Sic Semper Tyrannus

[davidkevin]

EDIT: I don't know the details, but insomnia has been unsuspended as of 7:43 p.m., CDT. -- D.

iceblink reports:

Mark's account insomnia has just been suspended without notice as a result of his efforts to determine who was behind some of the phony "sock puppet" accounts that have been used to post content to their sponsored communities. Some of the information he

Comments

[rly]

So I'm just going to assume based on the information here that insomnia posted somebody's personally identifying information and that that's against the rules so it's a justifiable suspension like pretty much every other one posted about in this community.

[davidkevin]

Not having seen the post for which insomnia was suspended, I don't know whether he did or not.

"Whois" information is public, not private, information, available to anyone on the web; on the other hand, the Abusive Team once reportedly threatened suspension of a user who posted information taken from a government website list of sex offenders that a another user was a convicted pedophile (the information was posted because the other user in question allegedly was about to have his thirteen-year-old "boyfriend" move in with him) so I guess they don't care if the information is public elsewhere or not.

[rly]

It doesn't matter if WHOIS information is public. You're not allowed posting anyone's IRL name or address or phone number or anything on LJ.

You can even get suspended for posting someone's screenname even if it's on their user info.

[datavortex]

That's fucking stupid.

[rly]

I got suspended for posting the old LJ office number even though the post had been deleted before anybody in a position to judge it's TOS compliance got to see it.

[schmuckythecat]

I was temporarily suspended (until I removed the post) for having a post about a person, but the name only RHYMED with their real name.

Yes, it's fucking stupid.

[davidkevin]

It's my direct personal experience that if the person posting your personal information has an "in" (or if you're on the "outs") with the Abusive Team, it will be allowed. Favorites are played as if everyone is still in junior high.

Put simply and without exaggeration, the "Abuse Team" is corrupt.

[rly]

You say this like it's something new and surprising.

[davidkevin]

[ shrugs ]

It is to some people, if not to thee and me.