Two ships enter! One ship leaves!
Courtesy of a kind mousey on wank_report, and also of my flist, we have Bleach wank!

Over on BleachAsylum, Bleach fandom's own personal Thunderdome, the mods make a new rule about linking to things in signatures. Apparently, the forum users have a long history of linking to inflammatory ship essays in their sigs to snipe at the other side (the most famous one being called "The Lust Arc = IchiHime FAIL", so you can probably see where this is heading), so the mods finally stepped up and made this rule:

19. No links in signatures to sites that bash forum members/mods/Bleach pairings or anything that BA members could more than likely find offensive (especially in case of shipping, this includes shipping essays etc). Yes you may be mature enough not to click and read such sites but others aren't and too much of a big issue is being made out of this. To save anyone anymore problems we are just banning this from BA.

Seems easy enough to follow, right? So naturally, quite a few people have run afoul of this new rule!

The first cries of oppression go up on bleachness, _debbiechan_'s personal fanwork community (for reference, it's listed as being geared towards IshiHime, but most posts revolve around IchiRuki and occasionally UlquiHime). Highlights include calling the internet lawyers, 'did you know I'm a BNF?', rallying the troops, and this comment about Freud and the 'wretched special snowflakes' in the IchiHime fandom. It also seems that debbiechan is not happy that people are putting her comm in the same category as FLOL, the locked IchiHime forum (among other things).

Next up, we have someone named yulieana, who had a bit of a run-in with the BA mods over this unfair new rule herself. Herein, we have a massive entitlement complex, Godwin's Law, and more cries of censorship and oppression. But really, her entire LJ is a barrel of laughs, since it seems like all she ever posts about is how much she really, really hates the IchiHime pairing. EDIT: OH NOES, bahleeted! Anyone catch a screencap? Apparently, the people who were posting their sympathy in the entry are now hanging her out to dry on BA, too. Edit^2: Oh, never mind - she's right back to crying about censorship again. I'm screencapping this one, since we lost the beauty of the first one to the ether. :( Edit^3: Thank you, galateus! The beautiful original is gloriously saved for posterity! Edit^4: And Yulie is now banned from BA! But that's okay, because F_W is stalking her and she's famous now! :D

And finally, there's a very wordy entry here about the evils of censorship in regards to message board signatures.

If there's more to this, I haven't seen it yet, but more is guaranteed to trickle in, since it seems like half the fandom is in an uproar over it.