might come here and lots will definitely go to Earth."

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"Yeah. But some will also go to Limbo. Limbo could use some demons. Of course, some of them will also go harass angels due to pointless racism."

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"Will pointless racism endure extended contact? It often doesn't."

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"Possibly not. Currently all the contact they get is completely blocking the Heaven/Hell concordances for any useful purpose so they can take it out on each other. They might get bored if they had more than a few hours every several years."

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"Does this have an origin in grievances or is it entirely an outlet for childish people to root for their tribe?"

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"It's really unclear how it started but it's sort of structurally impossible for there to be much grievance, what with the 'can't interact for more than a few hours every several years and in between all correspondence is one-way'. Both demons and angels get along great with Limboites and fairies - Limboites love demons, we send them the best care packages - but angels and demons don't get along, may have never gotten along - the conflict predates the invention of writing - and angels may be partially responsible for the mythical reputation of demons among live humans."

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"Though the difficulty of paying you would also explain it. I find it terribly entertaining that the people of my world have souls and no way to prevent demons from stealing them. Ah, I'll delay interdimensional travel while we think about that, but not much, some worlds might need us. It may in fact not be possible anyway."

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Nod nod.

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"Want to prohibit him from writing down creative ways to be evil in transmissible format, or just not deliberately getting their attention?"

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"Not deliberately getting their attention should suffice. It's not like people in my worldcluster aren't already plenty creative."

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"All right. I can't think of anything else at the moment; shall we return to it in a few hours with fresh ideas?"

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"Yeah, sounds like a plan."

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"All right. See you later. Thank you for bringing my son back."

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"You're welcome."

And in the interests of having fresh ideas Cam goes and does something unrelated: spies on the censorship discussions about the Hell Library on Valinor.

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Banned: sexual content. 

Banned; violence.

Banned; torture

Banned: antisocial behavior

Banned: violence

Banned: sexual content

Banned: criminal sexual behavior

Banned: disturbing content

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Yes, of course, but is there any commentary on these decisions?

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Lots of it! Some just notes the place in the media where the objectionable content was found, some cites specific local regulations, on the internet there's a ridiculously long debate over various kinds of sexual behavior in human media and whether humans even engage in it and whether that's relevant to the ban. Also whether it's safe to ban just a few episodes of a television show or whether people who enjoy it might be tempted to watch the banned episodes.

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...well, hopefully anyone who likes the first few seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer can also find a way to get ahold of the parts in which Willow's gay to find out how it ends.

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