Why I Am Disapointed in LiveJournal/An Open Letter to LJ/6Apart

[heidi8]

I'm disapointed in LiveJournal. No, not LJAbuse or the staffers there - I'm sure they did what they were told - but in LiveJournal itself, and in SixApart.

Why?

Because they're not as gutsy as DIGG.

Earlier this month, I posted about DIGG's decision to allow posts containing a key code used to crack DVD encryption, and I'm going to repost

Comments

[ancarett]

Hear, hear! I'm pretty sure that some staffers are coming to their desks about now, completely unaware of the chaos that is roiling across LJ as a result of their ill-conceived actions of yesterday. If only they had someone there on their law team who was better versed in the relevant issues (as well as someone in Customer Service who was a bit more thoughtful in dealing with the fiction and other discussion communities that were tarred with the same brush).

[semicolin]

This is a great post, and I totally agree -- I wish more people were like you and actually took the time to research this. Hear, hear.

[ginsu]

Well, it won't surprise you to hear we're on the same side. I believe in free speech, and I particularly believe in free speech as it pertains to women publishing homemade porn.

However, in response to this:

if DIGG is willing to see that yes, they'd be able to avoid a courtroom battle over links to the key code if they just removed all the thousands of links to said code, but choose to take a different approach and choose to stand up for their users, then I don't understand why LiveJournal and SixApart are so afraid

At this stage, Digg was acting exactly like LiveJournal -- blindly and aggressively deleting the hell out of everything it deemed a threat. It wasn't really that they chose to stand up for their users, it was that they were forced to because it was the lesser of two evils

[sabaceanbabe]

Really, I only have one word:

BRAVA!

[tiferet]

What I don't understand is why they deleted my RP journals, which had disclaimers to the effect that they were not the journals of real human beings, but rather villains, in an RPG. VILLAINS