Now it may not be safe to *link* to content from LiveJournal
News via metafandom: rydra_wong reports that a member of LiveJournal's Abuse Team has stated that linking to offsite material that LiveJournal considers to be a violation of its terms of service can get you suspended. In other words, if you link to a story on your own Website, and LiveJournal considers that story to violate its rules, it will suspend your journal "in most situations."
LiveJournal's Abuse Team has been known to misinterpret official policy. However, if true, this is a new policy, because just a couple of months ago, LiveJournal refused to shut down a comm that was persistently linking to pirated e-books, because the e-books were hosted offsite.
Update, August 9: violet_quill received a response to a support request that echoed the above advisement by LiveJournal. elychari believes this has been part of LiveJournal's Terms of Service all along.
LiveJournal's Abuse Team has been known to misinterpret official policy. However, if true, this is a new policy, because just a couple of months ago, LiveJournal refused to shut down a comm that was persistently linking to pirated e-books, because the e-books were hosted offsite.
Update, August 9: violet_quill received a response to a support request that echoed the above advisement by LiveJournal. elychari believes this has been part of LiveJournal's Terms of Service all along.